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What Israelis Deserve

Dear nations of the world complaining about Israeli self-defense actions: None of this is for you. Israel’s security is first and foremost about Israel’s security. Yet the people who live

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A modern pogrom through history’s lens

Though it has only been a year, some things have become clear since Oct. 7.

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Israel’s dangerous bet on deradicalization

The basis of the Palestinian national identity systematically erases all Jewish connection to our ancestral homeland.

Great piece that illustrates one of Netanyahu’s weak spots. The idea that the Arabs can ever be regimes is absurd. Centuries of indoctrination, most “courtesy” of their cultish religion, is dangerous and naive.

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Four Illusions Shattered by October 7th

As we face the New Year, it’s time to embrace the sobering reality that October 7th brought home.

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Elder Of Ziyon - Calling All Jewish Democrats: It's An Emergency

Blogging about Israel and the Arab world since, oh, forever.

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This wasn’t a war crime – it was an audacious assault on anti-Semites

The left’s crazy wailing over the exploding Hezbollah pagers shows that Israel can’t do right for doing wrong.

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Tucker Carlson – The anti-William F. Buckley

Where Buckley worked to kick the crazies, the conspiracy theorists, the bigots, and the antisemites out of the Conservative movement and thereby the Republican Party, Carlson has made it his mission to bring them back. Opinion.

Tucker Carlson is despicably antisemitic-that has been obvious for one dyne years.

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The Plot To Make October 7 the New Nakba

Some anti-Zionist tactics develop over decades. Once they do, however, they provide anti-Semites with a cookie-cutter template so that other versions can roll right off the assembly line. The most

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Harris-Walz Are NOT Pro-Israel (Or Even Pro-Jewish) - Joshua Namm

If you are still planning to vote for Harris-Walz, be honest with yourself. Would you put up with any of this if it had all been carried out by Republicans instead of Democrats?

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Time to nix 'Palestine': Terrorists aren't entitled to a state

The one-dimensional, tunnel-vision demand for the two-state solution (2SS) is a recipe for continuing the conflict, not for resolving it.

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America 2024: Is antisemitism “the point?”

Rather than side unreservedly with Israel after the brutally barbaric onslaught on it, the Democratic party & the Biden administration chose to take unprecedented measures against the elected government of a friendly nation. Opinion.

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The Israeli imperative to destroy myths, not just missiles

Most sane analysts understand that Hamas and Hezbollah are Iran-backed terrorist organizations whose military capabilities have to be countered. But illusions about the P.A. remain dangerously intact.

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The Justice System’s Disgusting Indifference to Murder and Attacks on Jews

Two weeks after the October 7 Hamas terrorist massacre in Israel, Samantha Woll, a 40-year-old Jewish woman, was found murdered outside her Detroit home with multiple stab wounds. The man charged with the brutal slaying, Michael Jackson-Bolanos, was acqui

This is infuriating.

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Thou Shalt Not countenance invidious discrimination

It’s time for a Kennedyesque public show of force by the President and Department of Justice, of the sort that occurred in 1963, to put an end to US campus antisemtism. Opinion.

Great article by my friend Leonard Grunstein!

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Demanding real change: How Global Jewry can hold institutions accountable - opinion

Nothing will come out of demands with no consequences. It is not enough to share a post or article with your network of people who already agree with you.

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Daniel Pearl’s Father: KSM Deserves the Death Penalty

‘A new trial should start with a new charge for the murder of my son.’

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Israeli Lives Aren’t Cheap – Commentary Magazine

In the 2004 Israeli movie Walk on Water, a Mossad agent played by Lior Ashkenazi is tasked with tracking down and eliminating an aging Nazi in Germany. In trying to

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Zombie Anti-Zionism

The left’s addiction to warmed-over Soviet Anti-Zionist propaganda from half a century ago proves that its criticism of Israel has nothing to do with facts on the ground in Gaza.

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Netanyahu’s hour - Melanie Phillips

Congress cheered him to the echo, but that's not enough to save Israel, the United States and the west

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Occupied Palestinian territory is reoccupied Jewish territory

The falsehoods and omissions in the ICJ's Advisory Opinion are revealed one by one in this article. Op-ed.

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Were Americans listening to Netanyahu’s message?

The contrast between the pro-Hamas mob outside the Capitol building and the prime minister’s address illustrated the stakes involved in the debate about Israel.

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Kamala Harris is no friend of Israel

A Harris administration would do more than offer woke platitudes; it would implement anti-Israel policies.

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Biden’s legacy is a world in flames

The reversion to Obama’s foreign policy and appeasement of Iran spawned an escalation of terrorism that endangers the West while killing Israelis.

