There are three major issues that arose for me while writing Part I of this two-part article. Part I, that should be read first, comprises a cost-cost exercise regarding ending the Hamas-Gaza war ASAP (now) versus continuing the war and a discussion with a friend I called Molly . It is important to note that…
While a therapist, I devised a decision making tool that helped my clients sort out dilemmas and choose the alternative that best fit their values and their goals. I called it the cost-cost table because we only measure the potential costs of Alternative A versus the potential costs of Alternative B. This is different from…
Some people love optical illusions. Some people just find them frustrating and a useless waste of time and energy. As I struggled to see the circles in the Coffer Illusion, I could not help but find an association between optical illusions, in general, and political views. I will only relate to Israel as that is…
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 of Israel, proclaims in its headline: Two-thirds of Israelis back hostage deal over continuing war in Gaza – poll and this…
Reporting on her call to German citizens to leave Lebanon, news articles in Israel and abroad quoted an “X” post attributed to German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock: With every rocket across the Blue Line between #Lebanon & #Israel, the danger grows that a miscalculation could trigger a hot war from one moment to the next….
Results of the latest Pew survey concerning Israel, conducted in March-April 2024, were published in a number of separate reports (‘How Israeli society has unified, and divided, in wartime,’ ‘Amid war in Gaza, 58% say their country is not respected internationally,’ ‘Israeli views of the Israel-Hamas war,’ with potentially more to come). Pew shows either…
Hezbollah published a nine-minute videoclip of drone images taken over Haifa, confirmed as such by the IDF. The images are sharp and anyone familiar with the city and its environs can easily pick out the streets, the shopping centers, the homes, and perhaps some people will even recognize their cars driving from somewhere to somewhere…
Some members of the left-wing Kaplan Force (כוח קפלן), a movement that has been trying to bring down the Netanyahu government since its current inception are, perhaps, unlikely participants in protests organized by Tsav 9. Tsav 9, whose motto is: “no humanitarian aid until the last of the hostages returns home,” was sanctioned by the…
On the morning of our Shavuot holiday, I was happily sitting at my crafts table doing some macrame and listening to a lecture by Einat Wilf on Zionism and anti-Zionism (to be written up at some later time). My mood was suddenly disrupted by red alerts flashing across the top of my smartphone screen along…
According to his LinkedIn profile, Iraqi Sufian Samarrai is a “successful and highly regarded TV anchor with wide political knowledge and understanding of geographical and historical issues worldwide with a strong focus on the Middle East.” He studied at Baghdad University and Al-Turath University, also in Baghdad, and now works with Arab News Network and…
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