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Articles
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INCONVENIENT TRUTHS
The Mainstream media suffers amnesia with facts when it comes to covering Israel
By Rolene Marks
“Israeli forces are happy to kill children” is how a BBC interviewer maliciously characterised Israel’s intent as it carried out a military operation in Jenin to try neutralise the West Bank’s lethal epicentre of terrorism. Met with heavy fire from masked terrorists, Israel also had to unmask a devious global media of its lies and distortions.
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BIBI AND HIS BILLS
As Bibi’s ‘reasonable bill’ advances in Israeli Knesset, country retreats into the abyss
By David E. Kaplan
If the US is reassessing its relationship with Israel’s leadership, they are only following the example of the citizens of Israel, who are in their 28th week of taking to the streets across Israel in protest against the Netanyahu’s crazed coalition’s “March of Folly”.
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THE LONG AND THE SHORT OF IT!
Expounding on Israel through poetry
By Charlotte Cohen
“With so much tormented history and heartache Forever battened in its backpack…” award-winning South African short story writer, essayist and poet, Charlotte Cohen, poetically unpacks Israel’s pulsating past and present
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