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Moshe Pitchon

Moshe Pitchon

The Times of Israel (Blogs)

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Not Left or Right—What Kind of Thinking Can Govern?

There are moments in politics when in spite of the arguments being loud and the competition is real, the disagreement is thinner than it appears....

24.04.2026 50

The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Moshe pitchon

When Survival Is Called Victory

A familiar commentary is taking shape in the wake of recent wars in the United States and Israel. The wars did not achieve their stated aims. The...

10.04.2026 40

The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Moshe pitchon

The war on Iran and its critics

History does not repeat. No moment is a carbon copy of another. Yet history does recur—not in events, but in situations that test judgment in...

05.04.2026 50

The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Moshe pitchon

The Wrong Century for Understanding War

Four weeks into a war, we are already being told what it means. This, in itself, should give us pause. In a recent analysis in the New York Times,...

30.03.2026 50

The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Moshe pitchon

Visibility Without Responsibility

In a recent article, Spanish writer Pilar Rahola denounced what she described as the double standards of prominent cultural and political...

26.03.2026 40

The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Moshe pitchon

When We Start the Story in the Middle, We Misunderstand the Threat

In a 2022 televised interview, Naftali Bennett, then Prime Minister of Israel, challenged his interviewer, Christiane Amanpour, CNN’s chief...

18.03.2026 50

The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Moshe pitchon

History is intelligible only in retrospect

Looking backward, events appear almost inevitable. Causes line up neatly, consequences seem logically connected, and historians can draw arrows from...

12.03.2026 90

The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Moshe pitchon

Why Argentina Is the Outlier in the World’s Reaction to Iran

When the United States and Israel struck Iranian targets, much of the world reacted with caution or criticism. Governments across Latin America called...

06.03.2026 60

The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Moshe pitchon

How Israel Changed the World (Again)

The first time the Jewish people changed the world, they did it without an army, without a state, without territory. They did it with a book. The...

03.03.2026 20

The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Moshe pitchon

Of Course, She Was Jewish — But What Kind of a Jew Was Esther?

The Book of Esther asks a question that Jewish life continues to avoid. Of course, Esther was Jewish. The text tells us so. Mordechai, her cousin and...

26.02.2026 30

The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Moshe pitchon