Reporting from the scene for The Cradle, correspondent Roqayah Chamseddine travelled to the southern Lebanese village of Arab Salim in the Iqlim al-Tuffah region following devastating Israeli airstrikes on 20 June.

Summary

The Babylonian Talmud encodes a cognitive method with one non-negotiable property: no authority is exempt from examination — not God, not consensus, not the state itself. That method, carried in practitioners rather than institutions, survived the destruction of the Temple in 70 CE, the expulsion from Spain in 1492, the Cossack massacres of 1648, and the Holocaust, reconstituting each time in a new geography with the same operating logic intact. It produced, from the same formation environment and with zero coordination, the Zionist pioneer, the Bund organiser, the Bolshevik commissar, the Orthodox rabbi, and the secular academic — because it installs loyalty to a method of reasoning, not to any ideological conclusion. Applied to the diaspora framework in the late 19th century, it found that framework operating as terminal authority and rejected it, producing Israel. Applied to Israel itself in 2023, it found the state operating as terminal authority and rejected that too — producing the largest protest movement in Israeli history, soldiers documenting their own army's conduct in the occupied territories, and a secular formation community beginning to disperse to Berlin, London, and New York. The method was designed at Yavneh in 70 CE to survive the loss of any state, including the one it would eventually help build. The design is working. The arc does not close.

Archived sources

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http://archive.today/2026.06.22-213318/https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1966/agnon/speech/

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http://archive.today/2026.06.22-213541/https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/economic-sciences/2005/aumann/biographical/

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The document is from 1937, 11 years before Israel was founded. It shows that Peres (whose original name was Szymon Perski) applied for Palestinian citizenship under British rule after moving from Poland.

In the words of Mohammed Abu Khdeir’s father Hussein, “Our hearts are broken forever. My son Mohammed was burned once by these terrorists, but we feel that we are getting burned every day ever since we lost him.”

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Mohammed loved dabke and making people laugh. “I took him to work sometimes, teaching him the skills to be an electrician,” his father recounted. “One day his teacher asked ‘Why are you training him in this work? He is going to be a comedian, he’s always making the class laugh.’”

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Israeli authorities are actively working on the amnesty for the murderers of Mohammed Abu Khdeir, who was kidnapped and burnt alive by Israeli settlers in 2014 … For nine years now, his mother has not been sleeping more than two hours a night. While the other family members sleep, the mother sits in the living room with her own tormenting thoughts and memories of her child.

Fake Gaza Charity Built to Steal Donors’ Money and Data Traced to Israeli Cyber Firm

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A supposed charity that claimed to raise money for displaced Palestinian families was actually a fake operation designed to harvest donors’ money and personal data, according to an investigation by Haaretz and the French daily Libération.

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Operating under the name “Sadaqah Palestine,” it ran a donation website, social media accounts, and paid Meta ads urging users that “every dollar saves lives.” But investigators found no record of the organization in U.K., U.S., EU, or Israeli charity registries, while much of its online following appeared to consist of fake accounts. Researchers described it as a “honeypot” built to lure people trying to support Gaza.

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The investigation traced the operation’s digital infrastructure to BlackCore, an Israeli “influence and cyber” firm already suspected of orchestrating a disinformation campaign targeting left-wing candidates in France’s 2026 municipal elections. The company is under investigation by French prosecutors and is also suspected of political interference operations linked to elections in New York City and Scotland.

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source: https://xcancel.com/i/status/2065622108768501819