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Feb 23, 2026, 11:07 AM

The ‘day after’ deception that exploded in our faces

US President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meet at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, December 29, 2025. (Amos Ben-Gershom/GPO)

Netanyahu’s refusal to plan for Gaza’s future wasn’t a blunder — it was a bid to save his coalition. The cost? Lives, endless war and no political horizon

Feb 15, 2026, 4:58 PM

Israel’s Silent Crisis Part III: From Tactical Missions to Existential Questions

Israel’s Silent Crisis Part III: From Tactical Missions to Existential Questions From Operational to Existential In the early months of this war, soldiers asked operational questions. What is the timeline? What is the next mission? What is the intelligence? But as the months stretched into...

Tamar Adelstein

Jan 29, 2026, 4:58 PM

Yud Shevat: The Lubavitcher Rebbe’s Leadership in the Land of Israel

BS"D Yud Shevat 5786 - January 28, 2026 In 1992, on Yud Shevat, then Transportation Minister Moshe Katzav visited the Lubavitcher Rebbe by Sunday Dollars. After showering Katzav with special blessings, the Rebbe went on to raise “the strange and shocking rumor”...

Nov 16, 2025, 10:43 PM

An Absent State and Missing Questions

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By a strange twist of fate, one of my daughters is called after Hadar Goldin, the captured Israeli soldier whose body was recently returned by Hamas from Gaza after eleven years. In 2005, I was living in Cambridge, UK, commuting...

Nov 13, 2025, 9:51 AM

Between Gaza and Ankara, While Washington Watches

A year into one of Israel’s most difficult crises in Gaza, the Middle East is quietly reshaping itself — not along ideological lines, but through shifting interests. Israel, Turkey, and the United States now find themselves locked in a...

Richard Diamond

Oct 29, 2025, 7:54 PM

Gaza’s ‘Day After’ Plan will be a Quagmire — and Israel will be Blamed For It

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Gaza’s “Day After” Plan Is a Quagmire in the Making — and Israel is Going to Get Blamed For It The US is building a “stabilization plan” for Gaza. On paper, it sounds neat: a multinational security force goes in,...

Oct 17, 2025, 10:52 AM

The West Needs a Day-After Plan Too!

Now that there is a 20-point plan for Israelis and Palestinians and really the whole Middle East, I think the West needs one too. The world was screaming for a day-after-plan pretty much as soon as Israel retaliated against the...

Oct 14, 2025, 10:55 AM

Evil and Us – a Prelude – and The Day After

Prelude - Real victims don't act like victims. They just try to survive. Maybe I'm the one who's obtuse. That could be. Perhaps I see it too simply. This is the most difficult essay I have attempted to write. Maybe because I...

Aug 11, 2025, 12:56 PM

IDF Combat Readiness Review Shows Lessons Learned

After October 7’s wake-up call, the army’s surprise drills and self-scrutiny signal a new era of vigilance, resilience, and renewal I have said it here before, and I will say it again: I have long admired the Israel Defense Forces...

Jun 25, 2025, 10:14 PM

The Day After Yesterday

Photo taken by the author in Jerusalem, Israel.

What comes after war when nothing really feels over? The missiles have stopped, for now. It’s been over 24 hours since the last alert. Bomb shelters are still technically open, just in case, but the streets are back to life. Cafes,...

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