From victimhood to justification: can Israel claim PTSD?
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The Blogs: Recognition of Palestine Is Overdue—and Trump’s UN Speech Misses the Point | Ryan Aviv Fagan
Today, at the United Nations General Assembly, President Donald Trump doubled down on opposition to recognition of a Palestinian state, saying that doing so now would be “too great a reward for Hamas terrorists, for their atrocities.”
He…
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The Blogs: Italian Autonomous Police Union fires at inaction directives imposed on agents | Giovanni Giacalone
“Enough with the target practice against law enforcement!” This is the appeal launched by the Autonomous Police Union (SAP) Secretary General Stefano Paoloni, following the September 22 turmoil caused by far-left and pro-Palestinian…
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The Blogs: The Growing Consensus On Palestinian Statehood | Sheldon Kirshner
President Emmanuel Macron of France has initiated a diplomatic process that brings Palestinian statehood one step closer to fruition yet still very far from realization.
Yesterday, at a followup United Nations conference on a two-state…
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The Blogs: Rosh Hashanah’s Origins and the Living Paradox | Janét Aizenstros
When Jews ask why Rosh HaShanah exists and what is biblically rooted versus rabbinically developed, the forensic path begins with Torah itself and continues through Chazal and later commentators.
In Sefer Vayikra, the day is called Yom Teruah…
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The Blogs: Philippe Kersanty Interview | Alexandre Gilbert #301 | Alexandre Gilbert
Philippe Kersanty is the spokesperson for the Trump France committee.
Osama bin Laden explicitly cited the Al-Dura case as justification both for the assassination of Daniel Pearl, a journalist from the Washington Post, who was about to find…
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The Blogs: What is the Sovereign State of Palestine? | Clifford Rieders
77 years ago, the United Nations voted to recognize the independent State of Israel, an event that was 2,000 years in the making. The prior independent State of Israel was destroyed by the Romans after the Bar Kokhba Rebellion in the year…
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The Blogs: If two states is the solution, what is the problem? | David K. Rees
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) shakes hands with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in Jerusalem, September 15, 2010. (Kobi Gideon/Flash90)
I, an Israeli who lives in Tel Aviv and have had to spend hours in my safe…
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The Blogs: Netanyahu Toying With Annexation As a Match to Ignite The Region and drag US In | Tzvi Gottlieb
Looking at the facts: Netanyahu’s sudden trip to Washington, the unusual deployment of Egyptian forces in Sinai, the flood of weapons worth 6 billion shekels arriving in Israel, the threats from Arab states, and Naftali Bennett’s…
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The Blogs: Free-of-Jews West Bank and the Palestinian right of return | Jaime Kardontchik
France and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia are cosponsoring a resolution at the United Nations supporting the “right of return” of the Palestinians to Israel within its pre-June 1967 borders (see, for example, section 14 of the New York…
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