When Europe says “you are part of us” – it is worth checking where the nearest exit to the airport is.
Preferably towards Ben-Gurion.
“Most Muslims are peace-loving” is a sentence that is roughly equivalent to “most people love peace.” True. But when you bring in 2 billion people with a culture that sees democracy, equality, and freedom as “infidels,” then this peace is just a pause between attacks.
An essay about a rare but familiar creature, who arrives in Thailand without knowing English – and leaves with friends from all over the world, sunburns and stories for a lifetime.
Maybe the word “awakening” is not accurate … because it’s not that we woke up from something – we remembered.
We remembered who we are, where we live … and what the price of forgetting is.
The Exodus from Egypt was not an end, it was a beginning.
And the Jewish people, as always, are still halfway there – with many successes, with quite a few mistakes.
And with an amazing ability to keep going, even when there is no map.
So is European culture terminally ill? Probably not.
But it certainly sometimes looks like a person who comes to the doctor with a long list of symptoms: identity confusion, political fatigue, and a little too much ideology on an empty stomach.
Next time someone rolls their eyes and asks, “What’s the deal with not touching?”, the honest answer is simple: it’s not fear of sex. It’s a deep suspicion that really good things, without limits, tend to end badly.
Sometimes, the most dangerous thing in the Middle East is not a missile but a miss.
Those who cannot stand against regimes of oppression
should not lead the human rights discourse.
In Israel 2025, you have complete freedom to express anything, as long as you express what the system likes to hear.
What Are They Trying to Sell Us in the Name of “The Protest”
November 30, 2025
