Lay of the Land Weekly Newsletter- 17 February 2025

Unveiling the contours and contrasts of an ever-changing Middle East landscape Reliable reportage and insightful commentary on the Middle East by seasoned journalists from the region and beyond.

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THE ISRAEL BRIEF- 10 – 13 February 2025
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EMERGING FROM DARK TUNNELS

Tunnels to Stages. Contrary to Hamas’ façade of normalcy at its choregraphed on-stage hostage handovers,
details emerge of torture, starvation and being held in locations full of lice, bedbugs, mold and mildew.



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IT IS HAPPENING AGAIN ON YOUR WATCH

You swore Never Again – but it is happening on your watch!
By Rolene Marks

Height of Hypocrisy. While participating mournfully at ceremonies across the world to commemorate 80 years since the liberation of Auschwitz, world leaders revealed their true colours by allowing antisemitism to run rampant in their countries leading to Jewish citizens questioning where their futures may safely lie.

IT IS HAPPENING AGAIN ON YOUR WATCH
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THE RED CROSS AND THE RED HEADS

Nowhere is the failure of the International Red Cross Red Cross more vivid than in its abandonment of the most vulnerable  hostages – Shiri Bibas and her two red head kids!
By Jonathan Feldstein

Symptomatic of the Savagery.  Failing to help Israeli hostages held in captivity in Gaza, the Red Cross shamefully
serves as a “glorified taxi service” for Hamas in cynically choreographed handover ceremonies. Meanwhile,
a distraught nation waits news of the fate of two young ‘red-head’ kids, one still a baby, and their mother.  

THE RED CROSS AND THE RED HEADS
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ISRAEL ACCUSED FOR COLLAPSE OF THE ‘INTERNATIONAL WORLD ORDER’

World out of Order! Adhering with a 2000-year shocking history of Jews commonly used as scapegoats for a plethora of the world’s
misfortunes, the Jewish state today – as it seeks to protects its people in a defensive war against evil emanating from Gaza –
stands accused for collapsing the world order.  Go figure!



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NAZIS AS NEIGHBORS

Uncovering uncomfortable truths of how and why Nazis found allies in the suburbia of the USA after their gruesome pasts were uncovered.
Book Review by Dr. Efraim Zuroff

School for Scandal. Reinhold Kulle seemed like a typically perfect US school employee until his retirement neared and his long-concealed secret as being a member of the SS, and a guard at a brutal slave labor camp during WW II came to light. Although Nazis loomed in the American consciousness as evil epitomized, why did some in American suburbia rise to defend a war criminal?

NAZIS AS NEIGHBORS
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