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What My Parents Didn't Want Me to Hear
And why I don’t sound like an Oleh in Israel.
4 hrs ago
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Eli Kowaz
Israel Has Been Told It Can't Play Since 1948
Before the occupation, before the settlements, before Gaza. Dor Turgeman is 22. The refusal to play his country is 78.
Aug 4
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Eli Kowaz
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July 2026
The Shabbat Morning I Met Bibi
Notes From Tel Aviv, No. 1.
Jul 30
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Eli Kowaz
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Lindsey Graham Told Netanyahu This Would Happen
He flew to Washington knowing everything waiting for him, and went anyway.
Jul 28
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Eli Kowaz
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An Announcement From The Middle Ground
A milestone and something new.
Jul 23
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Eli Kowaz
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Mayor of Netanyahu, not New York
Zohran Mamdani's war-criminal video is a very good piece of work. That's exactly the problem.
Jul 22
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Eli Kowaz
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No Greater Friend
For a few weeks, Israelis had a team that felt like their own. Then the government took it.
Jul 21
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Eli Kowaz
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Politically Homeless in America
This week didn't make liberal Zionists politically homeless. It confirmed they already were.
Jul 16
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Eli Kowaz
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Ro Khanna’s West Bank Theater
On what Ro Khanna went looking for, what he refused to see, and why the distinction is the whole story.
Jul 13
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Eli Kowaz
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Rahm Emanuel Does Not Share Our Fate
Liberal Zionism is the only version that keeps Israel Jewish, democratic, secure, and accepted. Rahm Emanuel came to Tel Aviv to defend it and got…
Jul 9
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Eli Kowaz
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The Only Democracy in the Middle East?
For the first time, an Israeli government has refused to obey its own High Court. In its final weeks before an election, it's dismantling the very thing…
Jul 6
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Eli Kowaz
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What Hersh Goldberg-Polin Weighed
Today marks a thousand days since October 7. Asked this week what the war had done to him, Netanyahu said he'd lost some weight.
Jul 2
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Eli Kowaz
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