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Yochanan SchimmelpfennigThe Times of Israel (Blogs) |
There is a moment in every conflict when the greatest danger is no longer the missile, the ultimatum, or even the regime itself. It is the word that...
What is now emerging from Washington is not merely a decline in tone. It is a decline in political form. On April 5, 2026, Donald Trump did not...
A Jewish state must defend Jewish life. But the moment force begins to sound self-justifying, something has already gone wrong. Jewish history does...
How Fake Precision Manufactures Civilizational Claims Not every dangerous fiction now arrives as propaganda. More and more often, it arrives as a...
The Order After the Citizen The Golem returns not as myth, but as infrastructure. The citizen is no longer the subject of order, but its managed...
Before Passover, Jews perform a strangely delicate act. We search the house by candlelight for crumbs. Not for furniture. Not for walls. Not for the...
The State That Weakens Itself: Compression, Not Confidence On March 30, 2026, the Knesset passed the Penal Law (Amendment – Death Penalty for...
The Problem Is Not Only the Deal. It Is Also the Dealer. David Horovitz is right to identify the visible danger. If Donald Trump seeks an agreement...
המרכבה נוסעת, והכיסא ריק Ha-merkavah nosa’at, veha-kise rik. The chariot keeps moving, but the throne is empty. State Without a...
People keep saying that democracy is in danger because we have lost seriousness. That diagnosis is too flattering. It suggests that what stands...
The New Idolatry Does Not Look Like an Idol The old fear was simple: one day, people would worship machines. The new danger is more intimate and far...
Does Israel Have an Ethical Dome? Iron Dome intercepts rockets. Arrow reaches higher. David’s Sling fills the space in between. Israel has learned,...
The university was supposed to be the place where a person entered as a mind, not as a tribal suspect. It was supposed to be the one institution in...
Betrayal with Excellent Manners There is a specific kind of Jewish failure that war exposes very quickly. It is not the primitive failure of blind...
The gravest danger in this war may not be defeat. It may be relief. Not relief at destruction. Not relief at death. Not relief at escalation. Relief...
We were never the sum of what we know. One of modernity’s deepest illusions was the belief that human beings govern themselves through knowledge, as...
I write this as a Jew, and not from the neutral air of commentary. I write from within Jewish reality, and from within one of its fractures. I do not...
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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