In the last several days the Middle East has again been pulled into a widening confrontation—this time between Israel, Iran, and Iran’s proxy Hezbollah. For many watching from afar it can feel like a tragic recurrence, another round in a…
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The Blogs: Eran Rolnik Interview | Alexandre Gilbert #323.2 | Alexandre Gilbert
Eran Rolnik published “Freud in Jerusalem” (Éditions de l’Antilope), about the reception of psychoanalysis in the early years of Zionism.
Part 1
Is psychological language in the media a spread of psychoanalysis or a distortion?ER:…
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Germany plans €6b Elbit PULS deal – report
The agreement for the rocket system may be ratified within the next year, “Bloomberg” reports.
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The Blogs: In Tel Aviv, my crisis response work came home | Avital Sandler Loeff
In all my years doing disaster relief and crisis response work, I never thought my family would need to consider the kind of support I’ve helped provide to thousands of people during wars, earthquakes, famines, and storms. At 10:00 PM last…
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The Blogs: When the Threshold Replaces the Law | Yochanan Schimmelpfennig
When the Threshold Replaces the Law
A billboard in Tehran’s Valiasr Square, October 25, 2023. Thresholds are built before law arrives — in strategy, memory, and political imagination.
Photo: AFPPeople keep asking whether the strike…
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The Blogs: In Wartime, the Gaps Facing Arab Citizens Deepen | Amnon Beeri-Sulitzeanu
War affects all citizens of Israel and missiles and rockets do not distinguish between Jews and Arabs. Yet when we examine living conditions, infrastructure and socio-economic structures, it becomes clear that not all citizens enter this…
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The Blogs: Ukraine: The European Union and France eager to prolonge the war | Francis Moritz
Reality & Paradox
The European Union and France Between Strategic Rhetoric and Political Constraints
While international media attention is increasingly focused on the likely duration of the military intervention against Iran after only a few…
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The Blogs: The Real Reason America Attacked Iran | Sherwin Pomerantz
Jose de Sousa Saramago, a Portuguese poet and the winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature, wrote: “Not everything is as it seems, and not everything that seems is. Between being and seeming there is always a point of agreement, as if…
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The Blogs: American Jews: Expendable Minority | Yishai Edberg
Most Americans may not hate Israel or Jews, but if enough do, is standing up worth losing an election?
The presidential bellwether that is the Virginia gubernatorial election holds an ominous sign for American Jews. The election saw a…
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The Blogs: Why Torah Was Revealed During The Month Of Ramadan | Allen S. Maller
Most people have at one time or another wondered, ‘If there is only one God why are there so many religions?’ The Qur’an declares that Allah could have made all of us monotheists, a single religious community, but (didn’t) in order to…
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