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Articles
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THREE DECADES LATER
The long arm of Iranian injustice takes out famed writer’s eye
By David E. Kaplan
There is no time limit on Iranian threats as Salman Rushdie was ruthlessly reminded and which Israel needs no reminder. When Iran bellows “DEATH TO ISRAEL”, exhibits the Star of David on its paraded missiles and is hell-bent on acquiring nuclear weapons, Israelis are not duped by false façades at the Iran nuclear talks in Vienna.
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THE FATAL FLAWS OF THE ONE-STATE SOLUTION
Finding a solution – reappraising the Israel-Palestinian impasse
By Samuel Hyde
Since the Madrid Peace Conference of 1991, Palestinian leaders have walked away from every deal on the table because any “solution” that does not lead to the dissolution of Israel is ipso facto rejected. Currently compounding this process are present proposals from proponents of one-statism which are for the writer, more “ideological” than “well-reasoned”. Israel is not obliged to commit suicide!
THE FATAL FLAWS OF THE ONE-STATE SOLUTION
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5 EU COUNTRIES THAT SHOULDN’T BE THROWING STONES
Accusing Russia of rewriting the Holocaust for its current propaganda is fair – but not when you’ve always whitewashed the Holocaust for your own purposes
By Dr. Efraim Zuroff
While the Russians are manipulating history to justify its invasion of Ukraine, the plea by Eastern Europe leaders to set the record straight is in the words of the writer “the height of hypocrisy and chutzpah.” These are the very same countries guilty of creating false narratives of events in the Holocaust to cover up its own complicity in the systematic mass murder of Jews.
5 EU COUNTRIES THAT SHOULDN’T BE THROWING STONES
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