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Moshe PitchonThe Times of Israel (Blogs) |
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....
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...
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...
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,...
In a recent article, Spanish writer Pilar Rahola denounced what she described as the double standards of prominent cultural and political...
In a 2022 televised interview, Naftali Bennett, then Prime Minister of Israel, challenged his interviewer, Christiane Amanpour, CNN’s chief...
Looking backward, events appear almost inevitable. Causes line up neatly, consequences seem logically connected, and historians can draw arrows from...
When the United States and Israel struck Iranian targets, much of the world reacted with caution or criticism. Governments across Latin America called...
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...
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...