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"difficult days ahead" for the battered and bleeding nation. “We are on the
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Canada’s largest Jewish community – a ‘twin city’ of Sderot – hosts political
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Let the lioness rise, let her shatter the mountaintops with her deafening roar
and devour those who provoked her. Return us.
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What I learned at Harvard
As a Jewish progressive in the Diaspora, I have never felt so betrayed as I have
by these so-called human rights defenders
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It’s morning in Israel
You’re so tired but you may never sleep again, your friend’s son is missing,
your daughter needs a ride, you’ve made sandwiches for soldiers, and it’s just
beginning
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Hamas’s messianic violence
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of divine justice and cosmic warfare, and why it appeals to so many in the West
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Loud, proud, and uncompromising, I stand with Israel
Whatever Israel determines to be the right response to this atrocity deserves
unstinting and total support
Peta Jones Pellach
Who’s counting?
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hours before the attack that I prayed with Muslims
Matt Futterman
‘Militants’? ‘Fighters’!? No, these butchers killed hundreds in cold blood
International media whitewashes Hamas’ monstrous disregard for human life that
my son discovered in Operation Cast Lead
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