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      <title>Why Israel’s war against Hamas is necessary</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[A war can be both morally justified and legally constrained. Israel’s campaign against Hamas is exactly that. It was not launched lightly or recklessly—it was waged in defense of life, sovereignty and the rule of law.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 20 Apr 2025 06:12:16 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Israel's High Court just shattered the international courts' false Gaza narrative</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The truth matters. The law matters. And what Israel’s Supreme Court just showed is that even in the fog of war, when politics runs hot and justice often runs cold, there is still room for reasoned, moral and lawful adjudication.]]></description>
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      <title>Rewarding a UN antisemite</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The American Branch of the International Law Association is giving a top award to a deplorable U.N. official.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 05 Oct 2023 13:09:27 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Does Harvard’s ‘Veritas’ apply to Israel?</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[There can be no other way to look at the university’s decision on former Human Rights Watch head Ken Roth than as a cowardly and pitiful.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2023 10:48:01 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Religious freedom as a universal message of Hanukkah</title>
      <link>https://www.jns.org/opinion/arsen-ostrovsky/religious-freedom-as-a-universal-message-of-hanukkah</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[Although a uniquely Jewish story, the lessons of the holiday apply to everyone, irrespective of individual faith or background.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2020 12:30:35 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Annexation vs. sovereignty: Words matter</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[It is factually incorrect to assert that Israel intends to “annex” territory to which it has legitimate claim and that never has been part of a “state of Palestine.”]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2020 10:56:20 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>The ICC just became a tool of Palestinian lawfare</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[By becoming a willing pawn of the Palestinians, International Criminal Court chief prosecutor Fatou Bensouda has politicized the court and brought its very legitimacy into question.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2020 06:49:51 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>International community must hold Hamas accountable</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Hamas in Gaza rained down more than 450 rockets in the space of four to five hours. Imagine if even one—just one—rocket was to hit an American city?]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 13 Nov 2018 21:07:13 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Lessons from Kristallnacht</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[As the great Spanish American philosopher George Santayana said: “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 09 Nov 2018 17:37:28 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Advocating for Israel, from Israel: Reflections on ‘aliyah’</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[It’s not that I ever felt out of place in Australia. It’s just that in Israel, I have at last found a place where I truly belong.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 22 Oct 2018 15:53:10 GMT</pubDate>
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