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Reruns among this year’s hit products amid the pandemic

Around this time every year, organizations announce their annual rankings of big hits, harking back to products and events that were talked about a...

Ex-top investigator alleges prosecution coverup in police killing of Bedouin man

The former head of the Israel’s police internal affairs unit has reportedly alleged that the State Prosecution tried to bury an investigation into...

You cannot separate Bin Salman's betrayal from Bin Ramadan's

Uncle Sam always exposes his agents, pulling them into his bed in the dark of night, then exposing them in the bright light of day. That is the...

Bank of Israel holds benchmark rate at 0.1% as pandemic casts pall

The Bank of Israel on Monday kept its key lending rate unchanged at 0.1 percent as the coronavirus pandemic continued to weigh on economic activity...

5 positive changes I’ve observed in Israel this year

Living in Israel can be a frustrating experience. For most people who live here, that probably doesn’t require elaboration. But just when...

With Trump a lame duck, Bibi is moving fast

Benjamin Netanyahu boasts that “he has been very busy” in recent weeks since the results of the US elections have made it clear that Joe Biden...

Fake Data = Fake Culture

In my two previous blogs on second-hand dealers of ideas and critical theory I pointed to the role of intellectuals and media in becoming...

The Pitfalls of Facebook Discourse

I freely admit that I am a Luddite lacking a Facebook page, an Instagram account, or a Twitter account.   Our four children, having been convinced...

The Importance of Listening to America’s Allies

Embed from Getty Images The incoming administration of President-elect Biden has stirred up conversations across the Middle East about America’s...

Miscalculation of virus relief aid demands review of faulty stats

A number of unexplained factors are hurting the reliability of government statistics, which is manifesting itself in gross underestimation of...

Innovative mobility partnership

Hyundai Motor, Naver set to experiment with new possibilities The country's biggest automaker and top search engine platform have reached an...

Iran accuses exiled dissident group of helping Israel kill nuclear researcher

TEHRAN, Iran — Iran said Israel and an exiled opposition group used new and “complex” methods to assassinate its leading nuclear scientist, as...

Israeli missions urged to beef up security amid fears of blowback after Iran hit

The director-general of the Foreign Ministry sent a letter Monday to all Israeli diplomatic missions urging them to up their security protocols and...

Trump remains unpredictable

By Donald Kirk The rise of Joe Biden is ushering in an array of old and new names vying for the president-elect's ear, or the ears of those close...

Peru should give its latest president a chance

With the Nov. 17 swearing-in of Francisco Sagasti as interim president, Peru has its third head of state in a little more than a week. Sagasti's...

Warp speed for clean energy? That won’t work.

Given the success of Operation Warp Speed in driving vaccine development, some commentators have called for Warp Speed equivalents for clean energy...

Thanksgiving in thankless year

By Jason Lim As I write this, the international media is reporting that Diego Maradona has died. The outpouring of grief and condolences has been...

Pyongyang's reticence on Biden

By Tong Kim For weeks, North Korea has been silent on the outcome of the U.S. presidential election. Since Joe Biden was recognized as the U.S....

We are in a war and losing

By Chang Se-moon "We are in a war right now and the virus is winning." Governor Larry Hogan of Maryland made this statement Nov. 17 describing the...

Asian nations take major step forward

By Arthur I. Cyr A comprehensive new trade agreement among the nations of East and Southeast Asia promises greatly to increase production in the...

How investment banks encourage America's hidden addiction to petroleum

By Emanuel Pastreich I have watched the sad sight of high school students led by Greta Thunberg and other climate activists demanding of political...

CaFF 2020

By Kim Ae-ran More than ever, watching films seems to be more interesting and moving than reading books and the Catholic film festival (CaFF) is a...

Korea's Sexual Exploitation Runs Deeper than One Man

By David Tizzard South Korea breathed a sigh of relief after the Seoul District Court found a 25-year-old male named Cho Ju-bin guilty of running...

