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A Ceasefire to End All Ceasefires
Will Israel fully withdraw? Gaza is 41 kilometers (25.5 miles) long and 10 kilometers wide, and, after two years of conflict, the Israeli army said it controlled most of the coastal enclave. The peace agreement sponsored by US President Donald Trump says Israel would not control or annex Gaza, and that Israeli troops should withdraw…
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The Age of the Knot-Cutter
We are living in the age of the knot-cutter. Our President This is not a comment on ideology or party, but on a style of leadership that emerges when complexity feels intolerable. The knot-cutter is a figure who confronts entanglement—social, geopolitical, cultural, institutional—and concludes that the problem is not the strands themselves, but the time…
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Prosperity, Discipline, and the Moral Divide in American Thought
One of the deepest moral tensions in American political culture lies between two competing explanations for social stability: whether prosperity is sustained by individual discipline or by collective management. The warning that the “greatest danger to the American moral mission is prosperity without discipline” expresses a classical civic fear—that wealth, comfort, and success can erode…
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“Mark the Knife”
The Moment the Knife Enters the Story; the Reiner Tragedy In criminal trials, there is a moment when uncertainty dies. It is not when emotions rise, nor when histories of neglect or trauma are recounted. It is not even when voices are raised or relationships fracture. The decisive moment arrives more quietly, often midway through…
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THE ONE WHO MADE ROOM
A Poetic Book of Abraham Martin Ademovic Dedication To those who walkbefore they understand,and to the truthsthat arrivebefore language. Table of Movements I. The Gods Who StayedII. The DisturbanceIII. The First LeavingIV. Faith Before BeliefV. What Could Not Yet Be SeenVI. God Learns TimeVII. Death Without FulfillmentVIII. ExileIX. Imagination at WorkX. The Name Becomes MeaningXI.…
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More “Facts” about God
1. Clarifying the Idea: “Abraham’s Faith” My original concept emphasizes that Abraham is remembered as the one in whom faith in the unseen became a decisive religious force. That idea is not originally a historical description of a Bronze Age tribal chief—it is the product of centuries of theological imagination, liturgical memory, and literary elaboration.…
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“Imagination Created Fact” in the Abraham Tradition
The phrase “imagination created fact” describes a well-known dynamic in the formation of ancient traditions: communities imagine a meaningful past and, through the power of repeated telling, that imagined past becomes authoritative, formative, and socially real.
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Israel Issues in the Near Future
a war of consciousness is arguably the most accurate description of the phase Israel (and the broader region) may be entering. If we unpack that idea, several layers emerge: 1. From Territory to Meaning Traditional wars were fought over land and sovereignty. Today, Israel’s challenges are increasingly about narrative, identity, and legitimacy.Control over physical space…
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Israel: An Imaginative Nation and the Burden of Its Dreams
Israel is a nation born of imagination. From the earliest stirrings of Zionism to the establishment of the modern state in 1948, the Jewish people transformed centuries of exile, memory, and aspiration into a tangible homeland. Hebrew, once a sacred language confined to prayer, was reimagined as a spoken tongue. Marshes were imagined as fertile…
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In the Beginning: Light
The Song of Beginnings and a Word became Light. In the hush before time, when silence wrapped the deep,there was only mystery—darkness brooding over waters without name.Then a voice stirred the silence, a whisper that became a word,and the word became light. Light spilled across the void, dividing night from day,and the dance of hours…
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