Richard Diamond

There is a sentence you will never hear spoken aloud in any foreign ministry, any chancellery, or any presidential press briefing.

Calling for a negotiated settlement to end the Middle East conflict at this moment in history carries roughly the same practical weight as a

The only path to a real solution is the one already underway: the destruction of the regime that makes the problem possible.

The Frame That Houses Arguments: Israel's Most Dangerous Enemy May Be Internal Jewish civilization has a trick, and Israel inherited it.

There is a fact about religious history that most believers prefer not to look at directly: the faiths that proclaim love most loudly have, more often than not, produced the most organized and sustained hatreds.

Remembering the Lessons of Babylon After October 7, after the campus chants, after the harassment and the synagogue security details, many

The Big Bang names not a first moment within time but the ontological inception of this cosmological regime — the constitutive actualization of

From the blog of Richard Diamond at The Times of Israel

Ronit Kertsner's documentary Torn, screening this week, through May 28, in the Times of Israel's DocuNation

There is a comforting story we tell ourselves. It holds that suffering ennobles, that the persecuted become the most reliable guardians against