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Oct 18, 2026, 2:00 PM

October 7 Exposed the Security Cost of Israel’s Settlements in the West Bank

Israeli security forces guard as Jews tour in the West Bank city of Hebron, on January 31, 2026. Photo by (Wisam Hashlamoun/FLASH90)

Israel built more than settlements in the West Bank. It built a standing military obligation, then sold that obligation as security. Successive governments also preserved Palestinian division and accommodated a Qatari-funded Hamas whose survival served Ankara and Tehran. October...

Sheldon Kirshner

Oct 17, 2026, 4:46 PM

Canada And The Palestinian Authority

Much to Canada's disappointment and disillusionment, Palestine Authority President Mahmoud Abbas recently postponed legislative and presidential elections, which were to be held on November 28 and early next year. Abbas, who has been the president of the PA since 2005,...

Oct 12, 2026, 7:10 PM

A Storm Alongside the Quiet

Can you hear all that Israeli election campaign hubbub about environmental protection? You’re not wrong: a deafening silence from those running for a seat in the Knesset (parliament). Others have not been so quiet. Already back in May more than...

Adam O. Goldstein

Oct 12, 2026, 12:00 AM

How (not) to award a Nobel Peace Prize: A satire in 4 acts

Nobel Peace Prize judgments vs what it actually means to make peace

For nearly four decades, I have practiced medicine, conducted research, reviewed scientific manuscripts, and taught students that evidence should precede conclusions. I have insisted that investigators disclose conflicts of interest, consider competing explanations, and remain willing to revise their...

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Oct 11, 2026, 4:30 PM

Palestinian Statehood Threatens Arab Stability

Arab governments must reverse their long-standing support for a Palestinian state. Historically, this so-called “statehood project” has fractured regional sovereignty from within, presenting a direct national security threat to the wider Levant and the Gulf. Palestinian political and military...

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Oct 10, 2026, 1:38 AM

Zionism = Racism: The West’s Useful Idiots

Slogans of destruction do not generate their own light; they survive entirely on the patronage of tyrannical regimes. The United Nations General Assembly proved this axiom on November 10, 1975, when 72 states—mobilized by Soviet Cold War machinations and...

Sep 22, 2026, 5:12 AM

Hands Off My Palestine

The Palestine Reclamation Project: Palestine Is Israel. Hands. Off. My. Palestine. Image © Ivan Bassov, 2026. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.

Reclaiming the Name That Exists Only Because Israel Does What is Palestine? The question seems straightforward. It isn’t. Ask different people, and you will get radically different answers. There is no Palestine. Palestine is Jordan. Palestine is Gaza and Judea and Samaria. Palestine is the State...

Sep 18, 2026, 5:18 AM

Israel must challenge rather than engage ‘pro-Palestine’ performance politics

The Macklemore battle presents a trap that pro-Israel activists have yet to escape Two options: Either stay silent as more and more celebrities accuse Israel of genocide in ever more prominent forums, and hope the tide will pass, or wield...

Elkana Bar Eitan

Sep 15, 2026, 12:38 AM

If We Could Only Be a Little More of What They Say We Are

My brother-in-law was murdered in the heart of Jerusalem. He was murdered because he was a Jew. Simple as that. Nehemia Lavi was 41 years old. A husband. A father of seven beautiful children. His oldest was only 14...

Sep 8, 2026, 8:21 PM

I worked at Britain’s embassy in Israel. The East Jerusalem consulate had to go

Photo of British Embassy Tel Aviv taken by Shlomo Kates.

Israel’s decision to shut the diplomatic post may look like retaliation, but it exposed a UK Mideast policy built on an untenable fiction

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