When Israel withdrew from Lebanon in 2000, many hoped Hezbollah would demobilize. Instead, it entrenched. The withdrawal wasn't an ending for them -- it was a proof of concept.

New piece on A Jewish Voice traces the road from the withdrawal to UN Resolution 1559: what the international community demanded, why it couldn't deliver, and what that failure set in motion.

Part 1 of a longer series on Hezbollah in Southern Lebanon.

https://ajewishvoice.blogspot.com/2026/05/the-end-of-one-war-beginning-of-another.html

New piece on A Jewish Voice: Western commentary on Israel-Palestine keeps getting it wrong — not for lack of moral seriousness, but because it applies rational-actor frameworks to actors operating in an eschatological register.

I write about what religious extremism actually feels like from the inside, Scott Atran's Devoted Actor research, and how this conflict is being theologized from both sides.

https://ajewishvoice.blogspot.com/2026/04/when-framework-is-problem-religious.html

#Israel #Palestine #ReligiousExtremism #MiddleEast #Analysis

New piece on A Jewish Voice:

Five weeks in, the IRGC is still shooting. Air power is degrading Iran's hardware, but it cannot dissolve the loyalty calculations of 300,000 security personnel, and it cannot answer the question every Iranian must ask before acting: what comes after?

The Hormuz choke point, the midterm clock, and the missing ground threat: why the war's instruments and its objectives may be fundamentally misaligned.

https://open.substack.com/pub/ajewishvoice/p/the-missing-piece-why-air-power-alone

#Iran #IRGC #Trump

Ben-Gvir is celebrating the death penalty bill as his great victory.

Meanwhile, ordinary Israelis are still struggling with the same cost of living, the same housing crisis, the same security anxieties this government has done nothing to address.

Don't be mistaken, this is a fascist politician using a corrupt coalition to pass a law that costs him nothing and signals everything to his base.

We didn't get cheaper rent. We got executions.

#Israel #IsraeliPolitics #BenGvir

Iran uses cluster munitions on civilian areas. Amnesty International has documented the use of children as soldiers. Neighboring countries live under the shadow of Tehran's expansionism.

Yet Western streets fill with marchers defending this regime.

Moral clarity is not optional.

#Iran #HumanRights #ClusterMunitions #ChildSoldiers #IRGC #DoubleStandards

Sitting in the shelter with neighbors while my wife is out picking up the kids.

I'm not scared for myself. But not knowing if she has somewhere to go — that's a different kind of hard.

This is what war looks like from the inside. Not always explosions. Sometimes just waiting, and the silence between messages.

🇮🇱 #Israel #LifeUnderFire #ItsHumanToWorry

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Created this profile a year ago, said nothing. Felt like the
world had enough noise already.

Still does. But here we are.

The world is loud, angry, and everyone seems to be talking past
each other. This isn't that. This is a journal, my thoughts,
my experiences, my reality as a human being who happens to be
a Jew living in Israel. Nothing more, nothing less.

I'm aware my reality is complicated. I'm also aware that others
have it harder. Both things can be true.