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Sabine SterkThe Times of Israel (Blogs) |
Israel Carries the Real Cost Recent developments in the Iran war have once again exposed a reality many outside the region prefer to ignore. When...
Back to the Future. Did Anything Become Better? Today it is April 30th, 1978. My father opened the tent after a good night’s sleep somewhere in the...
Recognition Fuels Israel Advocacy July 2016 marked a moment I will never forget. It was nearly two years after I had started my Pro Israel advocacy...
Truth Over Politeness on Israel How long can we stay politically correct when it comes to Israel’s existence? I ask this seriously. I grew up in the...
Exposing the Myth of Jewish Control The idea that Jews are rich, greedy, or secretly controlling the world is one of the oldest and most dangerous...
The exit of Lenny Kuhr, a national icon and winner of the 1969 Eurovision Song Contest, with the song “de Troubadour,” should be the final siren...
In the Netherlands, where I live, public discussion about Israel often feels unusually certain. People speak with confidence about a conflict far...
There is something deeply unsettling about the casual way reality gets rewritten in the modern world, especially when it comes to Israel. You land at...
Blind Spots and Bias Against Israel In the Netherlands, something striking has taken hold in public discourse. A country far removed from the...
Where do we get our facts about Israel? For most people, the first answer is simple: newspapers. That assumption feels logical, even safe. Yet the...
The Global Narrative on Israel Is Deeply Misguided Around the world, anti Israel protests have become a kind of ritual. Crowds gather, slogans are...
Imagine being a young woman in Israel who looks completely ordinary. Your hair is a bit thin, your teeth are not perfectly straight, maybe your nose...
There is something about Israel that refuses to be explained in rational terms. You can analyze politics, history, conflict, economics. You can debate...
Jews, be careful of betrayal within. There, I said it. It is a very harsh sentence, but I fear I have touched on the core reason why Israel advocacy...
Why Peace Keeps Failing Peace between Israelis and their neighbors has been attempted so many times that the pattern itself has become impossible to...
On April 11, 1961, the world was forced to sit still and listen. The trial of Adolf Eichmann began in Jerusalem, and with it came something that had...
Israel Stands While the World Looks Away After the so-called deal of the century was revealed years ago, there was a brief moment when hope felt real...
Take Back the Narrative: Reclaiming Identity, History, and Even the Watermelon There is a growing realization among many supporters of Israel that the...
Honesty is one of those virtues we love to claim for ourselves. It is clean, noble, uncomplicated. It means telling the truth, being transparent, and...
Ceasefire Betrayal Leaves Israel Exposed There are moments in history when hesitation is not just a mistake but a danger. This is one of them. Many...
The debate is often framed as complex, nuanced, and open to interpretation, but in reality the truth is far more direct. Antizionism and antisemitism...
I grew up in the Netherlands in a secular family, shaped more by observation than belief. We had a deep respect for Jewish culture and religion, and,...
Truth Beyond the Noise I am a practical human being. I do not approach conflict through slogans, nor do I find comfort in emotional bandwagons. I look...
The Lie the World Wants to Believe The guns may be quieter in Gaza, but something far uglier has only grown louder. Across social media, in protests,...
Enough Lies Israel Will Not Apologize Ask the average person why there is war in the Middle East and you will hear the same reflex answer. Israel is...
In today’s media landscape, a troubling pattern has emerged. Whenever a journalist is harmed in a war zone involving Israel, the immediate global...
I have said it before and I will say it again. Living in the Netherlands today, the moment the word Israel is mentioned, something snaps in people. It...
An Open Letter to the Israeli Immigration Office I am writing to you from the Netherlands as a woman who has carried Israel in her heart for most of...
Survival of the Fittest: The Cultural Divide the West Still Pretends Doesn’t Exist There is a truth Western societies have spent decades avoiding...
Israel Cannot Win the Narrative War, No Matter What It Does There is a pattern so obvious that it should no longer be ignored, yet it continues to...
How Artificial Intelligence Is Eroding Our Moral Compass and Intelligence For more than twelve years, I have written daily about Israel and the...
History Cannot Be Rewritten Into Existence There is a difference between interpretation and fabrication. That line is being crossed with increasing...
War, Peace, and Life in Three Faiths If you look at Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, the three traditions most often pulled into debate, you find...
From Isolation to Renewal: Israel’s Path For decades, South Africa stood as one of the most isolated nations in the international system. The root...
The signs are no longer subtle. Hate is back in the streets, visible, loud, and increasingly dangerous. Soldiers are back in the cities, armed and...
For years, Israelis have lived with a kind of fear that is difficult to fully grasp from a distance. It is the fear of sirens in the middle of the...
Strip away slogans and political framing, and a more technical reality emerges, one shaped not by activists or headlines but by those who study and...
Imagine there was no Jew hatred. No whisper of poison carried through centuries. No sermons of blame. No myths about secret power or ancient curses....
Understanding the symbolism behind flags used by Hamas is essential to grasp how the group presents itself to different audiences and why this creates...
When Peace Replaced Trust With Fear In the late 1970s, my parents had Israeli friends who represented something deeply human and often forgotten in...
How many fronts is Israel really fighting on? Ask the question casually and the answer seems simple. Seven fronts. That is what analysts,...
A Tiny Land of Miracles Israel is a small country on the map, but its landscape tells a story far larger than its size. Within only a few hours of...
The world has shown a striking double standard, mourning distant tragedies while ignoring the horrors faced by Israel. While Israel endured one of the...
When Hatred Is Tolerated, It Spreads I regularly post on a large pro Israel Facebook page. What I see there shocks me to the core. Under posts...
Let me say the quiet part out loud. The elephant in the room is Christianity and its relationship with Israel. Honesty is rarely welcomed. I know that...
Israel’s Knesset: Democracy in the Middle East Israel is often criticized in international debates, yet one of the most important facts about the...
The Wrong Side of History It is difficult to understand how anyone can sincerely claim to stand on the right side of history while supporting the so...
Silence Is Not Safety Is hiding your identity a sign of cowardice, or is it wisdom? This is a painful question many Jews in Europe are asking...
There is a moment in life when you realise that the place you were born is not the place where your soul belongs. People today identify as all sorts...
The last decade has felt like an endless war for Israel. Rockets, terror attacks, border conflicts, and international condemnation seem to arrive in...
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