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THE ISRAEL BRIEF –04-07 May 2026
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Lay of the Land’s Photo Pick of the Week
HARDLY ‘STRAIT’FORWARD
Photo captures the complex standoff between Iran and the US at the Strait of Hormuz
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STAGGERING STATS
How do young Brits who display poor understanding of their own history, emerge so ‘knowledgeable’ about Jews – enough to hate them?
By David E. Kaplan
While a UK poll show too few young adult Brits are familiar with their own history, other polls
reveal the toxic character of British society today in their attitudes to Jews!
STAGGERING STATS
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SACRED GROUND, SACRED SAFETY – HOLY SEPHULCHRE NEEDS A SHELTER NOW
The Church should be a protected sanctuary rather than a site for political standoffs- sanctity of life over frictions of the past.
By David Nekrutman and Jonathan Feldstein
in all Christendom, it is not immune from Iranian ballistic missiles. It is also not immune from internal
interfaith bureaucracy that has failed to provide a necessary bomb shelter.
SACRED GROUND, SACRED SAFETY – HOLY SEPHULCHRE NEEDS A SHELTER NOW
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THE OLDEST HATRED IS BACK, AND I AM ABSOLUTELY DONE WITH THIS SHIT, GET ANGRY AND THEN GET ANGRIER
If the West cannot stand with its Jews when they are threatened, blamed and smeared with recycled blood libels, then we are dead as societies.
By Andrew Fox
attack. It is no safer in Europe or the Americas. What does this say about Western society today
and what needs to be done?
THE OLDEST HATRED IS BACK, AND I AM ABSOLUTELY DONE WITH THIS SHIT, GET ANGRY AND THEN GET ANGRIER
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