“We Came to Banish the Darkness” – Between the Light of Reason and the Smartphone Flashlight
The West has forgotten itself… Israel remembers too much
And the light? It’s still there – but it takes courage to turn it on.
December 21, 2025
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What They’re Really Selling When They Scream “Religious Coercion” and Go Silent When It’s Islamization
A post with a dash of humor and a dash of sadness about the astonishing gap between two words that are not really similar, but for some reason are labeled as “the same thing”:
December 20, 2025
A Pessimistic Post About a Nation Torn Apart
The rift will not be closed with a speech, nor a reconciliation post, nor a fake hug in the studio.
It will only be closed when one side stops lying or when the other side stops apologizing.
December 19, 2025
We Came to Banish the Darkness
How a Small Nation in the Middle East Became One of the Last Bastions of Freedom and National Pride in the 21st Century
December 18, 2025
When the Sky Refused to Stay Silent: How Fate Decided to Steal the Punchline
The historical irony that the “Al-Aqsa Flood” ended in the flood of the Byron rainstorm in Gaza – without embellishment, without apology, moral irony, bitter satire, and the Israeli feeling that reality itself is responding to the terrible crime of October 7th.
The poetic-symbolic revenge of reality / history / nature and the believers – revenge that came from forces above …
December 13, 2025
Hanukkah: The Only Jewish Holiday Where We Light Fire and Everyone Actually Agrees Why
There are big holidays, there are important holidays, and there is Hanukkah – the holiday that reinvents itself every generation: once a national heroic story, then a miracle of oil, then a children’s holiday, then a 15-shekel donut holiday.
December 12, 2025
A Local Shower With Gusts of Panic
Remember the good old days, when rain was just… rain? When gray skies received at most a footnote like “Take an umbrella,” and not an emergency flash on the front page that made you think aliens had landed in Ayalon Canyon?
December 11, 2025
What the Academia Is Trying to Sell Us – Now That “Zionism” Is Practically a Curse Word in Philosophy Halls
If there is an institution that was once a beacon of knowledge, and now looks more like a broken lantern in a park in southern Tel Aviv – it is the academy.
Because what was once a place where truth was sought, today is a place where your identity is sought – to know if you are allowed to speak.
December 10, 2025
What They’re Really Selling You When They Say “All Religions Are the Same”
And this time, a satirical column, sharp but not inflammatory, that seeks to address one of the popular slogans of the humanist-relativist era.
December 8, 2025
What They’re Trying to Sell Us Under the Label of “The Intellectual Left”
Once upon a time, when you said “intellectual,” you imagined someone sitting in a library with a mustache, opening thick volumes, asking deep questions and trying to understand the human soul.
Today, an intellectual is someone who has a subscription to Haaretz, three articles in the Open University – and a solid opinion on why you, who lives in Netivot, simply don’t understand complexities.
December 7, 2025
