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As is often the case, the Middle East keeps the world on edge with a dynamic that at times seems straight out of an action film. Wars, conflicts, and espionage games as I have pointed out more than once demonstrate that in this region,…

Dual citizenship – a citizen of the United States of America, grew up there, and a citizen of the State of Israel, living there.

When I made aliyah and became a new immigrant in the 1980s, I wanted to belong, speak Hebrew fluently, hold my…

Israel’s image and power have increased dramatically in the last several years. It was one of the most powerful states in the Middle East before October 7, 2023, but since the ceasefire with Hamas came into effect and the return of all…

Renewed armed clashes along the border between Thailand and Cambodia are a reminder of an inconvenient truth modern diplomacy prefers to ignore: recognition does not resolve conflict. It often freezes it.

The dispute—most visibly around the…

On February 6, 2026, both the United States and Iran described their indirect talks in Muscat as a “good start.” However, behind the diplomatic niceties lies a stark reality: this round of discussions in Oman highlighted the challenges of…

The Viceroy Returns: A Jewish Alibi

The Scapegoat as an Emergency Exit

Here is the thesis as soberly as I can make it. In Poland, a political dispute that should remain procedural and auditable can be ethnicized within hours. Once that…

When the President of Israel arrives in Australia to mourn the victims of the Bondi Beach massacre, the Palestine action group wants to meet him with placards and slogans, predictably, to protest everything except the actual crime.

It is no…

How Social Media, Prejudice and Narrative Warfare Shape Views on Israel

One of the strangest phenomena of the Israel-Palestine conflict is not happening in the Middle East at all. It is happening thousands of kilometers away, on phones and…

Call it the “spot heard ‘round the world.”

The release of “Sticky Note,” the 30-second Super Bowl ad from Robert Kraft’s anti-bigotry organization, the Blue Square Alliance, has prompted a wave of criticism about the contents of…

Among the archaeological discoveries that are published frequently in the scientific literature, some are also very meaningful for our life here and now. A case in point is the dating of a large stone dam that was discovered during the…