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Israel is losing sovereignty over east Jerusalem

There are certain neighborhoods in east Jerusalem that would be life-threatening for Jews to step into.

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Big Lies, Blood Libels, and anti-Zionist narrative | Israel National News

A day in the cognitive war against the Jews, perhaps the hottest war, one which will determine the outcome of much else.Op-ed

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Elder Of Ziyon - 05/18 Links Pt2: Denying Jewish Identity Is the Epitome of Anti-Semitism; How the Guardian's anti-Israel bias colours everything

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Why Israel's Arabs Are Its Biggest Threat

Israeli decision-makers are consumed with the lethal threat posed by Iran and its Lebanese proxy Hezbollah, but a no less insidious threat has gone virtually unnoticed: the Israeli Arabs' growing rejection of Israel's Jewish nature and their systematic

Israelis are far too blind to this obvious reality. The influence of American liberalism in the name of (false) “Jewish values,” and Israeli leftism are both major factors for their inability to deal with the more general Arab threat and the direct threat posed by millions of citizens (with full rights) committed to the destruction of your country.

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Elder Of Ziyon - Bullet math - it is more likely that Palestinian bullets killed Shireen Abu Akleh

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Harvard, BDS and the Nazis

  The editors of Harvard’s student newspaper have just urged a boycott of the Jewish state and praised a campus

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Palestinians Lie to Murder Jews; The U.S. Rewards Them

The terrorists and their families are saying that they actually believe the lies of the Palestinian leaders that the mosque is being attacked, violated and desecrated by Jews. They are saying that this is the reason they are sending Palestinians to

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The Palestinian death cult - worshipping the murder of Jews

At its core, the anti-Israel movement is a death cult, a movement that denies truth, craves bloodshed, glorifies violence, and worships death.

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The DeSantis affair The disgraceful politicization of Jewish Institutions

By refusing to allow a conference to be held in its building where Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis was a speaker, New York’s Museum of Jewish Heritage declared itself a partisan institution.Op-ed.

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Progressively Sliding into Antisemitism 

From the blog of Rachel Wahba at The Times of Israel

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Nakba Day: Annual Reminder that Palestinians Learned Nothing from History

The Jews accepted the Partition Plan whereas the Arabs rejected it. In other words, the Jews chose compromise, and the Arabs gambled on war-and lost.

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Israel is not a shtetl, Messrs. Putin and Lavrov | Israel National News

Israel cannot be pushed around, as it was with the Jews in the good old days. At 74, it is a strong, vibrant country-and a democracy. Op-ed.

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Elder Of Ziyon - Proud to be a Zionist - 5782

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How ready is Saudi Arabia for potential normalization with Israel?

  The subject of Israeli-Saudi ties has caught the media headlines in Israel again following an Israel Hayom interview with President Isaac

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Why the Left went from being pro-Israel, Zionism to opposing them

Solidarity with the struggle of the long-persecuted Jews for national freedom was seen as an integral element in an anti-fascist, anti-colonialist, and anti-racist worldview. 

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Jordan's attitude towards Temple Mount is antisemitic and hypocritical

Jordan has demanded that Israel relinquish more control over Temple Mount to the Wakf following the recent terror wave and Temple Mount conflicts.

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Elder Of Ziyon - You Say Nakba, We Say You Fled, Let's Call the Whole Thing Off (Judean Rose)

The real "Nakba" was a disaster of Arab making

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What have we really learned from Yom Ha’Shoah? | Israel National News

Yom Ha’Shoah comes to teach, to remind, to educate and to wake up a sleeping nation. Even in Israel, a major wake-up call is needed.Opinion.

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America’s biblical roots | Israel National News

Do Jews betray a “dual loyalty” when they support Israel? Absolutely not. Jews who support Israel stand for the very best of our American heritage and our American values.Op-ed.

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Elder Of Ziyon - Should the Performance of the Korban Pesach be Illegal in the Jewish State? (Judean Rose)

Every year, Temple Mount activists prepare to perform the Passover offering. Every year, they are arrested.

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Elder Of Ziyon - Let's drop the pretense that Jordan is moderate and wants peace. It is a major and official driver of antisemitic incitement.

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In Every Generation They Rise Up to Destroy Us

There is a word for violent, unprovoked attacks against innocent Jews going about their ordinary lives: pogrom.

