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Ivan BassovThe Times of Israel (Blogs) |
Writing, Living, and Building From the Generative Core of Language There is a Hebrew expression that almost everyone recognizes—and almost no one...
From a Russian Proverb to Piety, Performance—and Policy There is a Russian proverb that wastes no time on politeness: Now consider the phenomenon...
Israel Didn’t “Recognize Palestinians.” It Recognized a Negotiating Partner. A familiar claim keeps resurfacing: “Israel itself recognized the...
Truth Emerges B’sov Ha-Neshama — In the Turning of the Soul Language does not only describe reality. At its deeper layer, it reorganizes...
Palestine Is Not a Fossil — It Is a Battleground There is a persistent illusion in debates about the word “Palestine”: that if you can pin down...
Raised to Become, or Raised to Escape? Two inspiring stories circulate online. The first is familiar. A farmer couple spends their lives under the...
A System That Refused to Let Power Settle The modern obsession with “checks and balances” assumes something deceptively simple: power must be...
Stop Discrediting the Name “Palestine” There is a peculiar kind of discomfort that comes from hearing something that is technically wrong—but...
Understanding the Structural Logic of Irreversible Death Trajectories I introduced the concept of Collateralized Suicide in Collateralized Suicide and...
Methuselah lived 969 years. Or did he? The Torah records lifespans that seem extraordinary—far beyond anything we observe today. Adam lives 930...
“People live as they will never die, and die as if they have never lived.” — attributed to the Dalai Lama Rethinking Time and Perspective When...
How Three Hours at Ben Gurion Airport Changed the Middle East Episode 1: The Airport Mission February 18, 2026. Ben Gurion Airport. A man steps off a...
From Northern Folklore to the Mediterranean In my earlier article Mediterranean Chud — From Russians to Arabs, From Chud to “Palestinians”, I...
How Semantics Fueled Decades of Confusion Much of the global discussion about the Israel–Palestine conflict begins with a quiet assumption: that two...
DNA, Sovereignty, and the Obsession With Jewish Legitimacy In his interview with U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee, Tucker Carlson did not rant....
If Israel Funded a Parallel “Arab Palestinian” Identity, It Funded Its Own Fracture A recent article titled “Exposé: Israel Invested Millions...