Lay of the Land Weekly Newsletter- May 2023

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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

The Right Moves. Students performing in the winning ‘Very Mad World’ dance at the Suzanne Dellal Center in Tel Aviv. 

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

In Black & WhiteAftermath of the Kovno ‘garage’ massacre in June 1941, perpetrated by Nazi-supporting Lithuanians.

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.

HEROES IN OUR TIME

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HOW’S YOUR DAY GOING?

Probably very different from Israelis who were ducking rocket fire near Gaza

By Jonathan Feldstein

Mercy of Monsters. Ditching their car, mother clutches her daughter as siren sounds warning of incoming rockets.

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’.

HOW’S YOUR DAY GOING?

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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

Road to Redemption. Gone down the road of their family’s past, descendants of Nazis will take to streets in Israel.

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.

PROCESSING THE PAST

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LOTL Cofounders David E. Kaplan (Editor), Rolene Marks and Yair Chelouche

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