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Articles
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ISRAEL CAN WALK AND CHEW GUM AT THE SAME TIME
‘Shield and Arrow’ was a reminder to terrorists not to misread Israel’s internal tensions as fragility
By David E. Kaplan

Thought’s about a competition-winning dance choreographed by the writer’s daughter, illuminated understanding and misunderstanding as no country in the world is NOT going to respond when over a 100 rockets are rapidly fired at its civilian centers?
ISRAEL CAN WALK AND CHEW GUM AT THE SAME TIME
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HEROES IN OUR TIME
People behind exposing the hard truth of Lithuania in the Holocaust
By Grant Gochin

The writer makes the case that NATO and the European Union cannot demand truth from Russia when one of their own members is so deeply engaged in “Holocaust fraud”. Lithuania has to come clean and tell the truth about its own past.
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HOW’S YOUR DAY GOING?
Probably very different from Israelis who were ducking rocket fire near Gaza
By Jonathan Feldstein

Parents who spend all night worried about protecting their kids from rockets have to wake up – assuming they even slept at all – to get their kids off to school and then get to work. How has ‘ABNORMAL’ terrifyingly morphed into ‘NORMAL’.
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PROCESSING THE PAST
Marking Israel’s 75th, descendants of Nazi killers participate in Jerusalem’s ‘March of Life’
By David E. Kaplan

While a Nazi past of relatives can understandably be a taboo subject in some German families – not all. A number of descendants of Nazis chose to bravely confront rather than suppress their family’s war-time past. Hear their stories and why they will be in Israel this week.
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