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THE ISRAEL BRIEF –26–29 January 2026
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Lay of the Land’s Image Pick of the Week
HOME AT LAST
First in, last out, Ran Gvili after 843 days in Gaza is finally home.
The explanation lies in who we are and why we will always be.
Am Yisrael Chai.
ARTICLES
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WORD OUT ON THE STREET
From a street in Minneapolis to the streets of Tehran, what does media focus reveal about global morality and hypocrisy?
By David E. Kaplan
and traumatic as it is to victim, family and nation – shades in media-magnitude to the wholesale slaughter
of thousands on the streets in Iran. Why the disturbing absence of global media interest?
WORD OUT ON THE STREET
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TIME FOR IRAN’S NUREMBERG TRIALS
Nazi Germany existed for less than a generation. Islamic republic for nearly half a century. The list of crimes and people to be tried will be endless. That alone makes this urgent.
By Marziyeh Amirizadeh – a former Iranian death row inmate
can someday be brough to justice, the writer and her cell mate, Maryam, sketched “Rasti” and “Haghighat”.
How long before these two find themselves in a cell – not as interrogators but inmates?
TIME FOR IRAN’S NUREMBERG TRIALS
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WHY WE ARE “PROTESTANT” ZIONISTS
Israel’s last major allies are several hundred million Protestant Zionists but the Islamist world – with compliant local church support – is desperate to break this alliance.
By John Enarson
Catholic church and its allied denominations with their January 19, startling statement condemning
Christian support for Israel as a “damaging ideology”. Damaging to who?
WHY WE ARE “PROTESTANT” ZIONISTS
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LOTL Cofounders David E. Kaplan (Editor), Rolene Marks and Yair Chelouche
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