“Peace will come when the Arabs love their children more than they hate us.” (Golda Meir) For decades, world leaders have promised peace for the Middle East, often with dramatic signatures, photo ops, and declarations of “a new era.”…
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The Mirage of Imported Peace
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Covenant as a Separative Operator: Against Soft Universalism
ואתם תהיו לי ממלכת כהנים וגוי קדוש I want this line to stand first on its own. Not as a devotional ornament and not as a friendly interfaith slogan, but as a conceptual Event that disrupts a comfortable habit of…
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The Maghreb Nuclear Trap: Why the IAEA’s New Deal is a Strategic Catastrophe
On December 9, 2025, the world witnessed a bureaucratic photo op that may one day be remembered as the moment the nuclear fuse was lit in North Africa. In a virtual ceremony, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Rafael…
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The Sound of Silence That Failed Yosef
Parashat Vayeishev In our world today, studies continue to reveal a painful truth: when people witness harm, many choose to stand aside. They watch, they hope it will pass, they convince themselves that staying silent is safe. Yet the Torah…
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The Netanyahu Trials – A Case Study in Lawfare
For years, many Israelis and commentators abroad spoke about Netanyahu as if his guilt was already established, and the trials were expected to simply ratify what his opponents had long claimed. In this atmosphere, the democratic principle of…
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Caring for Israel’s reservists and their families is an economic imperative
When Israeli reservists return home from their military service, re-entering civilian life is often no simple matter. Coming back to their families, communities, and workplaces, they are altered by experiences and even trauma that leave a lasting…
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The Morocco-Israel Tripartite Bargain at Five Years
This December 10 marks five years since the Trump administration brokered one of modern diplomacy’s most explicit quid pro quos – Morocco’s normalization with Israel in exchange for American recognition of Moroccan sovereignty over Western…
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Something strange in the neighborhood
Carney wants to give parts of Israel to the Palestinians. Now Canadian Indigenous want parts of Canada. It just doesn’t pay to start up with Israel. The premier of British Columbia, David Eby, last year fired a Jewish cabinet minister for…
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Honoring the Divine Image: A Message for International Human Rights Day
A Blessed Human Rights Day to You. On December 10, 1948, in the shadow of the Holocaust and the catastrophic disregard for human life that marked World War II, the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). Its…
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Netanyahu the Great Pretender
In a cowardly act, coalition members tried to flee the Knesset plenary to avoid supporting a proposal put forward by opposition leader Yair Lapid to adopt Trump’s 20-point plan to end the war in Gaza – a plan that was approved and partially…
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