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The lesson of time: What Iraq might learn from Japan’s two devastating experiences

The lesson of time: What Iraq might learn from Japan’s two devastating experiences

Nations, like men, learn most from the wounds they survive. Japan learned twice. The first lesson nearly destroyed it. The second rebuilt it. Iraq has...

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Middle East Monitor

Jasim Al-Azzawi

No Dignity at Allenby: Palestinian Babies "Are Suffocating in 95°F Heat"

No Dignity at Allenby: Palestinian Babies

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Haaretz

Amira Hass

British man jailed in Iran given additional two-year sentence, family says

British man jailed in Iran given additional two-year sentence, family says

Family of Craig Foreman says 10-year sentence was extended because he spoke to the media; Tehran executes anti-government protester accused of being a...

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The Times of Israel

Agencies

IDF soldier sentenced to 5 years for spying on behalf of Iran during June 2025 war

IDF soldier sentenced to 5 years for spying on behalf of Iran during June 2025 war

Ruling takes into account that the soldier didn’t provide military intel, and that he ultimately cut off contact and reported the incident to his...

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The Times of Israel

Emanuel Fabian

Letters written by Auschwitz doctor offer rare look at wartime family ties

Letters written by Auschwitz doctor offer rare look at wartime family ties

Newly discovered collection highlights correspondence between Jan Nowak, a non-Jewish physician from Kraków, and his family outside the Nazi camps

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The Times of Israel

Zev Stub

Report: Trump’s former ‘digital guru’ leading Israeli influence campaign targeting MAGA

Report: Trump’s former ‘digital guru’ leading Israeli influence campaign targeting MAGA

Time magazine says Brad Parscale behind an Israeli-funded social media effort to stem the anti-Israel shift in young conservatives; Israel, US both...

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The Times of Israel

Ethan Rubinson

A Nation on Stage: Somaliland’s Theatre of Memory, Freedom, and Recognition

For Somaliland, the quest for international recognition is not only political and legal but also cultural. A National Theatre would be a powerful...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Mohamed Osman

From migration to the criminalization of otherness: who are these Nazi-Eurocrats kidding?

From migration to the criminalization of otherness: who are these Nazi-Eurocrats kidding? For decades, the European border has been militarized in the...

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New Eastern Outlook

Mohamed Lamine Kaba

Google’s power struggles are killing its AI mojo

Google’s power struggles are killing its AI mojo

With the artificial intelligence race moving so rapidly, even a momentary lag can be costly. Alphabet’s Google is learning this the hard way: The...

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The Japan Times

Parmy Olson

Beyond Batumi Boulevard

Beyond Batumi Boulevard

On the surface, the city of Batumi, situated on the beautiful Black Sea coast in the country of Georgia, can feel curated and manicured, like a...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

David Weisberg

Devarim – Calev: The Man Who “Wholly Followed” G-d

Devarim – Calev: The Man Who “Wholly Followed” G-d

On many levels it would be interesting to write about provocative and controversial characters every week. Figures who did things which were truly...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Ben Lazarus

82-year-old man dies of wounds sustained in Iranian missile attack on Haifa in April

82-year-old man dies of wounds sustained in Iranian missile attack on Haifa in April

Michael Katz’s wife says she will ‘live as half a human being’ after her husband of 55 years succumbs to injuries; same missile killed 4 members...

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The Times of Israel

Toi Staff

The diffusion pilot

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Aeon

Aeon Video

What If A Miracle Would Happen?

What If A Miracle Would Happen?

The tragedy of the Israeli conflict is not born from a lack of imagination, but from a devastating surplus of reality. For decades, the global...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Sabine Sterk

The West’s Turkey Dilemma

The West’s Turkey Dilemma

WASHINGTON, DC—The rapid rise of China, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and the US-Israeli war with Iran have made geopolitical rivalry the main...

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Project Syndicate

Anne O. Krueger

Zionist’s Guide to the World Cup—Day 32

The last time France and Spain really went to war with each other was during the Napoleonic Wars, when What’s-His-Face attempted to put his brother...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Doug Klein

Pakistan Is Not Stable. It Is Unraveling.

Pakistan Is Not Stable. It Is Unraveling.

A nuclear-armed country is being consumed by insurgency, military domination, political repression, economic despair and the consequences of its own...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Mansoor H. Laghari

Karikatúra dňa: Pokrok nezastavíš

Kreslí Rosie Naive Art.

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SME.sk

Rosie Babicová

Why Judaism Records Its Own Failures

Civilizations often choose to remember themselves through their triumphs. More often than not, it is a story of victories rather than defeats, of...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Shreeya Anand

Európska ekonomika nie je na tom tak zle, ako sa hovorí. Dôvody sú prekvapivé (luxus)

Diskusia o európskej konkurencieschopnosti sa už dlho zameriava na prehlbujúcu sa priepasť medzi Európou a Spojenými štátmi. To je však...

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Pravda.sk

Sami Mahroum

Wimbledon ovládli Češky. Kedy sa to podarí Slovenkám a prečo je to dôležitá téma?

Čo s Huliakovým ministerstvom?

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SME.sk

Pavel Sibyla

Chokepoints of power: Hormuz, Bab el-Mandeb, and the new corridor wars

Chokepoints of power: Hormuz, Bab el-Mandeb, and the new corridor wars

The concept of “corridor wars” describes intensifying competition among major powers over critical trade, energy, and transit routes in an era of...

