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THE ISRAEL BRIEF- 23 June – 03 July 2025
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This week’s Lay of the Land’s ‘Photo-Pick’ captures the normalization of Jew hatred.
A GLASTONBURY CHILLER
20 months after Israel’s Nova Festival massacre, England’s Glastonbury festival chants message of death to Jews
peace, youth and love, only at Nova, the dancing turned into a massacre, which Glastonbury this month
celebrated with the chant of – “Death to the IDF”!
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ALL EYES ON TRUMP AND NETANYAHU
The issues on the White House agenda of upcoming meeting between PM Netanyahu and President Trump are clear; everything else is unclear.
By Jonathan Feldstein
While all sorts of possibilities have risen following Israel’s post-October 7 resetting of the
regional landscape, the only certainty that remains is uncertainty!
ALL EYES ON TRUMP AND NETANYAHU
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A PLAGUE ON PARIS – WHAT’S CHANGED?
A plague outbreak – “DISEASE NO. 9” – in Paris in 1920 blamed mainly on Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe, turned out to be France’s antisemitic fake news!
By Michel Levine
caricaturing them as “conspiratorial”, “vermin” and “spreaders of disease”. Preceding the Nazis,
the “liberal” French excelled in 1920 Paris by blaming a plague outbreak on its Jews!
A PLAGUE ON PARIS – WHAT’S CHANGED?
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HYPOCRISY TAKEN TO NEW HEIGHTS
How the world has reacted to Iran’s attempt to eradicate the Zionist entity.
By Neville Berman
California, June 21,2025 but no such similar sentiment shown when Iran, Hezbollah, Hamas
and the Houthis of Yemen fired missiles on Israel!
HYPOCRISY TAKEN TO NEW HEIGHTS
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RETRACING ROOTS
Israeli travel advisor takes a trip of a different kind tracing the footsteps of his late mother to Uzbekistan’s Samarkand.
By Motti Verses
“The most beautiful city” where she spent her teenager years as a refugee from Poland during WWII,
led the writer on a journey of discovery that was both pleasurable and personal.
RETRACING ROOTS
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