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Gina Friedlander

Aug 28, 2026, 6:33 AM

What’s Missing from the Settler Siege Story

I don't know about you, but I'm always relieved when Israel does NOT appear on the front pages of my newspapers. Or news feeds. Or newscasts. Chances are about 100 to one that if Israel is featured, it won't be...

Aug 27, 2026, 2:20 PM

When Leadership Fails to Lead

A little more than a year ago a group of 80 Rabbis wrote a letter espousing their moral outrage for Israel’s behavior in Gaza, Yehuda and Shomron. The term people use for these rabbis is Orthodox. I have always...

Aug 26, 2026, 8:10 PM

Beware the ‘Populist Bump’

Last week, Der Spiegel faced a media firestorm for its cover page placement of lead Alternativ fur Deutschland (AfD) Saxony-Anhalt candidate Ulrich Siegmund. Despite the accompanying article’s critical tone, commentators from renowned center-left media outlets lambasted the publication, arguing...

Justine Johnston Hemmestad

Aug 25, 2026, 5:40 AM

Summer in Jerusalem

The Nameless One has very recently given a first-hand account of Jerusalem in today’s climate (literally). He reveals, “So far, the summer has been fantastic—not too hot, at least not in Jerusalem—and we are already entering the beautiful month...

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Aug 24, 2026, 5:30 AM

Bennett and Liberman Must End the Palestinian Mess

Naftali Bennett and Avigdor Lieberman correctly reject diplomatic fantasy, but turning that rejection into hard-nosed architecture requires shattering the West’s favorite delusions. For decades, the archaic Israeli foreign policy establishment chased the mirage of a centralized Palestinian state, creating...

Sophia Srour Politis

Aug 24, 2026, 5:29 AM

Are October 7 Patterns Emerging Again?

Observation soldiers report daily suspicious activity near the Gaza border, raising questions over whether Israel is seeing familiar warning signs — while facing mounting pressure on multiple fronts. In less than two months, Israel will once again mark one of...

Sherwin Pomerantz

Aug 23, 2026, 6:05 PM

65 Days to Elections: Complicit or Complacent?

Just a bit over two months before Israel’s election day on October 27th, we are seeing something developing in Israeli society that is somewhat unique and more than mildly concerning. There seems to be a certain complacency developing regarding...

Menachem Rosensaft

Aug 20, 2026, 8:35 PM

Drawing numbers on Palestinian detainees? What were they thinking?

A Palestinian marked by IDF soldiers during a raid of the northern West Bank village of Qabatiya on August 17, 2026. (Screen capture/X)

Whatever the soldiers’ intent, reducing anyone numbers is dehumanizing — and ‘lessons were learned’ is no longer an adequate response

Aug 19, 2026, 10:39 AM

Palestinian Rejectionism Is the Harder Problem

Image is free for publication on a commercial platform. If it is, please provide a credit in the caption of the image.. Free download available for non-commercial and commercial use from the website Pexels of a protestor carrying a Palestinian flag amidst smoke and flames in Gaza, the URL is https://www.pexels.com/photo/protestor-in-gaza-holding-palestinian-flag-in-smoke-36038663/

If poverty, unemployment and restricted movement were the principal causes of Palestinian violence, why have repeated periods of greater economic opportunity, international aid, political autonomy and diplomatic engagement failed to produce lasting peace? The uncomfortable answer is that material...

Sagit Alkobi Fishman

Aug 18, 2026, 6:17 PM

West Bank Outposts Are More Than an Enforcement Failure

Over the past week, Israeli settlers built an illegal outpost beside Palestinian homes in Qusra and blocked the families’ access to them. The first attempt to clear the outpost failed, and after clashes with settler activists who converged on...

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