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We progress, the Palestinians regress, and so the world turns

  There's no point in searching for a reason or an immediate explanation behind the terrorist attack in Tel Aviv,

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In the 21st century, anti-Zionism means antisemitism

  How many deadly terrorist attacks must take place inside of Israel before it starts being called another intifada? Thursday’s

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The endless ignorance of tying Ukraine needs to Israel’s Iron Dome

Israel couldn’t supply Iron Dome to Ukraine, because Israel has never supplied the system abroad, except to the US.

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Debunking liberal assumptions about Jewish security in Europe

  According to most of the international media, democracy was defeated in this week’s Hungarian election. The victory of incumbent

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Don’t reward Palestinians for a new wave of terror

The Biden administration tried to sabotage an Israeli-Arab summit by raising the Palestinian issue. It shouldn’t use terrorism as an excuse to resurrect the failed policies of the past.

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Elder Of Ziyon - How to Survive in the Middle East (Vic Rosenthal)

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100%. There is only one solution to the problem of Arab terrorism in Israel. How many kore Jewish lives do we lose (G-d forbid) because the government is afraid to do what, very obviously, has to be done.

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The Lesson of Ukraine

Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson, France’s President Emmanuel Macron and US President Joe Biden talk as they arrive at NATO …

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Why liberals fail to equate Israel and Ukraine

The reaction to aggression against each country plays very differently in the anti-Semitic West. Opinion.

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Becoming the strong tribe of the Middle East

   In an interview with Fox News, former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu explained that the fight he led against the

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What Zelenskyy got wrong about Israel

In Israel, one of the most-shared videos in recent weeks shows a Ukrainian soldier named Alex revealing the contents of his military backpack. After waving his night-vision goggles at the camera, he pulls out a Ukrainian-language translation of Golda, a 2009 biography of Kyiv-born former Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir.

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Nationalism goes back into fashion with certain exceptions

  All of a sudden, nationalism is back in fashion. The world isn’t just cheering the heroic efforts of Ukrainians

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Biden’s Unconscionable Empowerment of Both Russia and Iran

U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks to the Democratic National Committee (DNC) Winter Meeting in Washington, U.S., March 10, 2022. …

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Morality propaganda: Ukrainian refugees, Israel, and money

Over the years I have learned to smell propaganda. Being an Israeli means being under constant attack – both overt and covert. We are threatened with physical violence, terrorism, and war. We are also threatened by more sophisticated and elegant methods s

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Why anti-Zionists lie and exaggerate about Israel

Anti-Zionists twist facts and use antisemitism to make Israel look bad.

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Israel & Russia's Invasion of Ukraine: The False Narrative of Israeli Neutrality

The pernicious message that Israel is neutral or silent in this war just because it doesn’t sound the same as the U.S. is simply false.

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Biden Blames the Jews for His Ukraine Policy

The president and his people try to seal a new Iran deal by hanging their appeasement of Putin on Israel

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Amnesty International is no longer a human-rights group, it’s just another ‘progressive’ lobby

If you had any doubts that Amnesty International opposes the very existence of Israel, its executive director just made it crystal-clear: Addressing the...

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The Winner in Ukraine Won't Be Russia or America. It Will Be China. - Tablet Magazine

A seat at the European table won't be too much to ask for the man who saves Europe from nuclear war

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The West is selling out to Iran to lower gas prices

  Like politics, wars can make for strange bedfellows. In the Second World War, even a staunch anti-Communist like Winston

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Washington's betrayal has only just begun

  On Tuesday, the Washington Examiner reported that Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) officers are actively plotting to murder former

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Russia’s Invasion Is a Wake-Up Call for Israel and the West

Destroyed Russian tanks are seen, amid Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, in the Sumy region, Ukraine, March 7, 2022. Irina Rybakova/Press …

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Elder Of Ziyon - Of Ukraine Hero Worship and the Jews (Judean Rose)

Some Jews feel for Ukraine, even as they cannot forget history.

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Elder Of Ziyon - Jewish American Privilege and Ukraine (Forest Rain)

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Future of Democrats and the mainstreaming of antisemitism

  The future of the Democratic Party was summed up in two things that happened this week. One was the

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For the Jews, history repeats itself in Ukraine

Putin claims his aim is "de-Nazification", but it's Putin who's unleashing neo-Nazism

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Elder Of Ziyon - Politically incorrect thoughts about the Russia/Ukraine war

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Stop exploiting the Holocaust, this isn’t a “genocide,” the Russians aren’t Nazis. None of that means that what’s happening isn’t a horrific nightmare for those involved.

