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When the Sirens Haven’t Stopped: Understanding Trauma While Danger Is Still Real

By Dr. Ivan Gulas, Board-Certified Clinical Psychologist and Author of ‘Changing the Odds: A New Understanding of PTSD and the Path to Recovery’

When the…

Binyamin Netanyahu – Bibi – has been Israel’s prime minister, intermittently, for almost 20 years. One would think that he is loved, liked, respected.

 Well, not so much. 

 There are, of course, those who do. Like and respect him. …

After finishing our morning doppio (double espresso) in the hotel lobby, Marco, our concierge, rushes over and hands me a list of local sites to visit near our hotel situated in Puglia, a region of Southern Italy. At the top of the list noted…

In my previous column, I examined how a commercial dispute involving a global titanium producer raised broader questions about strategic supply chains relevant to Israel and its Gulf partners. That issue has now taken on renewed significance…

Nearly everybody called out Tucker Carlson at the Republican Jewish Coalition’s symposium on antisemitism. 

Attendees clapped when Sen. Ted Cruz called Carlson “the single-most dangerous demagogue in the country,”…

Sitting here in a bomb shelter north of Tel Aviv, listening to our Iron Dome save countless lives in our country and the occasional boom that shakes the ground beneath us, I find myself thinking about the future of our region. I see my…

In everyday life, gratitude is personal and emotional. In international politics, it is something else entirely. When nations say, “thank you,” they are rarely expressing sentiment. They are signaling strategy. In global affairs,…

There was a time when I respected Blaire White for her willingness to challenge progressive orthodoxy. I believed she valued intellectual consistency.

In a discussion about the Middle East, someone pointed out to Blaire White that in Israel,…

For Israeli families, raising children during war is neither an abstract concept nor a new one. It is daily life. Sirens interrupt school and sleep. Parents and siblings disappear into military service.

Since October 7th, many parents have…

There is a particular kind of strategic trap that American presidents have wandered into before: a war launched with limited goals that quickly becomes defined by the one objective it cannot achieve. In Vietnam, it was a government in Hanoi…