The Axis of Evil on the Couch
After two years of surprises, Axis of Evil looks like a beautiful idea from the 2000s that got stuck in 2026 without a version update.
After two years of surprises, Axis of Evil looks like a beautiful idea from the 2000s that got stuck in 2026 without a version update.
Those who want to integrate – welcome, those who want to undermine, incite and justify terror – should not be surprised when they stop calling it “complex”.
Coming this fall to a conflict zone near you: the geopolitical soap opera where yesterday’s enemy is tomorrow’s BFF – and the only constant is chaos.
“In the Middle East, peace isn’t the opposite of war—it’s just foreplay.”
כשחושבים על זה, אין כלי שמסמל טוב יותר את הדינמיקה הישראלית־פלסטינאצית מאשר דחפורי ה־D9: חפירה מתמדת במציאות, עם הרבה רעש, אבק וקצת הומור שחור
When I hear “from the river to the sea,” I don’t think of scenery. I don’t think of a trip. I don’t think of peace. I hear, simply, “We want you to disappear.”
We know that won’t happen – not because we believe in fairies, but because we know how to swim in the river, and protect the sea.
So true, we are a sweaty, loud, messy people.
But also a people with a heart the size of a Negev, and courage the size of an entire country.
Love for Israel is not a Hollywood story. It is not divided into a smooth plot with a sweet ending. It is a different kind of love – one born of commitment, not romance. It involves queues at the health insurance company, curses on the road, rent that reeks of fraud – and yet, it is a deeper, more burning love, the kind that leads people to fly here precisely when the sky is thundering.
This is no longer an ordinary war. This is not a fight over territory, resources or national honor. This is not about Hamas, Hezbollah or the parking lot inspector. This is about the internal, real, most instinctive struggle there is – the war between the belly and the cauliflower.
Anyone who has ever sat for an hour and a half in a shelter with 11 residents, two babies, and a small radio that screams “The alarm is over – you can leave” every five minutes – will tell you the truth: The most threatening thing about war is that the mold in the shelter will come out of it with more public presence from the Chief of Staff.