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The Blogs: To be a free people

2+ hour, 22+ min ago  (432+ words) You know it's coming at 8pm. But your body doesn't care what you know. It braces at 7: 55. At 7: 57. At 7: 59. Bracing for something you can never actually brace for. And when it comes, it's jarring every time. It pierces your heart. Sits…...

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The Blogs: From Smartphones to Flying Taxis: The World Israel Is Building

4+ hour, 57+ min ago  (823+ words) by Winslow Swart e VTOL (electric vertical takeoff and landing) vehicles are rapidly moving past the R&D stage reaching consumer market, emerging technology Israel is leading. (Image AI generated) Inside that room, none of the surrounding history disappeared. But…...

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The Blogs: Nostalgia For The Past: Independence Day

5+ hour, 4+ min ago  (596+ words) There was heavy traffic, but they wisely chose not to complain to me. They stayed overnight in Jerusalem, and I heard all about it when they returned on Friday. Later that week, my first cousins'Holocaust survivors living in Dimona, Holon,…...

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The Blogs: Ol, Spain: Israel's Multidomain Play Now!

1+ day, 8+ hour ago  (424+ words) Spanish Prime Minister Pedro S'nchez is now demanding that the European Union suspend its association agreement with Israel. Jerusalem should welcome the move with open arms, but only on one firm condition: the suspension must remain until Spain ends its…...

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The Blogs: Israel'Somaliland Engagement: A Realist Analysis

1+ day, 9+ hour ago  (591+ words) The Somaliland case therefore becomes a revealing analytical entry point into how regional powers actually behave'where rhetoric of law and solidarity often masks strategic competition, economic interests, and regional influence calculations. From this perspective, Turkey's opposition to Somaliland'Israel engagement is…...

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The Blogs: Why Lebanon is so critical in the present peace negotiations

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (648+ words) Before making Aliyah from the United States, I spent over three decades as a lawyer in the United States. My practice involved handling many civil rights cases, including women's- rights cases, in State and Federal courts. I handled numerous constitutional…...

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The Blogs: We Must Not Let Zionism Become a Dirty Word

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (343+ words) You might say that I soaked up Zionism with my mother's milk. My Uncle Shia (mother's brother) left Poland for Palestine in 1937 to work on a kibbutz. This was long before there was an Israel, but he believed in a…...

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The Blogs: Remembering Charlie Kirk, an American Patriot and Staunch Supporter of Israel

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (714+ words) Remembering Charlie Kirk, an American Patriot and Staunch Supporter of Israel'The Times of Israel - Follow You will receive email alerts from this author. Manage alert preferences on your profile page You will no longer receive email alerts from this author....

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The Blogs: A little update from Israel

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (1162+ words) Musings on rockets, Bibi, Trump, the mullahs" and everyone and everything else that lately kept me awake nights Freshly righted, this car was blown through the air by a cluster bomblet that landed around the corner from the writer's home....

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The Blogs: The Upcoming Script Flip on Israel's Lebanon War

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (251+ words) The result: more than 60, 000 Israelis remain displaced from northern communities nearly two and a half years after Hezbollah opened its front on October 8, 2023, in coordination with Hamas. The right to conduct these strikes rests squarely on Article 51 of the United…...