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Ukraine Demonstrates Why Nationalism Can Be A Force For Good

What Ukraine has shown, and Europe may be starting to understand, is that nationalism can be a force for good and democracy.

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The lessons for Israel from Russia’s war on Ukraine

Self-reliance is the key to security. Israelis must understand that they should avoid being put in a position where, like the Ukrainians, they must rely on fickle international sympathy.

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Elder Of Ziyon - Israel News: The Ukrainians are Coming--or Not (Judean Rose, UPDATED)

The Ukrainian ambassador to Israel tells a whopper.

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New Zealand’s Jewish problem

What is wrong with this far-away island country? Whence the anti-Israel animus? Op-ed.

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Elder Of Ziyon - Where are the stories of Ukrainian civilian victims?

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Pollak: Ukraine Invasion Means Israel Likelier to Launch Preemptive Strike on Iran

The Russian invasion of Ukraine will have effects beyond Europe, and could push Israel to launch a pre-emptive strike against Iran.

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Ukraine crisis shows Israel the international community won't rescue you

Even though Israel’s presence in Judea and Samaria is fully supported by history and international law, and Russia illegally occupies large parts of Ukraine, accusations against Israel will continue.

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For Israel, victory gives us a future | Israel National News

We are loathe to hit the enemy hard enough to break its will to continue fighting and so have only another war to look forward to. Op-ed.

Great article, and I found t agree more.

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The Naqba dynamic: A sobering analysis of Arab-Jewish relations

The fundamental Arab goal is complete de-Zionization of Israel, meaning canceling the Law of Return and the Jewish Nation-State Law.Op-ed

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Jewish history is under attack

The Jewish heritage been committed to remember our past, treasure our traditions, and pass them on to future generations. When we remember, we can ensure the world the world never forgets.

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America’s future depends on our relationship with Israel

Opinion: "I’m an unapologetic believer in the promises God has laid out in Scripture," writes Dr. David Jeremiah.

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Elder Of Ziyon - Here is what the "progressive" opponents of the Israel Relations Normalization Act of 2021 actually oppose

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Whoopi Goldberg Said What Progressives – Including ADL – Are Thinking About Racism

When Whoopi Goldberg said the Holocaust wasn’t about race, because Nazis and Jews were both white, she voiced what has become unquestioned truth in today’s progressive circles. The ADL, an organization founded to fight Jew-hatred, is complicit.

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Why We Lied to Ourselves About Whoopi Goldberg and Antisemitism

Whoopi Goldberg speaks during the WorldPride 2019 Opening Ceremony, a combined celebration marking the 50th anniversary of the 1969 Stonewall …

At least some people’s mind can be changed and they can get it. The ONLY way to fight antisemitism is to ensure that there are serious consequences for engaging in it. The (idiotic) idea punishing antisemites breeds resentment, and therefore more hatred of Jews is childish. They hate us because they hate us. Allowing them to continue to hate us so that they don’t hate us more is a fundamental misunderstanding of bigotry. It also implies that the targets of antisemitism are sometimes to blame. That is absurd, wrong, and illogical. No Jews, ever, no matter what, is responsible for antisemitism. Bad behavior is only curbed when there are consequences. Everyone knows that. Why do some people want to pretend the “maybe we can get them to like us” strategy has EVER worked?

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To Combat Antisemitism, We Must Oppose Anti-Zionism—at Home and Abroad

Jew-hate will never be snuffed out in an environment in which anti-Zionism is tolerated and condoned.

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The Surge in Holocaust Revisionism

The leader of Holocaust revisionism today is not Whoopi Goldberg but the current Polish government. Opinion.

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My father Elie Wiesel would have been ashamed of Beijing Olympics

Most of the world didn’t seem to know, or care, that the host country is hosting a pageant of “peace and friendship” while simultaneously terrorizing its Uyghur minority.

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Why race isn’t about skin color

At what point did the Jews become so white that the likes of Whoopi Goldberg don’t believe the Holocaust was about race?

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Whoops, Whoopi: the Holocaust was all about race

The celebrity's ignorance reflects the twisted views of an alarming number of people

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Where are the real journalists? 15 questions for Amnesty

Where are the real journalists? Here are fifteen questions for Amnesty International that I would ask. Why is almost nobody else asking them?

