December 15, 2025

Preserving the Carcasses of Dead Houses

By David Haldane Dec. 14, 2025     The devastation was devastating. Block after block stacked with the carcasses of dead houses. Walls punctured by bullet […]
October 20, 2025

A Tearful Homecoming

By David Haldane Oct. 20, 2025     They’re back! Defying global fears that the war in Gaza would never end, all 20 of the surviving […]
October 6, 2025

Hate Invades an Idyllic Philippine Island

By David Haldane Oct. 6, 2025     It feels like something a Nazi might say. “If Chabad House is legal,” Maria Tokong wonders on Facebook, […]
September 14, 2025

Wailing at the Western Wall

By David Haldane Sept. 14, 2025   It hit me like a stone. One minute I was standing awkwardly at Jerusalem’s historic Western Wall wondering what […]
September 1, 2025

Let My People Go: Israeli Protesters Shouting in the Wrong Direction!

  By David Haldane Sept.1, 2025     I was departing for dinner in Jerusalem when a human storm swept me into its core. “Bring them […]
August 25, 2025

A Bleeding Nation

By David Haldane August 25, 2025     The pain is everywhere. You see it on the posters massed in random places bearing the pictures of […]
June 15, 2025

Greta Thunberg: Entertaining the World

By David Haldane June 16, 2025   I promised myself not to write about her again. Greta Thunberg, the child activist famous for her attention-grabbing antics, […]
May 5, 2025

What I Hope for in a New Pope

  By David Haldane May 5, 2025     It’s almost never suitable to speak ill of the dead. Especially when the dead you’re speaking of […]
April 21, 2025

Israel Thriving in the Philippines

  By David Haldane April 21, 2025     This was going to be a column about Middle Eastern politics. How suffering Gazans had finally risen […]
April 7, 2025

Deporting Radicals

By David Haldane April 7, 2025     I understand why students protest. As an undergraduate at UCLA in the late 1960s, I spent a fair […]
January 6, 2025

Filipino Cardinal Leaps Aboard a Sinking Ship

  By David Haldane Jan. 6, 2025     I thought I was done with this subject for a while. Two weeks ago, I wrote a […]
December 2, 2024

Confession: Hamas Made Me Vote for Trump

  By David Haldane Dec. 2, 2024     I’m ready to confess something that most regular readers of this column have probably already guessed. I […]