
A Wild and Improbable Story Hits Israel
It turns out that claim about Israel being a democracy wasn’t just propaganda. The two million Arabs who live in the world’s only Jewish state really do have the power to vote.

It turns out that claim about Israel being a democracy wasn’t just propaganda. The two million Arabs who live in the world’s only Jewish state really do have the power to vote.

Suddenly, after years of lecturing Israel about being “too violent,” Macron was calling in his army to deal with out-of-control rioters, declaring that “those who sought to bring down the Republic will be held accountable.”

Sleep-deprived and anxious, I called my friend Yossi Klein Halevi in Jerusalem in the hope that it might bring some relief to my nervous system.

Of course not. A scene of angry French Jews burning down government buildings is as likely as a UFO sighting.

Having a brain and a voice that are intact means he can continue doing what he loves most: sharing his ideas with the world.

How can something as beautiful as the search for a meaningful life connect to something as evil as murder?

We have a bunker buster: 10,000 words of evidence that Hamas committed genocide on Oct. 7. What are we planning to do with it?

Memorials, especially a memorial for an unspeakable tragedy, are a reminder that, in the end, we can never really “move on.”

Even on this singular day to honor the victims of Oct. 7, the mayor kept the poison coming.

Perhaps Sept. 30 showed up right before we paid tribute to Oct. 7 to deliver this message: Remember the tragedies but never forget the miracles.



