Israel’s decision to move toward formal recognition and deeper strategic engagement with Somaliland has been hailed in Jerusalem as a long-overdue geopolitical correction. Stable, cooperative, and sitting astride the Gulf of Aden,…
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The Blogs: Armageddon is a Powerful Warning Thank God | Allen S. Maller
Humans almost went into extinction four times. The first time was around 150,000 years ago when the atmosphere became very dry right across the world, especially in central, eastern and southeastern Africa where all known humans lived. It’s…
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The Blogs: Man Bites Dog – Anti-Zionist Jews | David Werdiger
Jewish Anti-Zionists are there for the attention, and the media fawn over them because they too realise they are an anomaly. They have become “useful idiots” in the current wave of antisemitism surging around the world.
They may mask…
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The Blogs: The ‘Silver Platter’ is still being shaped | Stephen M. Flatow
The growing weight of sacrifice — and the troubling tone of the national debate.
As the newly formed United Nations debated the future of the British Mandate of Palestine, Zionist leader Chaim Weizmann warned that a state would not be…
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The Blogs: Safety is not cheap | Sabine Sterk
What Israel Learned the Hard Way about Safety
There is an uncomfortable truth many people prefer to ignore. Some of the safest systems in the world were not born out of idealism or luxury but out of bloodshed trauma and relentless trial and…
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The Blogs: Strength as Strategy: Rethinking the Land-for-Peace Era | Maoz Druskin
For decades, Israeli policy was guided by a powerful assumption: land could be exchanged for peace.
Territory in exchange for recognition.
Withdrawal in exchange for quiet.
Concessions in exchange for legitimacy.This framework became central…
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The Blogs: Crossing into Gaza | Judy Halper
“Israeli MK caught together with dozens of far-right activists crossing into Gaza.”
In a regular news cycle, pointed out one commentator, a story of an MK breaking the law and endangering troops would be the top story. But in a government…
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The Blogs: Four Days to Humility: Inspecting the Korban Within and More Menachos 48-50 | Simcha Feuerman
48 — Your Sin is Another’s Mitzvah
Our Gemara discusses a technical piece regarding the Shavuous sacrifice that has interesting moral and halachic implications. However, to fully appreciate them, we must first understand the basic text…
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The Blogs: Holy Ark | Kenneth Cohen
The holiest of all the vessels built in the Mishkan, was the Aron Kodesh, or, Holy Ark. it was actually a pretty small object.
It was big enough to hold the second tablets of the Ten Commandments, as well as the broken fragments from the…
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The Blogs: Haddad vs. The Politics of Permanent Grievance | Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez
Yoseph Haddad is not arguing about a coalition — he is exposing a strategic crossroads Israel can no longer avoid.
For too long, a segment of Arab political leadership in Israel has grounded its legitimacy in perpetual opposition—a…
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