Yusef, an Alawite Syrian who escaped the atrocities
All I did was introduce myself as an Israeli journalist and Yusef (not his real name), who wants the plight of the Alawites to be told to the world, quickly typed out a story...
Category: Current Events
Ethnic cleansing in our neighbour just north of us
Just north of us there is ethnic cleansing going on at this very moment. I have been put in touch with a few Alawite individuals who I am interviewing to bring their stories to...
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....
Author John Matthews should try playing peace-maker in his own sandbox
Author John Matthews has just written an article with the boastful, pretentious title, “The Ultimate, Definitive Peace Plan.” Matthews is like all those who come up with all kinds of peace arrangements for Israel,...
Trump’s Plan: Transfer is bad, racist, right? Maybe it’s racist to be opposed to this
Yes, when you call Trump’s Plan ‘transfer,’ it sounds really bad. Scornful. Leans toward a situation in which you can call Israelis that thing we are afraid of being called: racists. How dare we...
Tal Hartuv talks about justice, mercy, and risking letting go
After having been a strong spokeswoman combatting the Palestinian Authority’s pay-for-slay salaries-and-retirement-plan for terrorists, Tal Hartuv went silent for a number of years. After Oct 7th, she began speaking publicly again. In this interview,...
Hostage Deal: Both Sides of the Coin
We ALL want ALL the hostages home. We all want the surviving hostages reunited with their families and beginning the work of rehabilitation and building their futures and we want the bodies of the...
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...
