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And They’re Off: The US Is Driving a Middle East Nuclear Arms Race

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Jonathan Schachter The Hill, Apr. 25, 2023 “In August 2020, the Wall Street Journal reported that, with the help of China, the Saudis have built a facility to process uranium ore. In December of the following year, the Journal revealed that the kingdom, again with Chinese assistance, is producing its own ballistic missiles.”    From its […]

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Saudi Arabia-Hamas Relations: At A Turning Point?

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Yohanan Tzoreff and Yoel Guzansky INSS Insight No. 1722, May 11, 2023 “The proximity of the visits prompted speculation that Riyadh seeks to strengthen its influence in the Gaza Strip and perhaps promote reconciliation between Hamas and the Palestinian Authority.”   The Hamas leadership, including Chairman of the Political Bureau Ismail Haniyeh, visited Saudi Arabia in […]

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BIDEN CORRUPTION INVESTIGATION PHASE TWO RELEASED: MEDIA ALL BUT BURIES STORY

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  How Theodor Herzl’s Vision Created the Modern Jewish State: A Fireside Chat With David Matlow, Owner Of World’s Largest Collection of Herzl Memorabilia:  Honest Reporting Canada, May 10, 2023 — On May 14, 1948, David Ben Gurion, Israel’s first prime minister, proclaimed the Jewish State’s independence. Across Israel, euphoria erupted as crowds celebrated the country’s rebirth […]

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America’s State Media: The Blackout on Biden Corruption Is Truly ‘Pulitzer-Level Stuff’

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Jonathan Turley The Hill, May 13, 2023 “The coverage this week has all the markings of a state media. The consistent spin. The almost universal lack of details. The absurd distinctions.”   This week, Rep. Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) tried to do the impossible. After he and his colleagues presented a labyrinth of LLC shell companies and […]

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Corruption of President Biden – and of the Justice Department, and of the Media

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Francis Menton Manhattan Contrarian, May 12, 2023 “For those who think that the Times may be ready to give up on Biden and throw him under the bus, I don’t think they’re there yet. They are in full Praetorian Guard mode.”   On Wednesday Congressman James Comer and some colleagues held their long-promised press conference […]

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Investigate the Biden Family Corruption Allegations, Wherever They Lead

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Matt Lewis Daily Beast, May 12, 2023 “…why would Biden family members seemingly go to such great lengths to create shell companies to confuse anyone attempting to trace the money?”   While everyone was focused on the E. Jean Carroll verdict, George Santos’ indictment, and CNN’s town hall with Donald Trump this week, allegations that the Biden family profited from […]

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How the Biden Corruption Empire Ran Under the Radar for So Long

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James Bovard NY Post, May 10, 2023 “How did Biden get away with being so squirrely for so long? US money-laundering regulations are practically designed to shroud crimes by American politicians.”    I know Romanian corruption. When I was exiting the country in 1987 after investigating its collapsing economy, I made sure to bribe every guard who […]

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Daily Briefing: CAN ISRAEL’S RELIGIOUS-SECULAR DIVIDE BE HEALED?

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SHABBAT READING Family Feeling: Behar, Bechukotai, 5776, 5783:  Covenant & Conversation, The Rabbi Sacks Legacy — I argued in my Covenant and Conversation for parshat Kedoshim that Judaism is more than an ethnicity. It is a call to holiness. In one sense, however, there is an important ethnic dimension to Judaism. Have Religious Israeli Jews Given Up on Israel’s Secular Society? – […]

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7 Israeli Artists Who Are Bridging the Religious-Secular Divide

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Ori Weisberg Unpacked, Apr. 25, 2023  “Everyone leaves his father’s home, everyone nearly sacrifices his child, deep within is a little Sodom that he wishes to erase already, and angels will rescue him.”    Calling Israel a “Jewish State,” with nearly 75% of its population being Jewish, might suggest Israelis share a great deal in […]

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Bridging the Unbridgeable Divide Between Religion and Secular Modernity

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Jeffrey Sacks Mosaic Magazine, Dec. 10, 2018 “[T]hough geographically the two cities [of Jaffa and Jerusalem] were only several hours apart by train, the journey between them was one between two worlds.” In 2006, a distinguished American Jewish essayist took the occasion of his 50th high-school reunion to reflect in Commentary on the decisions made a half-century […]

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The Soloveitchik Solution 

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David P. Goldman  Tablet, May 10, 2023  “Let me offer an outrageous claim as a starting point for this discussion: Torah more than Greek hochma is the source of modern science.”   Liel Leibovitz depicts poignantly the conflict between secular and religious Israelis, concluding that “soft appeals to brotherhood and shared destiny aren’t likely to resolve it.” I stand with […]

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Have Religious Israeli Jews Given Up on Israel’s Secular Society? – Opinion

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Moshe Taragin Jerusalem Post, Apr. 28, 2023 “Sadly, we are rapidly losing our common narrative.”   Israeli society is currently entangled in a complex web of controversial issues. The core debate surrounds the future of Israeli democracy, judicial reform, and the issue of political checks and balances. This purely legal issue, however, has unleashed a racial […]

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