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A bad new Illinois law has put the state on a path to further breakdown of public order.

CITY JOURNAL Illinois’ UN-SAFE-T Act Paul Mauro October 17, 2022 After the 2020 death of George Floyd, jurisdictions across the United States enacted changes to their criminal-justice systems—slates of reforms generally described under the catchall term “bail reform.” One such … Continue reading

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“Yair Lapid trades Mediterranean gas fields claimed by Israel to Hezbollah in exchange for a line of rusting buoys”

ISRAEL HAYOM (by agreement with JNS) Israel-Lebanon deal brought the US back to the region Oded Granot October 13, 2022 No sooner had the announcement of the maritime deal with Lebanon than the politicians started squabbling over it, with both … Continue reading

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“Because it’s unlikely that his name will be publicly remembered for long, it’s worth pausing to consider the grisly murder of Ahmad Abu Murkhiyeh in the West Bank city of Hebron.”

NEW YORK TIMES A Cruel Death in Hebron Bret Stephens Oct. 11, 2022 …Murkhiyeh (some news accounts transliterate his surname as Marhia) was a 25-year-old gay Palestinian man who had been living for two years in Israel and had filed papers for … Continue reading

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“Israeli NGO Shurat HaDin’s legal action against internet giants gets added to US justices’ docket, with decision possibly rendered by the summer of 2023”

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#TwoStateSolution “The idea that a Jewish and a Palestinian state will coexist peacefully is widespread in contemporary academic and political circles but ignores the reality on the ground”

JERUSALEM INSTITUTE FOR STRATEGY AND SECURITY Understanding Israeli-Palestinian two-state solution delusion Professor Efraim Inbar October 11, 2022 …Unfortunately, a stable and peaceful outcome according to the two-state concept is not expected in the near future for two reasons. The two … Continue reading

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Jordan Peterson called Israel the “cardinal model of the nation state,” and asked whether “as Jews in Israel, are you telling the greatest story ever told?”

JNS Conservative stars Jordan Peterson and Ben Shapiro address sellout crowd in Jerusalem Alex Traiman October 6, 2022 Conservative superstars Jordan Peterson and Ben Shapiro lectured a standing-room only audience of approximately 3,000 at Jerusalem’s International Convention Center on Thursday. … Continue reading

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“The Biden administration’s destructive cooperation with an anti-American tyranny is undercutting a brave, principled, and popular opposition movement”

TABLET MAG Khamenei Regime Thugs Attack Iran’s MIT Mariam Memarsadeghi October 7, 2022 Iran’s Islamist regime wields varied instruments of violent repression and totalitarian control, but most detested may well be the Basij force of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, … Continue reading

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“Tistounet, 61, is accused of instructing his staff at the UN Human Rights Council to systematically discriminate against UN Watch executive director Hillel Neuer, an outspoken critic of the council”

UN WATCH Chief of UN Human Rights Council Staff Targeted Watchdog, Leaked Emails Reveal October 7, 2022 The top official at the UN Human Rights Council stands accused of ordering his staff to manipulate speakers lists and engage in other … Continue reading

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Dershowitz: “Universities have an educational and moral duty to foster dialogue and learning, not banning and censorship”

GATESTONE Berkeley Clubs Ban Zionist Speakers Alan M. Dershowitz October 11, 2022 …Those [Berkeley]clubs are engaging in a combination of Stalinism and antisemitism: Stalinism in the sense that they allow no dissenting views from their “politically correct” doctrine of no … Continue reading

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“Invented by the KGB, perpetuated by Western leftists, Palestinianism makes the conflict in the Land of Israel a zero-sum game”

ISRAEL HAYOM (by agreement with JNS) Palestinianism is an ideology and an identity Victor Rosenthal September 29, 2022 …Palestinianism originated in the 1960s and was created by the cognitive warriors of the Soviet KGB. At the time, the Soviets were … Continue reading

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