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THE ISRAEL BRIEF- 19-22 February 2024
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Lay of the Land’s Picture of the Week
BRINGING THEM HOME
gesturing in their tank on the border with southern Gaza on February 15, 2024,
are not going anywhere. (Photo: Amir Cohen/Reuters)
Articles
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WILL ISRAEL’S GAZA BORDER BECOME THE NEXT ‘DARK TOURISM’ DESTINATION?
Millions of tourists around the globe travel every year to some of the most depressing places on Earth: sites of horror, tragedies, disasters, and monstrous death.
By Motti Verses
massacre – be embedded in Jewish history as another place antisemites set about
for the mass extermination of Jews.
WILL ISRAEL’S GAZA BORDER BECOME THE NEXT ‘DARK TOURISM’ DESTINATION?
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LETTER FROM ISRAEL AT WAR – WEEK 20
Who should adjudicate the crimes committed by UNRWA and its complicity in the October 7 massacre?
By Harris Zvi Green
center found under agency’s HQ. This follows multiple IDF discoveries of entrances
from UNRWA schools to Hamas subterranean terror tunnels.
LETTER FROM ISRAEL AT WAR – WEEK 20
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SHORT-SIGHTED SOUTH AFRICA
Looking East instead of West, South Africa’s ruling ANC fails to see ills closer to home
By Kenneth Mokgatlhe
Mandela. Were South Africa’s foreign policy to be premised on the principles and values of human
rights, why are its closest friends today mostly human rights violators and terrorists?
SHORT-SIGHTED SOUTH AFRICA
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LOTL Cofounders David E. Kaplan (Editor), Rolene Marks and Yair Chelouche
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