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Secretary Antony J. Blinken meets with Qatari Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani in Doha, Qatar, February 6, 2024. (Official State Department photo by Chuck Kennedy)- Wikipedia

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Whitewashing Qatar: The Reporting from Doha is Disappointing – Opinion

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David M. Weinberg Jerusalem Post, Apr. 13, 2024 “But had Qatar wanted to pressure Hamas into a hostage release deal, it might have, for example, threatened to expel Hamas leaders from Doha or cut off their funding. There is no indication that Sheikh Al Thani has even contemplated this.” According to unassailable and well-reported Israeli […]

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Qatar, ‘Leading Sponsor of Terrorism in the World, More than Iran,’ Is Not an Impartial Mediator

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Bassam Tawit Gatestone Institute, Apr. 24, 2024 “Qatar’s dalliance with Islamist groups has long been the primary means for Doha to project influence in the Arab world, particularly through state support for Al-Jazeera Arabic. For too long, Doha has danced between its Islamist allies and its Western and Arab partners.”   Recently, the rulers of […]

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Intel Report: Qatar’s Funding, Policies Led Directly to Oct. 7; It Shouldn’t Be Key Mediator

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David Horovitz Times of Israel, Apr. 8, 2024 “Looking more broadly at Qatar’s dealings with Gaza, the report specifies that Qatar has been fully aware and supportive of Hamas military activities and strategy for over a decade, and that its publicly declared assertion that its funding for Gaza was going to Palestinian welfare rather than […]

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Daily Briefing: PESACH: FINDING INNER MEANING IN TRYING TIMES

NATION BUILDING AND PEOPLEHOOD The People-Forming Passover:  Leon R. Kass, Mosaic Magazine, Apr. 6, 2020 — The essay below is adapted from Founding God’s Nation: Reading Exodus by Leon R. Kass, forthcoming from Yale University Press in January 2021. _________________________________________________________________ That Pain You’re Feeling Is Peoplehood:  Mijal Bitton, Sapir Journal, October 2023 – February 2024 The Undying People:  Meir Y. […]

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Harry Truman’s Seder Message

Stuart Halpern Tablet, Apr. 19, 2024 “Having suffered persecution for centuries, the Jewish people steadfastly adhered to their ancient faith—the faith which gave them courage and fortitude to withstand man’s inhumanity to man. Furthermore, the Jews were frequently in the vanguard of the fight to aid other oppressed minorities.” With Hamas still holding Israeli hostages and […]

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The Undying People

Meir Y. Soloveichik First Things, January 2024 “Anti-Semitism is not a hatred of difference; it is a hatred of Jews.” The collection of Yad Vashem, Israel’s museum of the Holocaust and memorial to its victims, presents us with a chronicle of human barbarity and evil. But in its celebration of those “Righteous Gentiles” who protected […]

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The Right Way to Read the Haggadah

Rabbi Dr. Norman Solomon The Torah.com, Mar. 15, 2024 “I hope that, just as we welcome all four ‘sons’ to our table and read to each according to his needs, we can also welcome all four readers, and take from each according to our needs, and the needs of our generation.” You don’t have to be a […]

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Jewish men praying on their side of the partition at the Western Wall in Jerusalem on a morning during Passover (Source: Wikipedia)

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That Pain You’re Feeling Is Peoplehood

Mijal Bitton Sapir Journal, October 2023 – February 2024 “This is what Jewish peoplehood feels like. The pain is telling us that the organism is working, that we are still a “we.” This pain is the essence of being — or becoming — a Jew.”   The words of the Torah can reflect our profound sorrow in this moment. Each […]

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Israël et ses alliés improbables face au régime iranien

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  Citation de la semaine:  “Etranger est le parent par alliance de l’étranger.” Proverbe arabe                     Table des Matières   L’attaque iranienne contre Israel en chiffre:  i24News,14 avril 2024 Après l’échec de l’attaque iranienne Israël sort de l’isolement: Jforum.Fr, 18 avril 2024  Les USA et l’UE, […]

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Daily Briefing: NO SAFE SPACES FOR JEWS ON COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY CAMPUSES?

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SHABBAT READING   The Skin of the Metzora and the Heart of the Messiah:  Prof. Rabbi Wendy Zierler, The Torah.com, Apr. 19, 2015 — When I was a camper at Camp Moshava, the staff had a penchant for waking us up to Alan Sherman records—the singer and comedy writer who wrote such parodies as “Al and Yetta” […]

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Joseph Massad, Professor of Modern Arab Politics and Intellectual History at Columbia University speaks at the University of Chile on "Semitism and the Abrahamic: Edward Said and Jacques Derrida".- Wikipedia

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Columbia Professor Joseph Massad Admits Palestinian “Return” Is Meant to Destroy Israel

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Elder of Zyon, Dec. 4, 2019 “The Palestinian struggle today, therefore, must not waiver on the implementation of the Palestinian right of return, as this right is the legal key to undoing the Zionist conquest of Palestine in its entirety.”   Joseph Massad is professor of Modern Arab Politics and Intellectual History in the Department of […]

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Inaugural Columbia Task Force Report Confirms Jewish Students’ Claims of Antisemitism

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Jordana Horn Times of Israel, Mar. 5, 2024 “In recent years, it has become increasingly common at Columbia to defer to a protected class’s views,” reads the report. “But when some Israeli and Jewish Columbia affiliates have complained about phrases or comments in recent months, the response has been different, defending the intentions and free […]

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