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- Our Soldiers Speak, a US-based NGO, "the first, and currently sole organization globally, bringing uniformed IDF soldiers, officers and generals from the field to the campuses and communities throughout the English-speaking world"
- Israel Builders Association warning that in a country where it takes 15 years to approve a single new housing development, “2030 is tomorrow and 2050 is the day after tomorrow”
- Unprecedented event in Erbil features Sunni and Shiite leaders and activists demanding that Baghdad join Abraham Accords; Lapid: Event in Iraq is a ‘source of hope and optimism’
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- Hamas reveals new terror tunnels in underground video report [VIDEO]
Tag Archives: Ottoman Empire
“‘International law’ hardly demands a ‘two-state solution’ to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Nor can it properly limit Israel’s sovereignty over its own territory”
TABLET MAG Yes, Israel Can Apply Israeli Law to the West Bank Eugene Kontorovich January 14, 2026 …There is a simple, clear rule to determine the borders of new countries, whether they arise from imperial collapse, decolonization, federal breakup, cession, … Continue reading
Posted in Islam, Israel & Middle East, Jewish, Politics
Tagged Eugene Kontorovich, Jordan, Judea, Natasha Hausdorff, Ottoman Empire, Samaria, West Bank
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“Under a doctrine known as takfir, these jihadis excommunicate and, on many occasions, kill Muslims who decline to toe their theological line”
FDD The many shades of Islam Clifford D. May December 31, 2025 …It was not until the 1920s, in the aftermath of World War I, that the Ottoman Empire collapsed and the last Ottoman caliph, Abdülmecid II, boarded the Orient … Continue reading
Posted in Islam, Israel & Middle East, Politics
Tagged Jihadists, Muslim Brotherhood, Ottoman Caliphate, Ottoman Empire
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Recalling the lessons of Armenia
WASHINGTON TIMES by Clifford May April 28, 2015 Genocide of 100 years ago is recurring, now in the Middle East Displayed outside the Turkish embassy in Washington last week was a large banner reading, “Armenian genocide is an imperialist lie.” … Continue reading
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Tagged Armenian, Armenian Genocide, Christians, genocide, Ottoman Empire, Turkey
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