Raviv Drucker on ch13: A Palestinian state doesn’t increase the chances of another October 7th; it reduces them. The world understands: the path to defeating Hamas runs through a Palestinian state.

Most of my Syrian Jewish friends had fled the Assad regime by the time Mahmoud was born in 1995. By the time he could walk, the community was virtually nonexistent.

"The establishment of an alternative civilian administration—neither Hamas nor the Palestinian Authority." Good luck with that, Israel

Netanyahu's plan to occupy North Gaza has really little buy-in from Israelis. This is probably best illustrated by the fact that it's unequivocally opposed even by the right-populist Liberman who says the govt must listen to the IDF chief instead.

The Israeli military’s chief of staff, Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir, has pushed back against the plan, according to four Israeli security officials. He has shared concerns about risking the Israeli hostages, the exhaustion and fitness of reservists, and about the military’s becoming

Israeli reports say the occupation of Gaza City will require 200,000 reservists and take over three months. That’s almost the number of reservists called up when the war started after October 7.

Around 60,000 Israelis participated in anti-war protests in Tel Aviv today, calling for a hostage deal and an end to the war.

The Western and academic left has fundamentally failed to understand the Middle East—not just politically, but cosmologically. It approaches the region through a narrow, narcissistic lens of anti-colonialism, in which only those voices that oppose “the West” in the correct idiom

💥Eyal Hulata, Israel's former NSA, says Netanyahu could & should have declared victory & walked away from Gaza long ago. Hamas no longer exists as a military force. Expanding the war won’t improve national security & risks the lives of civilians, hostages & soldiers.

Nasser Abu Baker, president of the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate, criticized Hamas leaders, questioning whether they are truly seeing the catastrophe unfolding in Gaza and asking if they are even from our people.

These are truly disastrous results for DSA which confirm how unrepresentative ultra-left authoritarian groups have entirely captured the org by manipulating the convention. Now only about one third of the leadership belongs to anything like serious democratic politics

The Coalition of Mothers at Nahal Oz near the lookout from which the border with Gaza is visible, as close as possible to the hostages, to light their way home and to call for the end of the war. Their light display speels out the names of all the hostages in Morse code. Credit

Opinion | Trump should seal the deal: A historic Israel-Iran non-aggression pact haaretz.com/opinion/2025-0…

Ben Gvir could not have created more inspiring propaganda for the Palestinian national movement than this video. He’s like Javert in Les Miserables but crueler and more stupid.

Ben Gvir enters the prison cell to threaten the starved and jailed Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti, telling him, "We will wipe the Palestinians out."

Last week in Jerusalem; they could have all returned alive jewishphilosophyplace.com/2025/08/15/las…

"For ourselves. In memory of Hersh. Because Hapoel Jerusalem is much more than soccer." Hapoel Jerusalem, of which Hersh Goldberg-Polin was an avid fan, called on fans to boycott the game on Sunday and demonstrate for the hostages instead. They will even provide transportation

"אסור להישאב לחור השחור שהוא עזה". הרבה דברים יצאו מהקבינט שעסק בכיבוש עזה. הנאום של שר החוץ סער שם - לא ממש. כשדיבר, שררה דממה מעיקה בחדר. סער הזהיר שאין מה להשוות בין הסיכון שנשקף כעת מחמאס בעזה לנזקים "המדיניים והאסטרטגיים" לישראל כתוצאה מהתמשכות המלחמה בעזה. טורי במוסף לשבת-

a political horizon to end the war, disarm Hamas, reconstruct Gaza with support from regional actors haaretz.com/middle-east-ne…