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This is the story of one soldier — my son Arky — whose experiences on his base near the Gaza border this past Yom Kippur were too vivid and unusual to go unrecorded.

I write them down here, so that the details — the moments that were so…

Only two American organizations hailed the October 7, 2023 attack on Israel, Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), and Democratic Socialists of America (DSA). Zohran Mamdani has been closely affiliated with both groups. As an undergraduate…

To say that Guardian columnist, Polly Toynbee, single-handedly brought down Boris Johnson and his Conservative government in 2022 — by suggesting that leader and party be smeared and tarred with sleaze accusations — would, perhaps, be…

Over the past two years since the tragic events of October 7 and the war that followed, I’ve travelled to Israel seven times. The first was in November 2023, fifty days into the war, and the most recent in September 2025, 690 days in. Each…

It’s hard to keep track of what is happening. And it’s hard to figure out where it’s all heading. But there is reason to be optimistic.

Let’s start with Israel. Living hostages have been freed. Some bodies are still not returned….

Donald Trump, presumably in quest of his Nobel Peace Prize, decided to finally settle the Israel-Gaza War and, seemingly as add-ons, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the “Middle East conflict” as a whole.  This has necessarily…

Israel prepares for a much needed election in one year’s time. Consequent to any rational analysis of the current situation and its antecedents (with sanity its only bias) one shudders to contemplate the prospects, given the latest polls…

The potential meeting between Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un, mentioned during the ASEAN summit, needs careful consideration beyond simple media speculation. This suggests a deliberate reversion to a diplomatic approach that values…

“Jews are evil until proven otherwise; anti-Jewish racism is totally cool.” —Dara Horn*

It’s become impossible to ignore that Jew-hatred on both the right and the left draws from the same ancient playbook. The book cover changes, but…

The so-called “Trump Peace Plan” ceasefire did not bring peace to Gaza—it exposed the rot inside it.

Beneath Hamas’s collapsing empire, 12 armed clans now fight for the spoils of power, money, and revenge.

Gaza is not being rebuilt by…