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SMALL IN SIZE HUGE IN HEART – THE DRUZE COMMUNITY
A world indifferent, Israelis understand why the Druze in need have to be supported by Israel in deed.
By David E. Kaplan
SMALL IN SIZE HUGE IN HEART – THE DRUZE COMMUNITY
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A LESSON FROM THE FIRST WORLD WAR
“At no point in the war had the Allies achieved a definite, clean success. How then, was the war to be brought to an end?” David Lloyd George, the British Secretary of State for War, at a meeting of the British War Cabinet in October 1916.
By Neville Berman
A LESSON FROM THE FIRST WORLD WAR
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PIERS MORGAN UNCOVERED
Does popular UK media personality seek clicks more than truth?
By Jonathan Feldstein
PIERS MORGAN UNCOVERED
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