Almost 50 years ago the movie Network (1976) was released. The film is best known for the anchorman rant scene that features Howard Beale’s: “I’m as mad as hell and I’m not going to take this anymore!” But it is also known for another…
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Mr. President The World Is Not A Business
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Israel: The Middle East’s Only Indigenous Outsider
A neighborhood that forgets everything insists the one nation that forgets nothing must defend its right to exist. It would border on comedy if it weren’t built on amnesia— and it would be mere amnesia if it weren’t repeated every…
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Israel needs to wipe out Hamas, regardless…
On Saturday evening, during a demonstration at Hostage Square in Tel Aviv attended by hundreds of people, Itzik Gvili, father of Ran, one of the hostages murdered by Hamas, made a very clear and indisputable point, as reported by The Times of…
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Ireland’s Herzog Park Moment: When the Colonized Learn to Erase
צֶדֶק צֶדֶק תִּרְדֹּף זָכוֹר אַל תִּשְׁכַּח Ireland’s Herzog Park Moment: When the Colonized Learn to Erase The controversy around a small park in Rathgar is almost painfully symbolic. A Dublin City Council…
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Canada’s Qatar Visa Decision Reveals a Serious Policy Blind Spot
Canada’s decision on November 25, 2025, to lift visa requirements for Qatari citizens was announced quietly and without public explanation. While presented as an administrative update, the move carries wider implications for national security…
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What Palestinians Really Want (Part II): Beyond the Headlines
Why anger isn’t antisemitism — and what the data actually shows. In this post I would like to address and sharpen issues not addressed in the previous post. The question of the importance of antisemitism understanding the difference between…
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Herzog must reject Netanyahu’s pardon request
Granting clemency for a prime minister who denies all wrongdoing and attacks law enforcement would strike at the heart of the rule of law
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The new historic UN resolution is reason for hope
Ever since the important vote on November 29, 1947, endorsing the creation of the Jewish state, the UN has been remarkably unhelpful to Israel – until now
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Where is Jewish Anger? The Mizrahi Story
I light candles for the things my family never spoke about. The 30th of November is Yom HaPlitim, the Day of Refugees, marking the expulsion of nearly one million Jews from Arab lands. My Iraqi father and all my grandparents are counted in that…
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A Quest for Healing Post October 7, 2023
A Quest for Healing Post October 7, 2023 A quest for healing post October 7, Where to begin, what to do, how and when? For whom, under what circumstances, by whom? All are implicated, involved, affected, As witnesses or survivors of…
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