This is exactly right.

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Vilifying Israel's Use of 2,000-Pound Bombs Only Ends Up Costing More Lives

Depriving Israel, or any other country, of the ability to use 2,000-pound bombs while fighting in densely populated areas only prolongs the human tragedy.

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Can Israel afford to stand up to America?

Netanyahu is addressing Congress because he has no other option

Israel needs to do everything it can to be far more independent- America has made it VERY CLEAR that it can not be depended on. Even after Trump comes back, there will be another antisemitic, leftist democrat waiting in the wings.

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The global lust for Jewish blood

I was not surprised by the great American feminist silence after Oct. 7.

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The driver of western Jew-hatred

Well-meaning people supporting the Palestinian cause are actually empowering Islamo-Nazis

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American Institutions Have Chosen Breakdown and Disorder

It’s about 25 miles, as the crow flies, from a particular street corner in Thousands Oaks, California, to Congregation Adas Torah in Los Angeles. Another way of saying that: It’s

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‘Holocaust and Genocide’ Centers: A Requiem

There’s an easy way to fix the problems that Holocaust and Genocide centers around the country are facing: Drop the “and Genocide” part. You can have a Holocaust center or

I worked at the “museum of tolerance” in LA. He is 100% right. If it isn’t specifically about the Holocaust, and the Holocaust only, it is pointless to pretend otherwise.

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It's Time to Start Using the Term 'Palestinian Civilian' Correctly

As long as the press and world leaders fail to ask these questions, continuing to push unsubstantiated casualty figures, they are empowering Hamas.

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Hamas terrorists are playing the West for fools

The group’s leaders aren’t interested in the lives of Palestinians, only in their own self-preservation

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Life Hack: If You Don’t Want To Be Killed, Don’t Take Hostages

The reaction to the rescue of four Israeli hostages being held by Palestinians is a microcosm of the past 70 years of this conflict.

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Saving Sinwar – Commentary Magazine

The most important part of the Wall Street Journal’s expose on Yahya Sinwar’s text messages isn’t a message written by the Hamas leader at all. It is, rather, the collapse

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Notes from the safest place in Europe for Jews

Hungary’s government is despised by liberals. But Budapest is Israel’s only real ally in the European Union and, as long as Viktor Orbán remains in power, the Jews there are safe.

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The racism of never blaming Hamas for anything

Following the rescue of four Israeli hostages, it is time the Western left gave Hamas some credit for its evil.

It’s pure antisemitism and nothing else.

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How the Anti-Israel Propaganda Ecosystem Works

The House of Representatives has passed a GOP-led effort to sanction the International Criminal Court over its kangaroo prosecution of Israeli officials. And the timing is perfect: It has just

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Wake up, Americans! As northern Israel burns, your government is throwing the Jewish state to the wolves

Yesterday, northern Israel was in flames. An enormous barrage of Hezbollah drones set fire to numerous areas in the Galilee. You can see the massive scale of the conflagration from video footage here, here and here.

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Israel’s Great Strategic Failure

It wasn’t October 7. It's the continuing avoidance of military action against Hezbollah in Lebanon.

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Is the genocide accusation antisemitic? Yes

Or to put it another way, can one make the patently false claim that Israel is engaged in genocide and not be antisemitic? And if you are ignorant and misled and spout antisemitic tropes, are you still antisemitic? Opinion.

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Egypt must pay a price for its sponsorship of Hamas

Since Oct. 7, it has become clear that Egyptian President Abdel Fatah el-Sisi has been playing Israel for a fool.

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Why has Gallant abandoned Israel’s war goals?

Since the failed peace process began in 1993, the General Staff became a stakeholder in the success of its “partner,” the Palestinian Authority.

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‘Palestinianism’ – An Ideology of Genocide

After 'National Socialism', basically, an ideology to be counted as a branch of Socialism, as the name already indicates, 'Palestinianism' is contemporarily the most deadly ideology seeking the genocide of the Jewish people and its state: Israel. In the f

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Elder Of Ziyon - Israel News: If You Vote for Biden, You Ain’t Jewish: Joe Biden and the Jewish Vote

With his latest perfidy toward Israel, Joe Biden has lost the Jewish vote. Will it matter to the outcome of the 2024 election?

