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Articles
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ROCK SOLID REVELATIONS
Digging up the past releases curses, reveals truths but time for Israelis and Palestinians to maturely move on.
By David E. Kaplan
Despite finds such as the latest 3,200-year-old folded-lead tablet in Hebrew revealing Jewish life in the land of Israel, Palestinian leaders still reject any Jewish connection. As the saying goes ‘From a Rock to a Hard Place’, the region has to move beyond false narratives to arrive at destination PEACE.
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WHEN BERNIE MET LENNIE
A personal recollection from Israel’s victorious war 56 years ago
By Lennie Lurie
Marking the 56th anniversary of the Six Day War, the writer takes the reader back to those worrying days in 1967 when a younger Jewish state’s future was uncertain. More certain was that young Jews all over the world were prepared to drop everything – put their lives on hold – and volunteer to serve Israel. Here is the story of one young man from Cape Town, South Africa.
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ISRAEL HAS FAILED TO FIGHT LATVIA, LITHUANIA’S HOLOCAUST DISTORTION
While three acclaimed films shine spotlight on the Holocaust in the Baltics, Latvia and Lithuania respond with Holocaust distortion
By Dr. Efraim Zuroff
There are dark reasons why new highly acclaimed Holocaust documentaries – James Bulgin’s BBC’s ‘How the Holocaust Began’, Michael Kretzmer’s ‘J’Accuse’ and Eugene Levin’s ‘Baltic Truths’ – are winning awards at film festivals all over the world yet are mostly ignored in the Baltic countries to whom the messages of the films are directed. Allow this writer to reveal why!
ISRAEL HAS FAILED TO FIGHT LATVIA, LITHUANIA’S HOLOCAUST DISTORTION
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