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Middle East Monitor

Dr Umud Shokri

Israel and the Colonialism Debate

Israel and the Colonialism Debate

The debate over Israel and colonialism has become one of the defining ideological battles of the modern Middle East. While critics portray Zionism as...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Saurav Dutt

Argentina takes on England for a spot in the 2026 World Cup final

Argentina takes on England for a spot in the 2026 World Cup final

The Argentina men’s national football team is set to take on England in the World Cup 2026 semifinal on Wednesday. The match will be played at the...

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Buenos Aires Herald

Fernando Romero Nuñez

Featured Post

Featured Post

I have accidentally become conversant in at least seven subjects that I wish I knew nothing about.I miss the days when I had no opinion about uranium...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Shira Lankin Sheps

Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani and Al Jazeera

Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani and Al Jazeera

May God have mercy on Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, the humane emir, the brave leader, and the great father, who loved Qatar and its people....

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Al Jazeera

Sheikh Hamad Bin Thamer Al Thani

Hamas said to demand increased financial, diplomatic support from Iran

Hamas said to demand increased financial, diplomatic support from Iran

In talks on sidelines of Khamenei funeral last week, terror group reportedly asked for help rebuilding military capabilities and for its demands to be...

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The Times of Israel

Toi Staff

Kauza zonácie ešte neskončila

Eurokomisia má o dôvod viac, aby bola prísna.

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SME.sk

Mikuláš Huba

A new ‘Quad’ for an ever more complex Indo-Pacific?

A new ‘Quad’ for an ever more complex Indo-Pacific?

The Indo-Pacific has become a laboratory for minilateral diplomacy. The “Quad,” AUKUS, the SQUAD, the Five Eyes, the Japan-U.S.-Republic of Korea...

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The Japan Times

Jonathan Berkshire Miller

Zastávka druhá: Sarlat-la-Canéda (píše Michal Havran)

Francúzska trilógia (letné čítanie)

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SME.sk

Michal Havran

How the Tech Lords Hacked the Firm

How the Tech Lords Hacked the Firm

CAMBRIDGE—One of the most impressive feats of the current generation of tech oligarchs is that they have hacked not just computers or software, but...

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Project Syndicate

Quinn Slobodian

Posledný plot v kontinentálnej Európe padá

Nič z toho nebolo samozrejmé.

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SME.sk

Maroš Šefčovič

Cynická obluda: Ako sa to aktuálne vyvíja

S pribúdajúcimi rokmi prognóza nevyzerá veľmi dobre.

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SME.sk

Cynická Obluda

Earthquake Diplomacy: The Unexpected Thaw Between Caracas and Jerusalem

Earthquake Diplomacy: The Unexpected Thaw Between Caracas and Jerusalem

The devastating earthquakes in Venezuela have opened a channel for humanitarian diplomacy with Israel, burying nearly two decades of ideological...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Óscar Reyes-Matute

When some Christians made Common Cause with Fascism Against Communism

When some Christians made Common Cause with Fascism Against Communism

This piece builds on my recent piece on Édouard Drumont and Nick Fuentes by exploring Christianity’s complex relationship with fascism. It is easy...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Stephen Stern

Rise of young generation: Why many young Indians looking at Israel differently

For decades, India’s approach to the Middle East was deeply influenced by anti-colonial sentiments, the Non-Aligned Movement, and close ties with...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Devesh Jha

Strip Away the Spectacle

Hours before England took the pitch against DR Congo in the World Cup round of 32, the dominant item on British social media was not Thomas Tuchel’s...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Vincent James Hooper

الحكم بالإعدام على "البعاتي".. مهزلة حكومة بورتسودان

في السياسة قد تختلف الروايات، وقد تتبدل المواقف، لكن أن تتصادم الرواية الرسمية مع...

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العين الإخبارية

د. أسامة أحمد المصطفى

Daily Briefing July 15 – Why is Iran attacking its Gulf neighbors?

Daily Briefing July 15 – Why is Iran attacking its Gulf neighbors?

Diplomatic correspondent Lazar Berman on the logic behind the regime’s chokehold on the Strait of Hormuz, an unexpected Houthi attack on Saudi...

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The Times of Israel

Amanda Borschel-Dan

Reshaping the Military-Political Landscape in the Indo-Pacific Region

Reshaping the Military-Political Landscape in the Indo-Pacific Region A number of notable recent events provide good reason to revisit the subject of...

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New Eastern Outlook

Vladimir Terehov

Britain Has Finally Named the Threat. Now It Must Finish the Job.

Britain Has Finally Named the Threat. Now It Must Finish the Job.

For years Britain has fought Islamist extremism like a doctor treating recurring fevers while refusing to diagnose the infection. Every attack has...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Catherine Perez-Shakdam

Kaliňák robí z obyvateľov Javoriny občanov druhej kategórie

Ani budovanie vojenského obvodu nemôže ospravedlniť že minister nekomunikuje

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SME.sk

Darina Luščíková

China’s erasure of Tibet is accelerating

China’s erasure of Tibet is accelerating

NEW YORK – The self-immolation of exiled Tibetan activist Lobga Rangzen outside United Nations headquarters in New York on July 2 was not an...

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The Japan Times

Brahma Chellaney

Destroying Pickaxe Mountain Will Take Far More Than Fordow Did.

Destroying Pickaxe Mountain Will Take Far More Than Fordow Did.

On Monday afternoon, speaking with Hugh Hewitt, President Trump was asked whether he would insist on inspectors reaching the deep tunnels of a...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Celeo Ramirez

Israel now needs a Moroccan prime minister

Israel now needs a Moroccan prime minister

There is an old saying, attributed to Morocco’s King Hassan II, that captures something no diplomatic communiqué ever could: “When a Jew leaves...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Adil Faouzi