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Israel: The Nation and the State

A wise person once remarked, “Artificial Intelligence (AI) may be intelligent, but it’s still artificial.” I tested that when I queried my AI, “When did Israel become a nation?” It confidently responded: “Israel became a nation on May 14, 1948, when David Ben-Gurion declared the establishment of the State of Israel.” Upon seeing this answer,

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Echoes of the Past: Recognizing the Signs of Rising Hatred

I have seen everything that’s happening today before. I have lived through these times before. And I know where they lead. I was born in 1924 in Karlsruhe, Germany. As a child, I witnessed Hitler’s rise to power, which began around the time I was nine years old. For the first three years of school,

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The Battle of the Gods

“Allahu akbar!” These are often the first words to pierce the subconscious minds of many Jerusalemites in the predawn darkness. They’re not alone. The adhan, the Islamic call to prayer, rings out like clockwork every morning from countless minarets, the thin towers pointing heavenward like green fingers over mosques across cities worldwide. The call stirs

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Dousing Iran’s Ring of Fire

Thirteen years after the opening shots of the Syrian Civil War rang out on March 15, 2011, the devastating conflict came to an abrupt finale—against all odds and all in just over a week. Damascus fell to a coalition of rebels led by the Islamist militant group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) on December 8, 2024,

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The Officers of the IDF

My first encounter with an officer of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) was in 1985 at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, home of the US Army Field Artillery. Assigned there for the Officers Advanced Course, I was privileged to sponsor one of the allied nation officers in attendance: Captain Nir Granot from Tel Aviv. My wife and

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Pogroms: History Repeating Itself

On the night of November 6, 2024, Maccabi Tel Aviv football club fans left the stadium in Amsterdam after a match between the Israeli team and the local team, Ajax. They flooded into the streets to find what the city’s mayor described as “antisemitic hit-and-run squads” waiting. Multiple gangs of rioters screaming “Free Palestine,” many

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To Life!

Jenan Matari wrung her hands uneasily as she peered bravely into the camera. “This is a very heavy, uncomfortable video,” she began. Matari paused briefly, as if bracing under the burden of the message she was about to deliver. “We’re going to talk about the existence of Israel as a sadist entity as a whole,”

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Widows and Orphans: The Group No One Wants to Join

January 15, 2025

My mother was a widow for twelve years. I saw in my own family the sorrow a widow feels when she loses her spouse. I witnessed the loneliness and the ongoing pain as every holiday rolls around. Even though my mother wasn’t destitute, she was emotionally wounded for the rest of her life because she

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They Never Forgot Jerusalem

In the rugged, mountainous region spreading over parts of northern Iraq, southeastern Turkey, northwestern Iran and northernSyria lies Kurdistan, the home of an ancient Iranic people group. Dwelling among them in isolated communities were Jews who had lived there since the Assyrians brought them from the northern kingdom of Israel in the eighth century BC.

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Fighting on the Front Lines of Freedom

Everyone seems to have an opinion on why the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) wages war. In the midst of International Criminal Court arrest warrants, ceasefires and UN resolutions, it’s easy to forget that at the heart of this complex conflict are the Israelis who serve as soldiers. These men and women, often depicted in the

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