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Gidon BenZvi
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December 30, 2023
Israel’s Opium AddictionDecoupling Israel from the shackles of Washington’s dealers would yield far more peace and prosperity.
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September 26, 2019
The unbearable cost of a unity governmentCoalition governments are always a bad idea, but in Israel, it would be disastrous.
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September 12, 2019
Israel and India targeted by phony 'human rights' criticsIt's hard to not become disheartened when the very concept of human rights has been hijacked by the world's worst human rights violators.
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September 5, 2019
The curious case of Israel's invisible electionIsraelis, once the most politically engaged citizens of any democracy on the planet, have settled into a low grade stupor just days before a national election.
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August 14, 2019
Ocasio-Cortez positions herself as a 'useful idiot'The freshman congresswoman is providing cover for repressive regimes to perpetrate gross human rights violations with impunity. A useful idiot, indeed.
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June 30, 2019
Tolerance Museums: A Failing Franchise?Tolerance museums are losing the good fight because they've turned the murder of a distinct religious, ethnic, and national group into a broadside against all forms of racism and prejudice.
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June 16, 2019
Life on the runJogging for a good, hard 35 minutes around my neighborhood in southeastern Jerusalem is not at all different from dropping acid, except for the hallucinations, flashbacks, and induced schizophrenia.
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May 23, 2019
Rethinking restitution: A case for Jewish dignityThe way Holocaust survivors have been compensated for their suffering has amounted to a total mess.
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May 16, 2019
Why apologize? The danger of driving anti-Semitism undergroundDisallowing debate and quietly toiling in a culture of instant outrage will result in only the mainstreaming of anti-Semitism in the United States and the ascent of its proponents.
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June 26, 2017
Au revoir, Paris agreement: Biblical perspectives on climate changeThe Bible has always been a source of advocacy for stewardship of the Earth. The environmentalist movement of today, not so much.
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June 14, 2017
Israel: Confronting fake news, one camera at a timeWhile the term "fake news" can be traced to a Donald Trump press conference, Israel has long had to grapple with media outlets bending the truth for political gain.
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May 28, 2017
Confessions of an American Zionist in IsraelBeing culturally schizophrenic means never quite feeling at home. Does that gnawing feeling of being an outsider make me a less than authentic Israeli?
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May 14, 2017
What Israel and Palestine Can Learn from Trump's The Art of the DealSo why hasn't there been an Israel-Palestine peace deal after all these years? Maybe the players could learn something from Donald Trump's The Art of the Deal.
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April 26, 2017
Let Sarsour spew: The case for allowing hate speech on campusThe City University of New York is stirring up controversy by inviting sharia advocate Linda Sarsour to speak. Let her speak and make a fool of herself.
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April 2, 2017
The Folly of Biblical Quote-Mining vs. the Good Things about Archaeological Fact-FindingJews, Christians, Muslims and maybe atheists often cite holy books as evidence God is on their side. Archaeology may be more instructive.
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March 19, 2017
Jerusalem, Los Angeles...You're 18 Only TwiceLearning to drive a car can be a hard thing. I had to learn it twice...in Los Angeles and in Israel.
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March 12, 2017
Jewish Halloween: On Dressing in Drag in the Holy LandIn Israel, Purim is a happy colorful holiday full of children's costumes. So why should a middle-aged man have to wear one?
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March 5, 2017
Terrorism Lessons: The High Price of Israel's Segregated Educational SystemIsrael's balkanized public education system is opening the door to anti-Israel groups to teach terrorism to Arabs. This has to stop.
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February 21, 2017
Why American campuses have fallen to the angry snowflakesA comparison to Israel's campuses tells a lot.
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February 14, 2017
Reality setting in as Netanyahu visit to Trump this week approachesThe shift is on, from hyperbolic campaign mode to a more cautious approach to Middle East diplomacy that acknowledges geopolitical realities.
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December 19, 2016
‪ Remember the Time Obama Tried to Oust a Foreign Leader from Power?‬Not fake news.
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December 5, 2016
Scrap international opinion, build national consensus: The key to ending the Israeli settlement debateIf you missed the news about the Israeli Air Force's alleged bombing of an arms convoy belonging to Hezb’allah and a Syrian Army site in Damascus, you're not alone. And there's a lesson in this.
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November 28, 2016
Why Israel has no use for American Jewish organizationsThe worm has turned, and long gone are the days when such organizations served to bolster Jewish sovereignty by way of a common, nonpartisan commitment to the Zionist enterprise.
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January 26, 2016
France would be speaking German today if human rights groups had existed during World War IIA little dose of reality.