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When Israel Can’t Be Blamed, No One Cares About ‘Human Rights’

Israeli security forces prepare to arrest suspects in the Dec. 19 terror attack in Homesh, in the West Bank. Photo: …

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Whoopi Goldberg's gaffe proves that woke 'anti-racism' can all too easily slip into anti-Semitism

Critical Race Theory is constructed so that it can only ever end up landing Jews in the role of the despised

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Whoopi Goldberg Says Holocaust Wasn’t About Targeting Jews. Here’s Why That Matters.

The asininity of Whoopi Goldberg's remarks cannot be overstated here. It is absolutely clear that the Nazis targeted Jews as a race.

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Why Palestinians Dream of a Genocidal Victory

The use of tropes and the appropriation of history have frequently been used by totalitarian regimes to inspire their people to strive for victory. The Nazis often used medieval Norse imagery and mythology, as well as the construction of the idea that

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Amnesty's 'apartheid Israel' calumny

The allegation is unjustified and malicious -- deeply harmful to Israel for those who take it at face value; damaging to Amnesty's credibility for those who know better

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Whoopi Goldberg isn’t the only one who doesn’t understand antisemitism

Of course the Holocaust was about race. But it’s no longer surprising that there’s some dispute about that.

I agree with a lot of this. I think it’s naive to continue to believe that “Goldberg” (her name is Caryn Johnson) really doesn’t know that the Holocaust was about race. At her age-that seems completely absurd. As Jews, we need to stop giving the benefit of the doubt so freely to those who hate us. No one in the media is willing to state the obvious. It’s most likely that “Goldberg” just hates Jews.

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Holocaust Remembrance Day proves everyone loves dead Jews

It was a great day for Israeli diplomacy. For the first time, the UN General Assembly passed a resolution sponsored

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History Lessons: America’s New Antisemitism Begins with Cultural Erasure of American Jews

As a Muslim woman committed to combating radical Islam, also known as Islamism, I research contemporary antisemitism, particularly Islamist antisemitism.

Written by an Arab, Muslim, woman. It’s also extremely accurate.

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American Jews Will Not Cower

A law enforcement vehicle is parked at a school in the area where a man believed to have taken people …

I’ve always hated the stereotype of yeh “weak Jew.” It’s totally false, and too many Jews passively accept that stereotype.

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US Ambassador Thomas Nide's refusal to visit Judea-Samaria Jews - opinion

Nides’s statements are a painful indication that the ambassador wishes to appease the PA’s terrorist dictatorship, radical Islamists and radical leftists.

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The real lesson of the Texas synagogue attack

Few understand the crucial role of antisemitism in Islamist extremism

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I watched the FBI become so woke it can’t call out terrorism

The FBI has made a sea change in defining criminal suspects since the Obama administration and its attorney general, Eric Holder, set out to transform the justice system. Post-Obama, law enforcement hesitates to describe criminal suspects’ race for fear o

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Emily Schrader: BDS is a colonialist movement

BDS self-identifies as a progressive human rights cause, but its goal is to destroy the State of Israel.

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Being Jewish in an Unraveling America - Common Sense

The bad guy was killed. The good guys were saved. But the reaction to the hostage-taking in Colleyville, Texas, should alarm American Jews.

Great column except that it’s not a rabbi in the beginning, but a “rabbi.” And not because she’s a woman, but because 1. Conservative/Reform “rabbis” do NOT receive traditional ordination and 2. The liberal wings of Judaism promote the same ideology, leftism, that has allowed antisemitism to reach heights unseen throughout US history. We need to stop pretending that the leaders of such congregations aren’t part of the problem.

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Elder Of Ziyon - Let's help out the FBI in figuring out why a Muslim terrorist sympathizer might attack synagogues

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Is the US Holding Israel’s Iron Dome Hostage to an Iran Nuke Deal?

While President Biden, Senate, and Congress slow-walk and bicker over replenishing Jerusalem's dwindling defensive missile shield supplies, PM Bennett says his country won't be bound to any rickety renewed nuke deal - nor stand idly by to Iran's increasingly genocidal threats

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A Jewish majority is insufficient to protect Israel

  After their claim to be the peace camp exploded into a million pieces in a hundred suicide bombings, Israel’s

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How the term ‘Arab Jew’ distorts history and slanders Zionism