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Yochanan SchimmelpfennigThe Times of Israel (Blogs) |
This war has awakened not only a dispute over Israel’s right to defend itself. It has awakened something darker: the question of whether Israel has...
The image is revealing precisely because it refuses the usual comfort of political portraiture. Herzog is neither fully centered nor fully absorbed by...
A War Without a Political Author The raised finger is meant to signal command. But this war no longer looks like command. It looks like a president...
What is breaking in America is not just the balance between republic and oligarchy. What is breaking is the unity of the state itself. One body...
Too Big for the Feet, Too Big for the Office Marco Rubio’s oversized shoes would be easy to dismiss as a meme. That would be a mistake. They are not...
Trump, Netanyahu, and the Fantasy of Exemption Donald Trump’s pressure on Isaac Herzog to pardon Benjamin Netanyahu is not merely crude. It is...
Israel Can Still Strike. It Can No Longer Promise Control. The most dangerous illusion in modern statecraft is not that war is tragic. Everyone knows...
When the Threshold Replaces the Law People keep asking whether the strike was legal. But legality is no longer where such decisions begin. By the time...
The Word “War” Is Doing Too Much Work What matters most in the present confrontation with Iran is not the old question of whether this is...
https://www.timesofisrael.com/isolationist-us-right-wing-commentators-decry-iran-war-trump-says-he-doesnt-care/ The most important line in this story...
The Collapse of Standards I spent the last day scanning the global echoes. What disappoints me is not disagreement. It is the collapse of standards....
The final-scene addiction Modern power keeps trying to look like a final scene: a villain, a righteous strike, a body, a clean hinge in history. The...
If you want a ceasefire to mean anything after the cameras leave, you have to stop treating “aid” as a sacred word and start treating it as a...
When Iran Quotes Goebbels: The Real Target Isn’t Israel – It’s Iranians When an Iranian regime spokesman invokes Joseph Goebbels, he is not...
A society can produce an Exodus without Egypt — not through borders and overt force, but by quietly altering the conditions under which someone can...
A covenant is not union. It is sustained distinction under contact. The Problem of Closeness There is a classical question in mathematics known as the...
Ten percent for an anti-fact governance device: Braun’s “Crown,” 1968 without Jews, and the exportable technology of sacred jurisdiction This is...
When an author stops being an interlocutor and becomes a machine for manufacturing insinuation, the proper response is not to litigate each claim, but...
There is a genre of writing that pretends to describe “what is happening.” In fact it performs prior work: it sets the conditions under which...
The war’s name is a switch, not a description David Horovitz’s warning about the attempt to brand the Gaza war as a “War of Revival” is not...
“Encouraging Migration” Is Not “Extreme.” Extreme Is Our Selective Amnesia Link to the triggering article (for context, not as a moral...
Thought is dangerous: it comes from outside. It obeys no subject and no demand. It is the singular event that passes through the living — witness...
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