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What ‘Globalize the Intifada’ Looks Like in Practice

If you are shouting genocidal slogans at preschoolers, you’re probably not the good guy. If you’re a middle schooler shouting genocidal slogans at preschoolers, you are surrounded by adults none

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The Meaning of Israeli ‘Independence’ – Commentary Magazine

“There is no question that this year, our Yom Ha’atzma’ut celebrations are different,” Israeli President Isaac Herzog said in an Independence Day message to Jews abroad. And indeed, the Jewish

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The West is proving that Islamist terrorism works

What would be the worst foreign policy message imaginable? There are many contenders, but the frontrunner has to be simply that “terrorism works”. Once this lesson has been learnt, the door will be open to years of violence against us. It’s called appeasement, and history has taught us where it leads.

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Elder Of Ziyon - Is the US really this stupid?

Blogging about Israel and the Arab world since, oh, forever.

The answer is very obviously “yes.”

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Yom Hashoah after Oct. 7: How Holocaust education failed

A generation of young Americans was taught to universalize the Nazi war on the Jews, leaving them vulnerable to being seduced by antisemitism and woke lies about Israel.

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The war against the Jewish story

The ease with which anti-Zionists have managed to portray the Jewish state as genocidal marks a historic failure of Holocaust education

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The Fight to Define Anti-Semitism

The race is on: Can Congress save the American Jewish community from destabilizing a rare plank of cross-ideological consensus? First, the good news. The House of Representatives ended the day

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Elder Of Ziyon - Where are the children's books about Jewish life in Israel for Jewish American Heritage Month?

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Why Are Women in America Cheering for Hamas and Iran?

Are these female protestors for Hamas so afraid of freedom that they appease the most dangerous demons on earth by supporting them?

Leftists don’t actually care about blacks, gays, women, or any of the other people they claim to care about. They ONLY care about two things: themselves and power.

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‘Picking on the smallest minority’: College students ‘rehashing age-old anti-Semitic tropes’

Israeli author and activist Noa Tishby has blasted college students for “rehashing age-old anti-Semitic tropes” by “picking on the smallest minority in the w...

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We are the West's last generation before the new Dark Age begins

There is a fatal contradiction at the heart of Western societies, a nihilistic impulse, a pathological self-loathing that threatens to destroy our way of life. We live in the freest, wealthiest, healthiest, fairest and most technologically advanced polities in history, and yet millions of young people are being taught to hate the West, to despise the liberties that make their lifestyles possible, to tear down every institution and tradition.

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What happens when children seize the wheel

The U.S. posture in this war has rattled Israel and the U.S.’s Sunni allies to their core.

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How Israel Can Win in Gaza—and Deter Iran

The key to both goals is going after Hamas in Rafah.

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The World Is Paying A Deadly Price For Obama's Foreign Policy

Joe Biden, feckless and weak, has surrounded himself with Barack Obama acolytes. Iranian dupes and Israel antagonists, all.

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Jonathan Glazer, Liberal Jewish Prophet

Oscar acceptance speeches are to culture what tax audits are to a small business: nasty, brutish, and somehow never short enough. And yet, when Jonathan Glazer took the stage at

This is an excellent articles I wish I’d written it.

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Who, Exactly, Does the Hezbollah-Flag-Waving Dirtbag Represent?

Yesterday an array of protesters spouting anti-American and anti-Israel slogans stopped highway traffic en route to Chicago’s O’Hare airport, on San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge, and in other cities. In

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Strangling Israel slowly

A remarkable realignment may be under way: Israel and the Arabs v America and Iran

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Hamas has all but won | The Spectator

It would be hard to imagine that almost exactly six months after October 7, I would find myself saying this, but Israel is either on a path to defeat or has lost the war already.

Unfortunately, for many reasons stated here, I have to agree. I said most of this days ago, before articles about it started popping up. It was UNIMAGINABLE on October 7th, that more than six months later - Hamas would not only still exist, but there is a real possibility that it may survive, and the Israeli government has clearly lost its will, or not accurately never had it in the first place, to win this war. If they fail, it is a failure against the entire Jewish people, one from which Israel will have to take massive measures to recover from.

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Outrage over aid-worker deaths is about saving Hamas, not civilians

All armies at war make tragic mistakes. But President Biden and Israel’s critics are cynically exploiting the incident as an excuse to shatter the alliance with the Jewish state.

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The global onslaught against Israel

Britain and America are making the Jewish state their scapegoat.

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Palestinian terrorism is not about self-determination

In today’s jihad-oriented Middle East, Islamic faith is being placed in the defiling service of terror-violence.

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What Chuck Schumer Has Wrought

Congratulations to Chuck Schumer, this year’s true April Fool. The predictably vile consequences of his public attacks on Israeli democracy are here, and no doubt there will be more coming.

His greatest contribution is to antisemites.

