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Ten Facts You Need to Know About Israel

Elliot Mathias aish.com Basic facts you need to know to combat the disinformation and outright lies about the situation in Israel. The disinformation, confusion, and outright lies about the situation in Israel is pervasive. I worked with students for 17 years on university campuses helping them educate and advocate

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How Can People Think This Way?

How Can People Think This Way?

Kurt Mahlburg Kurt Mahlburg is a writer and author, and an emerging Australian voice on culture and the Christian faith. He has a passion for both the philosophical and the personal, drawing on his background as a graduate architect, a primary school teacher, a missionary, and a young adult pastor.

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Enough of This Hateful Prattle From the UN and Its Idiots
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Enough of This Hateful Prattle From the UN and Its Idiots

Is it time for the UN to go the way of the League of Nations? That body was disbanded in ignominy after it utterly failed to prevent the Axis nations from plunging the world into another World War. The UN may have helped steer the world through the Cold War,

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Urgent: An Israeli Strategy for a Post-Hamas Gaza

Urgent: An Israeli Strategy for a Post-Hamas Gaza

Prof. Jonathan Rynhold Prof Jonathan Rynhold is head of the Political Studies Department at Bar-Ilan University and a senior researcher at the BESA Center. Dr. Toby Greene Dr. Toby Greene is a senior lecturer in the Department of Political Studies at Bar-Ilan University and a researcher at the BESA Center.

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If You Support Palestinian Terrorism Guess What?

If You Support Palestinian Terrorism Guess What?

The social media platform X is awash with daily posts claiming Israel is targeting Palestinian civilians in its war on Hamas, despite daily assurances from the IDF that Israel is doing its best to avoid killing and injuring civilians whilst fulfilling its promise to Israeli citizens to annihilate Hamas to

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Who Really Thinks This Was a Coincidence?

Who Really Thinks This Was a Coincidence?

Now, if you were a Lycian envoy who had visited the Greek camp to teach them carpentry, King Priam would probably have wanted a word with you when a giant wooden horse subsequently appeared outside the gates. When Greek soldiers came pouring out of it, you can really bet he’

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The Hate That Just Won’t Go Away

The Hate That Just Won’t Go Away

What is wrong with people? What the hell is wrong with people? Just what is going on in the hateful, addled minds of the masses of people across the Western world, people who repeatedly proclaim their own moral self-righteousness, yet whose first, almost instinctive, response to the worst butchery of

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UK and France Continue Support for Israel

BICOM bicom.org.uk 25th October 2023 Macron visits: Visiting Israel yesterday, French President Emanuel Macron joined Western allies in support for Israel. * In a meeting with Prime Minister Netanyahu, Macron said that “this fight against terrorism is obviously a matter of existence for Israel. But it’s a matter

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Nobody Ever Said War Was Nice

In mid-1944, with WWII still raging, George Orwell took aim at socialist and pacifist Vera Brittain, who had published a hand-wringing pamphlet attacking Allied bombing raids in Europe. Like the comfortable leftists today attacking Israel’s self-defensive response to Hamas’ unspeakable barbarities, Brittain whined about the “thousands of helpless and

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Putting Australia’s Multicultural Miracle to the Test

Putting Australia’s Multicultural Miracle to the Test

John-Paul Baladi John-Paul Baladi is the Vice President of the Sudanese-Syrian Christian Community in Australia and the Former Territory Director of the Country Liberal Party. mercatornet.com “Australia is the most successful multicultural nation in the world.” Australian political leaders of all persuasions have often paraded this claim – but is

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I Watched the Whole Thing. I Wish I Hadn’t.
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I Watched the Whole Thing. I Wish I Hadn’t.

Over the weekend I was sent a video from the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs. It outlined in two short, yet horrifying minutes some of the appalling war crimes and atrocities perpetrated by Hamas on innocent civilians of Israel in the border areas around the Gaza Strip. I was also

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The End of Mowing the Grass

Prof. Eitan Shamir BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 2,223, October 22, 2023 (Ph.D. Kings College) Former head of the National Security Doctrine Department in the Israel Ministry of Strategic Affairs. Expert on insurgencies and combat doctrine. besacenter.org A decade ago, in 2013, I published an article with

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Best Not Forget about Russia and China

Best Not Forget about Russia and China

Dave Patterson National Security Correspondent at LibertyNation.Com. Dave is a retired US Air Force pilot with over 180 combat missions in Vietnam. He is the former Principal Deputy Under Secretary of Defense, Comptroller and has served in executive positions in the private sector aerospace and defense industry. libertynation.com

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Palestinians Hand Out Money for Blood [Updated]

As I wrote recently, the ‘Palestinian-but-not-Hamas’ argument is as threadbare a fiction as arguing, in the 1930s, ‘German-but-not-Nazi’. Not all Palestinians voted for or fervently support Hamas, perhaps, but then, not all Germans did the Nazis, either. Even of those Germans who were members of the party itself, a relative

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We Need to Free Gaza from Hamas

We Need to Free Gaza from Hamas

Our next guest grew up on the West Bank where his father was a founding member of Hamas. He was groomed to take a senior role before he turned on the terrorist group in prison. Spying for Israel now, converting to Christianity and ultimately seeking asylum in the US, Mosab

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