Refocus on Netanyahu after Holy Days
We’ve had the holidays, and have gone back to work.
Slowly, in the matters of the Netanyahus.
Sara’s trial has begun, sort of.
The prosecution has asked for three judges, given the delicacy and complexity of things....
What a political general teaches us about the Israel-Diaspora disconnect
It appears as if another Israeli general is about to enter politics. According to multiple reports, Benny Gantz, who served as chief of staff of the Israel Defense Forces from 2011 to 2015, will...
Manipulating A Chunk Of Human Experience
Most of the experiences I have focused on in this column dealing with sensory distortion in modern technological society have been visual experiences. Yes, I have dealt with noise pollution from construction sites and...
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The sick hatred against Jews in the West
Giulio Centemero recently gave one of the best speeches on anti-Semitism that has ever been delivered in the Chamber of Deputies of the Italian Parliament.
Centemero, who belongs to the governing party Lega—ranked among one...
The price of Saudi friendship
In one sense, the disappearance of Washington Post journalist Jamal Kashoggi after he entered Saudi Arabia’s consulate in Istanbul, Turkey, last week is pretty much business as usual for the Riyadh regime. Saudi Arabia is a...
The Mideast Piece(!) Process
“We can’t wait for a Palestinian messiah to come and make peace with us, because that won’t happen. And we can’t wait for the messiah who will give us a clear Jewish majority from...
The International Criminal Court’s fundamental flaw
In my last column, I noted in passing that the International Criminal Court’s blatant anti-Israel bias is merely a symptom of a more fundamental flaw. That isn’t self-evident; court supporters would doubtless argue, just as...
Who speaks for the Jews, and why do we let them?
The confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh as the newest associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court was greeted by the organized Jewish world in the same manner as his nomination by U.S. President Donald Trump....
Empathy and intelligence — a last opportunity for reconciliation
While stunningly counterintuitive, the critical gap between technical intelligence and human empathy is more insidious than ever before. In response, one fundamental question should spring immediately to mind: What has created such a strange...
In the absence of leadership
I write this just hours after an Arab terrorist shot and killed two Jews and seriously wounded a third in the Barkan industrial center in Israel’s Shomron region, where thousands of Jews and Arabs...