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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Bye Bye Bibi: It’s Time to Pass the Torch to a New Generation
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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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Italian media bust Albanese: She attended an event with Hamas and PIJ officials
On Thursday, December 4, 2025, the Italian daily newspaper Il Giornale published a crushing article exposing Francesca Albanese, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in the Palestinian Territories, who was already sanctioned…
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Ben Salman Can’t Have His Cake and Eat It Too
How Riyadh risks trading real security for old slogans while Iran reloads its arsenal. Embed from Getty Images During the two years of war between Israel and not just Hamas but the entire Iranian axis—the so‑called Shiite Crescent—the…
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Sexism as a National Security Threat: How Systemic Gender Bias in IDF Command
Greetings, this report was created by a lone civilian. I was not paid to produce this report. I am a dual American citizen, and my only motive in writing this report is to ensure better security for the State. Sexism as a National Security…
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How Miami Vice & Tom Petty predicted the end of the American Dream
How two seemingly innocuous and unrelated cultural moments became the film and soundtrack harbingers of US imperial decline. Above: Crockett and Tubbs walking into the light was the visual metaphor for withdrawal from a fight that no longer had…
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Hajj and Hag to the Center of the Spiritual World
Extinct relatives of modern humans, like Neanderthals and Homo erectus, that lived in the Levant around 100-120,000 years ago, did not engage in mass hunting but preferred selective and strategic hunting of wild cattle. Scientists suggest that…
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Roots of Resilience: Jewish Ties to Israel
The Unbreakable Bond: Israel’s Connection to the Jewish People In the intricate tapestry of the Middle East, the connection between the Jewish people and the land of Israel stands as one of the most enduring and complex narratives. This…
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