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Coronavirus Pandemic Exposes Communist China’s Weaknesses

Coronavirus Pandemic Exposes Communist China’s Weaknesses

Social media has recently been flooded with giddily laudatory stories claiming that, in response to the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak, China built an entire hospital in just seven days. A few curmudgeons pointed out that the first photos were of a hotel complex some 600 miles away, and that the building

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Trudeau Shows That Censorship Is in the Modern Left’s DNA

We already know that free speech is not a principle that the contemporary left support. It’s also obvious that, for all the self-serving palaver about “your right to know”, the left are implacably hostile to a free press, too. In 2011, the Gillard government in Australia attempted to

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Give Peace a Chance

Give Peace a Chance

Rob Berg israelinstitute.nz Rob Berg is president of the Zionist Federation of New Zealand. On 29 January 2020, President Trump finally presented his long-awaited ‘Deal of the Century’, his vision to end the ongoing conflict between the Palestinians and the Israelis, a conflict which has been going on

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Why Are We Still Funding UNRWA When We’ve Pulled Funding for the Commonwealth?
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Why Are We Still Funding UNRWA When We’ve Pulled Funding for the Commonwealth?

The Daily Mail reports on some funding issues for the Commonwealth Secretariat because of ‘significant weaknesses in its approach to managing procurement’. New Zealand has suspended funding because of poor audit reports: Embattled Commonwealth chief Baroness Scotland’s hopes of keeping her job suffered a blow yesterday after a snub

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How LOW Can a Green Politician Go?

How LOW Can a Green Politician Go?

Luc Ferrandez is a politician from Montreal, Quebec. He was the interim leader of the municipal party Projet Montreal from 2014. From 2009 to 2019 he served as the mayor of the borough of Le Plateau-Mont-Royal. He is currently a member of the Projet Montreal municipal political party.

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Transcript: Donald Trump’s Peace Plan Speech

Transcript: Donald Trump’s Peace Plan Speech

January 28th 2020 Donald Trump Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you. Today, Israel takes a big step towards peace. Young people across the Middle East are ready for a more hopeful future, and governments throughout the region are realizing that terrorism and Islamic extremism are everyone’s common

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The BFD Faces of the Day

The BFD Faces of the Day

With Israeli leaders by his side, the American president prepared to “make history” by releasing an ambitious Mideast peace plan that he believes has a “very good chance” of success. President Donald Trump said Monday that while the Palestinians have already rejected his proposed Mideast peace deal with Israel, he

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