Michael Benjamin's Blog

“But in your eyes, your sadness shows.” Harry Nilsson’s lyrics quote is an obscure way to start a blog. I will end it with another, “Going where the weather suits my clothes.” I have spent my whole life trying to explain and beat antisemitism. Born...

Netanyahu and Bennett have become the ‘odd couple’ of Israeli politics. They are like a vindictive mirror image of each other. When one fails where the other failed previously, they crow. When one succeeds where the other succeeds, they belittle the achievements. And the never...

We had heroes, unflawed men of the hour, when I was a boy. Their hour came, and their hour went. Many would claim that Bibi Netanyahu should heed the message, ‘live in your glory.’ Some did not heed the message: Eisenhower, De-Gaulle, Churchill, and Montgomery....

More and more people are becoming vaccinated, which is a good thing, of course.  But there are added factors that are being ignored. More and more people will be wandering around as silent spreaders. When we consider that every variation seems to have increased infectivity,...

Democracy is part of our DNA  which sends messenger RNA (mRNA), empowering all our institutions. Democracy enables a bloodless revolution. We do not have to go out into the streets, fight the police, storm barricades or cause grievous bodily harm. If we think the time...

Elections are about the future. We want the best possible person to lead us there. We can only judge what we know about a person, we should avoid anything else. To do so, we should evaluate our future; what challenges does it bear? Our needs...

Popular wisdom holds that Bibi’s diplomatic skills balance the Corona Catastrophe. I am not sure. Let’s reconsider: Yesterday, I wrote a blog where I question the ‘miracle of the treaties.’ I contend that we have no part in the tripartite imbroglio consisting of Shi’a Iran,...

Nation-states exist in Europe alone. They do not exist in the Middle East. If any state is to exist, it must have an internal cohesion which allows governance. In the Middle East, there are two cohesive forces: religion and peoplehood. People have the same faith...

Nation-states exist in Europe alone. They do not exist in the Middle East. If any state is to exist, it must have an internal cohesion which allows governance. In the Middle East, there are two cohesive forces: religion and peoplehood. People have the same faith...

For my mother and father, any career choice other than medicine was unthinkable. I was destined to leave the Leeds that I knew and I went to a far off planet called Aberdeen. Leeds, I understood; Aberdeen I most certainly did not. I remember in...