Victory and Resilience alongside Despair: Passover 2025
Count the number of Passover Seders held this year in Israel and the Diaspora (and the latter get two, one for each side of the family) and that is a measure of our victory....
Tagged: hostages
Israel’s “Sophie’s Choice” hostage deal would drive anyone to drink
In American author William Styron’s novel, Sophie’s Choice, Sophie was forced, at Auschwitz, to choose which of her two children would be sent to the gas chamber and which would live. Should she have...
This is what Israelis should be arguing about.
My bias is showing here. I believe that all the demonstrations in Israel insisting that the government accept a deal NOW, accept ceasefire NOW are working against the better interests of both the state...
Please tell me how a general strike makes sense.
It took me till the end of writing this article for me to finally see what this strike could have been good for. I am telling you this up front because, if you are...
The poll that gets quoted and the poll that does not
Lately, consumers of English language news are reading that most Israelis now support a hostage deal over continuing military action against Hamas in Gaza. For example, the most widely read English-language Israeli website, Times...
Please tell me what is wrong with my post
Facebook provided no option for me to appeal their decision. If you tell me my post does violate community standards, I will accept the decision without further fuss. * * * * * I...
Fateful days: the same Netanyahu, the same security system – they don’t think long term
Senior diplomatic correspondent Ariel Kahana gave me permission to translate into English an article I think everyone should read and contemplate. The original Hebrew is here. We have experience dealing with deals from Shalit’s...
UNSC Resolution 2720: Been here, done that
Yesterday, Jewish Press published the full text of UNSC Resolution 2720 in which the Council called for: … increased humanitarian aid, humanitarian “pauses”, unconditional release of all hostages being held by Hamas, and Red...
