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Articles
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TWO-STATE SITUATION!
Israel today is a house divided – the message from the street, “Buckle Up”
By David E. Kaplan
Not only has Netanyahu’s ‘coalition of the crazies’ divided Jew from Jew within Israel; it has divided the ‘House of Israel’– the Jewish state from the Jewish world. With positions hardening instead of easing, where to now?
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TERROR ONLY MINUTES AWAY
A personal perspective of Israelis living with terrorism on their streets
By Jonathan Feldstein
“ONLY MINUTES” rings over and over in the writer’s mind for it was the time it would have taken for his 26-year-old daughter to reach where a lone gunman opened fire on a crowd at a restaurant in Tel Aviv’s popular Dizengoff Street. Family Stocktaking is the panic practice as soon as news breaks in Israel of another terrorism attack!
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BEYOND THE NARRATIVE – SOUTH AFRICA-ISRAEL RELATIONS
Can the South African experience be a guiding force? It could and should
By Ostern Tefo
With South Africa “on its knees” with rolling blackouts, the world’s highest unemployment rate, poor access to healthcare and “a murder rate higher than the present death toll in Ukraine,” the writer counsels that his country could benefit – by joining with countries elsewhere in Africa – with closer ties with Israel.
BEYOND THE NARRATIVE – SOUTH AFRICA-ISRAEL RELATIONS
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