Category Archives: Politics

“Over the past decade or so, the warnings about smartphones have reached a fever pitch. Netflix’s “The Social Dilemma”revealed just how badly social media algorithms warp our brains, changing our behavior and beliefs”

FREE PRESS How Jonathan Haidt Won the Fight Against Smartphones in Schools Olivia Reingold December 30, 2024 …Part of the book’s power is its simplicity. Haidt spells out four “foundational rules” to inspire a “Great Rewiring of Childhood.” They are: … Continue reading

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“The new rulers of Syria have been sending out messages demanding that Israel return to the ceasefire line, and the US and other countries have also begun to exert pressure on the Netanyahu cabinet to retreat”

JEWISH PRESS Israel Establishing Extensive Military and Civilian Control in Southern Syria David Israel December 26, 2024 Israel is establishing extensive military and civilian control in southern Syria, the Lebanese daily Al-Akhbar reported Wednesday. According to the report, the IDF … Continue reading

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“Israel has roared back to crush Hamas and defang Hezbollah, leaving the Assad regime in Syria to crumble and all their masters in Iran to fret, without air defenses, over Bibi’s next move”

WALL STREET JOURNAL The Inside Story of Israel’s Comeback Victory Elliot Kaufman December 21, 2024 …“Hezbollah doesn’t want to continue the fight right now,” Mr. Netanyahu says. Neither do the Iranians. “They were dumbfounded when we took out their critical … Continue reading

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In Gaza: about 5,000 naturally occurring deaths, including cancer fatalities, have been opportunistically added to the tally of “victims”

NATIONAL POST Exposing Hamas’s phony casualty statistics Jesse Kline December 23, 2024 …The idea that most of the dead in the Israel-Hamas war are women and children is often heard in western media, which has been uncritically regurgitating Hamas talking … Continue reading

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“Perhaps the pope believed that pointing a finger at the Jews will divert Muslim rage from the Vatican”

JNS Millions of Christians are under Islamist assault, so Pope Francis targets the Jews Charles Jacobs and Uzay Bulut December 23, 2024 Christians face persecution, discrimination, forced conversion and even mass murder for their faith in many parts of the … Continue reading

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Zionism is the modern enactment of Hanukkah’s assertion of the right to Jewish independence, and the necessity of the Jewish state even for Jews outside

NATIONAL REVIEW Happy Hanukkah, and Am Yisrael Chai Jon Levin December 25, 2024 The deep Zionism of the Hanukkah story resonates especially in this era of endemic anti-Zionism and antisemitism. Hanukkah celebrates Jews’ successful assertion of their right to live … Continue reading

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Druze history is “a part of the still highly disputed story of why so many Arabs left the war zone of the First Arab-Israeli War (AKA Israel’s War of Independence) in 1948”

FUTURE OF JEWISH The Big Druze News You Didn’t Hear About Sally Prag December 26, 2024 A few days ago, a number of Druze villages in the Syrian Golan Heights announced that they wanted Israel to annex the area of … Continue reading

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“Removing the Iranian regime, often described as the “mother of all terrorism” and the godfather of terrorist groups, would bring lasting security and prosperity to the Middle East and beyond”

GATESTONE Thank You, Israel, for Saving the World, Defending Freedom and Reshaping the Middle East Majid Rafizadeh December 21, 2024 …In just over a year, Israel has succeeded in reducing Iran’s regional influence, effectively dismantling or weakening the pillars of … Continue reading

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Last September, the group StopAntiSemitism named Thunberg “Anti-Semite” of the week and stated, “she has sadly transformed her activism into a platform for vile Jew-hatred”

FEDERALIST Animosity Against Jews Demonstrates Leftist Icon Greta Thunberg’s Extremism Peter Murphy December 26, 2024 Greta Thunberg, once the darling of the climate change movement, has revealed herself as virulently anti-Israel, which should make her a pariah in any legitimate social … Continue reading

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The village of Hader held a town meeting over the weekend, with residents heard calling for Israel to annex the Syrian community rather than coming under the rule of jihadists

I24NEWS IDF meets Syrian Druze leaders after call to join Israel December 15, 2024 Israeli army officers have held their first meetings with the leaders of Syrian villages captured in the Golan in recent days, following the fall of Bashar … Continue reading

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