by Matthew Friedman | Dec 31, 2023 | Commentary, Gaza Journal
I have to ask what would happen if Washington simply stopped making “emergency weapon sales” to the State of Israel. Would Israelis suddenly find themselves in peril? Would the IDF suddenly grind to a halt? Or, would it just become that much more difficult...
by Matthew Friedman | Dec 24, 2023 | Commentary, Gaza Journal
I have been posting in social media about the War on Gaza, and collecting these posts in weekly installments in The Typescript for more than two months. It began as an act of witness and resistance. The Holocaust historian Yehuda Bauer wrote in Rethinking the...
by Matthew Friedman | Dec 17, 2023 | Commentary, Gaza Journal
I have always expected a rupture in Am Yisroel; the definitive and irreconcilable cleavage between the Jews of Zionism and the rest of us. But I did not expect it to come so soon, or with such vehemence. I really don’t believe that there will be any going back...
by Matthew Friedman | Dec 10, 2023 | Commentary, Gaza Journal
Chanukah is coming. If you know me at all, you will know that I have conflicted feelings about the holiday. I welcome any holiday that brings us together as a community, and as a people, to share our heritage. I love the lights and the latkes, and it was always a...
by Matthew Friedman | Dec 3, 2023 | Commentary, Gaza Journal
What else can we call the warnings from the Israeli government – and from Benjamin Netanyahu himself – for Gazan civilians to seek safety, and the claims it is working to create “safe areas” for civilians to evacuate to, but “Compassion...
by Matthew Friedman | Nov 26, 2023 | Commentary, Gaza Journal
The truce began today. I choose to call it this, since there is something ghoulish about the word “pause.” That sounds like a brief, unexpected, and unwelcomed interruption, like when the referee in a boxing match “pauses” the fight just long enough to be sure that...
