Uri Goldflam

Carl von Clausewitz famously wrote that war is the extension of policy by other means. He meant it as a caution against romanticism. Wars do not erupt from nowhere; they are the end products of political failure, accumulated grievance, and strategic calculation. By that measure, the open war between Israel, the United States and Iran that the world is now witnessing is not a surprise. It is a conclusion. This war was always going to happen. Not necessarily at this exact moment, and not...

We are losing our children. At best, to indifference. At worst, to the ranks of movements that actively seek to delegitimize and dismantle the Jewish State. “As a Jew” Jews, tokenized Jews, deployed as fig leaves in service of anti-Zionist ideologies; what feels like a bitter and particularly loathsome betrayal.   But it’s not entirely their fault. In his state of world Jewry address  last May Dan Senor said: "It is remarkable to see the lengths to which some Jews will go to keep their...

Story telling is as ancient as human beings. Humans live in stories. Stories we tell about ourselves, our families, and our societies help us make sense of reality. Storytelling is the oldest form of identity formation and the bedrock of culture since the dawn of human civilization. I’ll return to this. On my recent speaking tour, I included a slide showing a tweet by a well-followed X account supposably based in Gaza. It read: “Hell is happening now where I live. Pray for us. Gaza.” This...