Both Morocco and Algeria survive on the same dangerous truth: their regimes need the Polisario Front. Not to defeat it, not to resolve the conflict—but to justify their own existence. Morocco looks triumphant on paper. The UN leans toward…
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The War Both Morocco and Algeria Fear to Win
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Divine Encounter Parashat Vayishlach Part 2
The following essay is a revised version of the d’var Torah I posted here in 2024 . This year I have re-edited it also into two parts. Part 2: The Only Thing to Fear… Sometimes, before we can see the divine in someone, another step…
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I would like to meet you
A man in a black suit walks forward. His pace is steady. From behind, he seems taller. His background is black, and only the outline of his form is visible—due to his blond hair, which glows faintly. Now he begins to hobble backward, yet he…
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The Wound That Speaks When No One Else Will
There is a moment in Vayishlach when the narrative slows, darkens, and refuses to protect us. It comes without warning, like a door slammed by the wind. One verse: “And Dinah went out to see the daughters of the land.” And with that small,…
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Israel delivers Arrow 3 to Germany: ‘We are proud to be able to protect Germany’
The recent delivery of the Arrow 3 missile defense system to Germany represents far more than a just transaction between two friendly nations. It is a defining moment in contemporary geopolitics, signaling a structural shift in the security…
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Bridges of Liberation: Conclusion
The Mamdani Index and the Oncoming Catastrophe This is the eighth and final article in the series “Bridges of Liberation: Jewish & African Paths to Freedom.” The enemy that scattered both peoples across continents, that still holds Black…
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Bye Bye Bibi: It’s Time to Pass the Torch to a New Generation
A tip of the kippah to Tom Stoppard, who passed away this week and takes with him a pen so sharp it could have cut through Israeli politics like a hot knife through hummus. Stoppard was one of my gateway drugs to the written word….
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The Making Of The Second Ku Klux Klan
The Ku Klux Klan, the most powerful far-right American movement during the 1920s, was far more potent than its white supremacist forebearer, which emerged following the US civil war. With a membership of over one million within a few years of its…
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Understanding Jewish and Palestinian Equality in Israel — Part XXIV
XXIV.1 Fear as a Political Language Fear is one of the most influential forces shaping political life between the river and the sea. For many Jewish Israelis, collective memory includes centuries of statelessness, persecution, and genocide,…
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Iran Is Running Out of Water – and Time
Tehran’s slow collapse, and why it should worry us all Picture, if you will, a country that is quite literally lowering itself into the ground. Fields once green now fissured and grey, lakes reduced to chalk outlines on satellite images, roads…
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