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THE ISRAEL BRIEF- 04-07 August 2025
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Lay of the Land’s Pick of the Week has Israelis wondering Quo Vadis!
MASK OR MESS
Is the proposed takeover of all Gaza a strategic ploy to pressure for a hostage deal
or Israel’s ‘Vietnam moment’ and perpetual war?
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CAFES, CONCERTS AND CAMPSITES – “JUDEN VERBOTEN”
In Europe being Jewish in public is unacceptable – again!
By David E. Kaplan
CAFES, CONCERTS AND CAMPSITES – “JUDEN VERBOTEN”
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EUROPE AND THE PALESTINIAN LITMUS TEST
Why are Palestinians being reoffered what they have time and again rejected?
By Peter Bailey
of their own in which to live side-by-side with their Jewish neighbors but repeatedly declined. Reading their lips,
they will settle for nothing less than the “From the river to the sea.”
EUROPE AND THE PALESTINIAN LITMUS TEST
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FALSE NEWS,DOUBLE STANDARDS AND APPEASEMENT
The new world order that threatens Western culture and civilization.
By Neville Berman
FALSE NEWS,DOUBLE STANDARDS AND APPEASEMENT
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WHEN STATEHOOD = A STATE FOR HOODS
Why reward a terrorist leadership holding Israeli hostages rotting on the verge of death?
By Jonathan Feldstein
WHEN STATEHOOD = A STATE FOR HOODS
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