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Jul 9, 2025, 9:54 AM

Peace Is More Than a Word

Photo Credits: Sabine Sterk (AI)

PEACE. Such a small word, five letters, one syllable, but in Israel, it weighs more than mountains. It is written on posters, chanted in protests, whispered in prayers. Israeli's long for it. They speak of it with hope, with hesitation,...

Chaimae Bouazzaoui

Jul 4, 2025, 6:00 PM

An Iran Torn Between Iranny And Irony

President Trump’s most recent example of “Peace through strength” showed the world the true meaning of this epitome, by exposing the strong: Israel; and the very weak. Iran has long been feigning to have a “capable military”, a propaganda-salva...

Allen S. Maller

Jun 26, 2025, 7:17 PM

One Mahdi, Two Messiahs and Many Religious Leaders for Peace

On October 27, 1978, only five years after Egypt started the Yom Kippur War with a surprise attack on Israel, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin were named winners of the Nobel Peace Prize for their...

Jun 25, 2025, 2:37 PM

On Thursday June 12th, over 100 Israeli peace activists flew on a chartered flight from Ben-Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv to Charles De Gaule airport in Paris to participate in the Paris Call for the Two-State Solution, Regional Peace...

Jun 21, 2025, 3:23 PM

What does the news want?

If you truly think it’s good enough, you can watch the news. The news will tell you what to think. Then you can open Facebook on your phone and post about us. We’re thousands of miles away, but that’s...

Jun 18, 2025, 9:00 PM

We Stay When the Missiles Fly

Photo taken by the author in Jerusalem, Israel.

A Chickasaw-Israeli take on war, home and what it means to belong By the time you see the missiles, they’ve already been in the air for minutes. Long streaks arching across the night sky, some high and silent, others low...

Cate Rubenstein

Jun 11, 2025, 6:29 AM

Open Call for Allies: A Call to Arms.

I do not feel safe in the country (where) I was born. I do not feel safe at Jewish events, address kept secret til just before, then only given with confirmed RSVP, ID’s checked anyway by armed guards. Which is...

Allen S. Maller

Jun 10, 2025, 7:01 AM

Can Light and Peace Come Out Of Gaza?

Mediators are preparing for a possible cease-fire and hostage-release deal in Gaza that they believe will end the 20-month Israel-Hamas war. Israel issued a statement saying it appreciated the mediators’ efforts, but a statement from Hamas did not sound...

Elkana Bar Eitan

Jun 9, 2025, 11:39 AM

An open letter to Greta

An Israeli soldier offers activist Greta Thunberg water and a pastrami sandwich after the military intecepted and boarded the boat on which she and other activists were seeking to break Israel's blockade on Gaza, early on June 9, 2025. (Foreign Ministry)

You lost your way many years ago. Unfortunately, you now represent one of the worst terror groups in human history

Allen S. Maller

Jun 8, 2025, 2:33 PM

An Arabian Fossil Points to Makkah and Jerusalem

A fossil of a human finger bone found in Saudi Arabia, was recently dated to 88,000 years ago. If confirmed, the finding would be the first and earliest Homo sapiens fossil found on the Arabian Peninsula. Along with recent finds...

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