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Oct 11, 2026, 11:57 PM

Teardrops of Hope

With the third anniversary of Hamas’s October 7 invasion now passed, I find myself thinking about peace in Israel. The concept seems near obsolete. Yet, there I was last week harvesting olives in the West Bank with a group of...

Oct 11, 2026, 5:27 PM

When advocacy, rudeness and a lack of facts replaces evidence

There is nothing whatsoever wrong with being a passionate advocate for a political cause. There is, however, something very wrong with treating passion as a substitute for evidence, repetition of common derogatory tropes as a substitute for proof, and...

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...

Oct 11, 2026, 11:39 AM

Blogging for The Times of Israel Can Take You to Places You Never Imagined

Before the COVID-19 pandemic, I had never published anything in my life. My first publications came during the pandemic, when I began writing scientific opinion articles on subjects far removed from ophthalmology. As an ophthalmologist from Honduras, I wrote...

Oct 11, 2026, 1:12 AM

Peace Requires Justice. The Nobel Peace Prize Requires None

When Henry Kissinger, who oversaw devastating bombing campaigns in Vietnam, received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1973, two members of the Nobel Committee resigned in protest. When Yasser Arafat, leader of a terror organization, received it in 1994, another...

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...

Oct 9, 2026, 6:11 PM

Two Peoples, One Moral Standard

Part VII of a Seven-Part Series This series began with history but eventually arrived at a moral question. Christians did not create Zionism or the State of Israel, yet Christian restorationism, biblical interpretation, advocacy, and political networks belonged to the...

Oct 9, 2026, 8:43 AM

Gaza to Paris: How a Generation Learns to Protest

What does a Palestinian flag have to do with a French school that doesn't have enough teachers? Across France, teenagers have been blocking school entrances and taking to the streets, angry about overcrowded classrooms, missing teachers and deteriorating facilities. What...

Priyanka Chandel

Oct 8, 2026, 11:52 PM

Children of Israel-Gaza: War, Trauma & Healing

The third anniversary of 7 October 2023 arrives this week. On that day Hamas-led militants killed some 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and took 251 hostages, children among them. The last hostage was returned to Israel on 26 January 2026,...

Sagit Alkobi Fishman

Oct 7, 2026, 5:42 PM

October 7 Was Supposed to Complicate the Model

Every model simplifies reality. In physics, we treat bodies as point masses, ignore friction and imagine ideal gases that exist in no actual container. That is not a flaw. A model is useful precisely because it leaves part of...

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