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Wars rarely end when the guns fall silent. They continue inside the human nervous system, shaping how people interpret danger, loyalty, and justice. When societies rebuild institutions without addressing trauma, fear does not disappear—it…

Operation Epic Fury has done more than devastate Iran’s ballistic missile infrastructure. It has detonated the strategic assumptions underpinning both the Russia-Ukraine war and China’s carefully calibrated posture of non-alignment. The…

The number 42 has fascinated people for generations. In modern popular culture it is famously known as “the answer to life, the universe, and everything.” That idea became widely known through the book The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the…

The Word “War” Is Doing Too Much Work

What matters most in the present confrontation with Iran is not the old question of whether this is “war” in the classical sense. That question is already too flattering. The more revealing issue…

In 7^th grade my best friend was an Iranian refugee. If you were in Jewish day school in the late 80’s and early 90’s you may have had a similar experience. I had just switched schools and thought I was going through a transition until I…

Lithuania has weaponized criminal law to protect Holocaust perpetrators and prosecute those who name them. The mechanism is not theoretical. It is operational, documented, and expanding. This article constitutes public notice to the…

A week ago Saturday, the world entered a new era. With the elimination of the Iranian leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, the long-simmering “shadow war” erupted into a direct, joint military campaign between the United States and Israel. While…

How Semantics Fueled Decades of Confusion

Much of the global discussion about the Israel–Palestine conflict begins with a quiet assumption: that two distinct places exist — Israel and Palestine — and that the problem is how to divide…

To warn of incoming Iranian ballistic missiles, the Israeli Home Front Command sends an advance alert to your cell phone, in Hebrew, Arabic or English, advising you to get close to your nearest bomb shelter, ready to go in. This is my…

In the summer of 2006, Israel absorbed more than 4,000 rockets fired by Hezbollah from southern Lebanon. For thirty-four days, the north of the country lived under constant sirens. Families slept in shelters. Cities such as Haifa, Nahariya,…