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Thoughts and Ideas
While in the Daily File we present the terrible outcomes of the Israeli policy towards the Palestinian world, this blog will look at what stands behind this policy and will suggest thoughts about a different outlook on things, ideas for a different kind of conduct, highlight possibilities that the Israeli government ignores, opinions on why things happen as they happen, and so on. Here you will be able to connect the dots and form a bigger picture – so we wouldn’t be able to say we didn’t know.
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Yom Kippur, Oct 1st, 2025
Yom Kippur carries so many meanings across so many layers of life. It might be the most important day from a religious point of view, one...
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Starvation
One of the horrors Israel is using in Gaza is deliberate starvation. Israel prevented aid trucks from entering the Strip for many months,...
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What do you call what’s happening in Gaza?
This text was initiated by Iris, out of that awful feeling shared by the few who actually follow what Israel is doing in Gaza. She then...
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Teacher for Democratic Life, Part 2
Today I’m bringing part 2 of the conversation with Meir Baruchin – where he talks about politics and education, about education for...
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Teacher for Democratic Life - Part 1
Meir Baruchin, a civics and history teacher who was fired by the Petah Tikva Municipality over Facebook posts but was reinstated...
Ayala Shalev's HangoutAlmost two years
It’s almost two years since the October 7 massacre in the Gaza Envelope, two years since the beginning of the slaughter in the Gaza...
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Barricades are not security
A few weeks ago, I traveled to Umm al-Khair and Susya , deep inside the occupied territories, and saw the barricades Israel had closed...
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A Tale of Two NICUs
One of the most heartbreaking outcomes of the ongoing fighting in Gaza is Israel’s use of starvation as a weapon, which has already...
Ayala Shalev's HangoutThe Story of Odeh Hathalin
Can We Talk About Justice in a World of Occupation? About a week and a half ago, on July 28, the settler Yinon Levi entered the village...
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If we don’t rise up now, then when will we?!
For nearly two years now, every day we wake up to a new horror, and every night we go to sleep with another, each one the work of the...
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Zen and the Art of Tactical Felonizing of the Digger Operator
A holocaust is unfolding in Gaza, a holocaust of our own making. For nearly two years we’ve bombed from the air daily, maneuvered and...
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For the Children
Amidst the inferno that Israel is unleashing in Gaza, it’s impossible not to shrink back and shudder at the unimaginable number of nearly...