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Nachum Kaplan

Nachum Kaplan

Nachum Kaplan is a journalist, media consultant and commentator. He has 25 years of international media experience, having held senior international roles at Reuters and IFR (International Financing Review). Access his work on Substack.

The ruthlessness with which the powers to be have crushed protests over the past two months does not suggest that compromise is high on its “to do” list.
U.S. President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu just met to discuss their mutual adversary’s nuclear program. It’s difficult to see what there is to discuss.
In Middle Eastern politics, where democracy is rarer than a good mood, inevitability is the functional equivalent of consent.
It has never wanted peace, coexistence or state-building. Every tactic serves to wage war while posing as a victim.
Australia’s response to the antisemitic massacre in Sydney exposes the West’s enduring refusal to confront the ideology that keeps targeting members of the Jewish community.
The juxtaposition: Some in the Jewish state fantasize about leaving the stresses of the Mideast, as North Americans and Europeans look for a safer address from antisemitism.