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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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View from Your Window
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View from Your Window

**If readers want this series to continue please send your original photos to window@thebfd.co.nz What can you tell us about this View from Your Window? Yesterday’s photo was of the corner of Wakefield and Tory streets, Wellington, from the QT (formerly Hotel Museum de Wheels). ** We

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View from Your Window

**If readers want this series to continue please send your original photos to window@thebfd.co.nz What can you tell us about this View from Your Window? Yesterday’s photo was looking at the coastline north of Napier, circa Tangoio, viewed from NZ5025, as it circled for 45 minutes

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The BFD World News Quiz

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View from Your Window

**If readers want this series to continue please send your original photos to window@thebfd.co.nz What can you tell us about this View from Your Window? Yesterday’s photo was looking out to the Alamo in Santa Anna. ** We need more photos please folks, so grab your camera

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There’s No ‘Two Sides’ to This

There’s No ‘Two Sides’ to This

The Israel-Gaza war is morally crystal-clear in a way that no conflict has been for the last eighty years. In the early 1940s, there was no moral equivalence between the Allies and the Axis. The enormities of Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan were so beyond the pale of basic human

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How Did Hamas Do It?

How Did Hamas Do It?

One of the big questions about last week’s horrific progrom by Hamas is not why the left are so supportive of the murderers. We already knew that the left are anti-Semitic to the core. Rather, many people are asking: how? How, after all, does a motley terrorist government which

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View from Your Window

**If readers want this series to continue please send your original photos to window@thebfd.co.nz What can you tell us about this View from Your Window? Yesterday’s photo was looking from our balcony towards Kiriwina Island, Papua New Guinea on a recent cruise on P & O

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They Shredded Our Social Contract

Jeffrey A. Tucker Jeffrey A. Tucker is Founder and President of the Brownstone Institute. He is also Senior Economics Columnist for Epoch Times, author of 10 books, including Liberty or Lockdown, and thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press. He speaks widely on topics of economics, technology, social

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View from Your Window

**If readers want this series to continue please send your original photos to window@thebfd.co.nz What can you tell us about this View from Your Window? Yesterday’s photo was looking out at Tasman Bay from our table at the Waterfront Cafe, Kaiteriteri Beach. ** We need more photos

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Babies in Israel

Colin Parkinson Some people have claimed that certain events such as the Holocaust did not happen. Now we are starting to have questions about more recent events such as reports of the beheading of babies in Israel. There have been rumours going around trying to discredit this event. I have

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When the Lights Go Out

When the Lights Go Out

Elai Rettig BESA Center Perspectives Dr. Elai Rettig is a lecturer and assistant professor in the Department of Political Studies and a senior research fellow at the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies at Bar-Ilan University. besacenter.org As part of the ongoing “Swords of Iron” operation in Gaza, the Israeli

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View from Your Window

**If readers want this series to continue please send your original photos to window@thebfd.co.nz What can you tell us about this View from Your Window? Yesterday’s photo was looking down at Mariacka Street, also known as the Street of the Amber Sellers, from our apartment in

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Auckland Museum’s Apology for Expressing Solidarity With Israel
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Auckland Museum’s Apology for Expressing Solidarity With Israel

Civilised nations across the world, including UK, Australia, and USA, have seen fit to show solidarity with Israel at her time of grief, by lighting prominent buildings with Israel’s colours. Sydney Opera House, 10 Downing St, The Brandenburg Gate and buildings in Kyiv and the European Commission have responded

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View from Your Window

**If readers want this series to continue please send your original photos to window@thebfd.co.nz What can you tell us about this View from Your Window? Yesterday’s photo was taken from room F, Ward 7, North Shore Hospital, Auckland. ** We need more photos please folks, so grab

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View from Your Window

**If readers want this series to continue please send your original photos to window@thebfd.co.nz What can you tell us about this View from Your Window? Yesterday’s photo was taken leaving Auckland Airport: the view across Pararekau Island over to Takanini. ** We need more photos please folks,

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