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Joe Lieberman and the Democrats’ abandonment of Israel and the Jews

Caroline Glick’s “In-Focus”

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UK threat to withhold Israel arms sales is a show of Western weakness

Opinion: Western weakness has wider implications beyond its immediate unintended consequences, and at a time of increasing danger from the despotic China-Russia-Iran axis, it seems to be afraid to stand by its allies when the going gets tough

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Feeble Britain is now letting Hamas win the propaganda war

In a sane universe, the democratic world would pull behind Israel until the war is won

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Opinion: Why antisemitism and anti-Zionism are so deeply intertwined

The holiday of Purim, celebrated by Jews around the world this weekend, tells a story of ancient antisemitism that has remained sadly relevant, writes Rabbi Avi Weiss.

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The Red-Right-Hand Apologists

The Jewish people do not “see things differently.” We see things as they are. It’s the benefit of being an eternal people. So we don’t need to play the postmodernist's

It’s no surprise that Ava Duvernay was one of the lowlifes wearing the read hand pin. She erased Jews from her film “Selma,” and is just another one in Avery long line of black antisemites.

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The American betrayal of Israel

Astoundingly, the US is feeding its beleaguered ally to its enemies

I have never been embarrassed to be an American before. In fact - just the opposite. I was always extremely proud. Not anymore, especially since 10/7. Melanie Phillips makes an excellent case for why America is, at this point, the enemy of good in a way that I never thought possible in my lifetime.

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Biden is risking the Jewish vote

Presidents who turn on Israel have always ended up in failure and defeat.

And nobody hopes more than I do that everyone wakes up and stops voting for this man, and this party that clearly hate us, and worse, continually advocate policies which put Jewish lives in danger (G-d forbid).

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Israel has become a partisan issue. Do American Jews care?

While Trump is impatient for a complete victory over Hamas, Biden and Schumer wave the white flag in their party’s civil war against Democrats who loathe the Jewish state.

You have to be delusional not to understand that a vote for the democrats is vote for antisemitism, and against the Jewish community and Israel. Since the election of “the squad” and democrats’ tolerance of them, it’s been clear that they are obviously only going to tolerate more antisemitism, and do WHATEVER they can to weaken Israel’s position, but now, after 10/7, voting for democrats actively puts Jewish lives in danger.

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Why wasn’t October 7 prevented? Time to look to the West

Even if it is possible that they didn’t know the exact date of the attack, it’s still reasonable to ask for soul-searching in the West and among Western allies about why Oct. 7 wasn’t prevented.

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Shattered

There is no word in the psychological lexicon for what happened on Oct. 7 or the new world in which Israelis now live. But “shattered” comes closer than “trauma.”

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Israel Haters: Not Too Swift - Joshua Namm

No one ever accused them of being bright.

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The terror of the right delusion

It's so much easier to construct bogeymen than face up to murderous reality

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The Phony “Occupation” Dodge

Francesca Albanese, the Italian lawyer who holds the United Nations position of “Special Rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories,” is defensive when it comes to accusations of anti-Semitism. This is understandable, considering her own record of controversial statements. In 2014, she wrote that the United States tends to be pro-Israel because it is “subjugated by the Jewish lobby,” while Europe supports the Jewish state because of its “sense of guilt about the Holocaust.” In most places, revealing that you believe conspiracy theories about Jews controlling America would be disqualifying. At the United Nations, it earns you a promotion.

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We need to talk about Gen Z’s Palestine mania

There was nothing laudable about Aaron Bushnell’s tragic suicide.

I disagree that this antisemitic loser’s stupid behavior was “tragic.” He’s one more Jew hating lowlife that is removed from this planet. That said, the issue of the arch Antisemtism of Gen Z is extremely serious.

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Islamism: A watershed moment in the decline of Britain

In a supine Britain, Islamists are seizing their opportunity

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How Hamas Hijacked British Democracy – Commentary Magazine

After all the false alarms, the crisis of British democracy is finally here. The cause is not a nebulous concept like “disinformation” or a prime minister getting ousted by her

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How the ‘settler violence’ campaign works

One of the many distressing aspects of the campaign to criminalize Israeli civilians is that it’s apparently the first target. The next one? The IDF.

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Biden gambles with Israeli security

Opinion: Biden and his colleagues are first and foremost politicians, not strategists, with the primary objective of getting reelected; to that end, they are willing to pay in Israeli security currency

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The moral bankruptcy of the West: Accepting terrorist propaganda as truth

And while I don’t expect the world to stand on the sidelines and applaud the IDF, we should be able to expect some semblance of integrity.