In the State of Israel, there is a mysterious epidemic of phones falling at exactly the wrong moment.
Ask the senior police officers, the prosecutor’s office, the army – they all suffer from the same disease: “cell phone infection is too sensitive.”
When naivety meets reality, and discovers that she was wearing a kippah and got stabbed in the back
If there’s one thing Europe knows how to do well – besides lapping up alcohol – it’s imparting morality.
Centuries of conquests, world wars, colossal genocides – and today? They are humanists. Enlightened. Morally responsible.
Americans are now discovering what we in Israel learned a long time ago: tolerance is great – until someone takes advantage of it to take control of you.
Why is everyone allowed to be proud – except you?
Imagine a strange, almost imaginary world – one day you wake up, turn on the news – and there is no new ruling from the High Court of Justice that determines what the government should really do, who is allowed to be a minister, and what kind of coffee is allowed to be poured at government meetings.
There is no petition on security policy, no intervention in the composition of the coalition, no ruling that reinterprets the meaning of the word “law.”
Rabin was assassinated – and we all lost, but whoever tried to turn the assassination into a permanent political currency is the one who really killed the possibility of a healthy discourse.
Thirty years later, maybe it’s time to stop the festival, and start understanding that democracy wasn’t assassinated then – it was simply hijacked since then.
Yes, the destroyers and ruiners are among us — in faculty lounges, film festivals, and NGOs with suspiciously generous grants.
But they won’t win.
Because even if they hate themselves, we love this country enough for both of us.
“Excuse me, I was just asking” – this is how most moments that don’t end well in Israel begin.
This is one of the most brilliant passive-aggressive brilliances of Israeli culture: a trial that begins with light-hearted politeness, and ends with legal drama, public use or a viral column on Facebook.
If New York really does elect Zohran Mammadani, it will be definitive proof that the city that has been through 9/11, Trump, and Blattner in Times Square – has failed to survive progressivism.
But hey, at least they will have a city free of guilt: no struggle, no crime, no homeless people, no progressive snobbery, no anti-Semitism, no Muslim immigrants… but guilt
What Are They Trying to Sell Us in the Name of “The Protest”
November 30, 2025
