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Articles
(1)
Along Came a Hero
He rescued not only lives – but faith in humankind as Arab world mourns Israeli who died saving Bedouin family from drowning
By David. E. Kaplan
When Michael Ben-Zikri drowned from exhaustion after rescuing three Bedouin children and their aunt in a lake in southern Israel, this was only half the story. The other half was the responses across the Arab world. Not only did Muslims from Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Syria, Oman, Morocco and Egypt send condolences, but there are calls by local Arab politicians to name streets in Arab towns after this brave Israeli. Can Ben Zikri emerge as “a symbol of co-existence”?
https://layoftheland.online/2020/07/13/along-came-a-hero/
(2)
Mending a Broken Heart
By Rolene Marks
The saga of a young Eritrean woman’s perilous journey 10 years ago from Eritrea at age 16 to Israel, then fleeing for her life with her young children from domestic abuse to a WIZO shelter and then undergoing life-saving heart surgery during the height of the Corona pandemic at Sha’arei Tzedek Hospital in Jerusalem, is testimony to the unique services of the Women’s International Zionist Organization being on the frontline in helping non-Jewish refugees in Israel.
https://layoftheland.online/2020/07/15/mending-a-broken-heart/
(3)
The Jewish Double Standard in Action
Evil of One Kind Denounced, Evil of Another Given a Pass
By Jake Donnelly
Following on-line anti-Semitic posts by star NBA footballers, an American broadcast journalist explores why “when Jews see something bad, racist, or evil, they join in the fury and call it out,” however “when something antisemitic occurs, there is little by way of resulting uproar.” Exposing this “Jewish double standard”, the writer cautions that failure to address this ‘double standard’ is accelerating contemporary anti-Semitism.
https://layoftheland.online/2020/07/14/the-jewish-double-standard-in-action/
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The Arab Voice – July 2020
Arab writers from the Middle East and beyond opine on a range of issues from the impact of former National Security Advisor John Bolton’s “bombshell” book on the Trump presidency, to what history can teach about sanctions on Iran and the escalating decline of Lebanon.
https://layoftheland.online/2020/07/12/the-arab-voice-july-2020/
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