[VIEW] A letter to friends in China fighting against coronavirus

By Hwang Jae-ho Hwang Jae-ho. Difficulty knocks on the door out of nowhere. Adversity comes in many forms. We all bound to face hardships from...

War and peace in Bosnia

By Carl Bildt STOCKHOLM ― At a U.S. Air Force base in Ohio 25 years ago, the European continent's most devastating war since 1945 came to an end...

Update on the Issue of Gilgit-Baltistan in the Context of the “Kashmir Problem”

The former principality of Kashmir was among several hundreds of territories with varying degrees of autonomy on the Indian subcontinent, and in...

US is Losing in the Militarily Race against Russia and China

The Trump administration, pursuing its adventurous policy and inciting hostility towards Russia and China, has recently repeatedly tried to...

Brazil, BRICS and the defence of the Global South

Rarely in the history of mankind does something positive come out of the nerve centre of financial capital and speculative parasites. The BRICS...

Diego 1960–[neskončno]

Ko si najstnik, potrebuješ vzornika. In mit. On, Amigo, novinar zagrebških Sportskih novosti Zvonimir Magdić (1930–2018), nas je s svojimi...

Noh: Traditional theater, contemporary fashion through new lens PREMIUM

Trump no habría perdido por la pandemia

Cuando Jair Bolsonaro pronunció el discurso de victoria tras su elección como presidente, el libro "Lo mínimo que se necesita saber para no ser...

The trouble with love and sex

Iain and Susan have been together for 33 years but they can’t seem to have a conversation without it spiralling into an argument. Dave longs for...

We Need a Democratic Party in Israel

In a recent conversation with some friends in the USA, I shocked them by telling them that their political situation is much better than ours in...

The Falastin Cookbook – Culinary Agitprop

Falastin: A Cookbook by Coming April 2020: A ground-breaking Middle Eastern cookbook from Sami Tamimi, the co-author of OTTOLENGHI: THE COOKBOOK...

Living in the river of uncertainty (Daf Yomi Pesachim 9)

Embed from Getty Images “And is it so that an uncertainty does not override a certainty.” The last few days of readings inspired me to research...

The Chance We Were Given Today, 73 Years Ago

On November 29, 1947, the UN General Assembly voted in favor of a resolution, which adopted the plan for the partition of Palestine, which paved...

Western White arrogance as the big COVID-19 killer

White racism as the largest slaughterer of … Whites. Yes, the heading of this blog post sounds offensive. But you know what would be more...

Women and Dogs

Many readers will have spotted the mistake in the title of this blog. It should, of course, be Dogs and Women. We have to get our priorities right....

Understanding IHRA

Discussions about Israel, often passionate, occasionally get sidetracked by a descent into—or accusations of—antisemitic rhetoric. When does...

5 Positive Changes I’ve Observed in Israel This Year

Living in Israel can be a frustrating experience. For most people who live here, that probably doesn’t require elaboration. But just when...

The Upcoming Post-Corona Crisis

“We have a maximum of choices and a minimum of meaning.” — Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks z”l As I mentioned in my last essay, it seems that many...

The Hypocrisy of Effi Eitam’s Critics

Amotz Asa-el, Yossi Klein Halevi, and Deborah Lipstadt, are among the chorus of those on the political left who are criticizing the apparent...

Was The Creation of the State of Israel Miraculous?

Is it right to call the feat of the creation of the State of Israel miraculous? Though its conception may not meet the criterion of conception that...

Blind Samson

“A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue, nor virtue without citizens.” Rousseau Having started a “dirty...

The message of the Golem

It is possible that the legend of the Golem which is told in the Talmud, in many books, and even several films has a disturbing message. Let’s take...

Turkey Talk

Golf is just not a thing here. There is just one course in the whole country, for the 9M of us, and never a problem getting a tee time. Whacking...

Anxieties and Apologies

If, like me, you are prone to anxiety, you have no doubt found that a global pandemic is anything but a nurturing environment. In June, after three...