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      <title>Palestinians as victims, but of whom and of what?</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[To think clearly about today’s hostilities, look at their historical “all-or-nothing” geopolitical strategy.]]></description>
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      <title>Palestine is more a cause than a place on a map</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The foundation of agony no longer belongs only to them; many in the Middle East can legitimately claim to be victims of prolonged abuse and injustice.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 16 Feb 2025 21:01:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Oct. 7 is apocalypse now</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[A language of lies and hate threatens to conquer the mind of the West.]]></description>
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      <title>A specter haunting the university</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The emphasis on feelings over facts is undermining the legitimacy of academia.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 26 Nov 2023 17:26:45 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Judaism can show the way on abortion</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Between the furious extremes, most Americans want a reasonable compromise on abortion, and Judaism can offer hope and guidance]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 25 Jul 2022 15:34:59 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Fuzzy language can’t change Afghanistan reality</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Efforts to divert attention from what is actually happening have thus far not succeeded.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 10 Sep 2021 10:24:56 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Settler colonialism backfires</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Told repeatedly that they confront an enmity so implacable and evil in character that only a totally mobilized world can destroy it, Palestinians can logically conclude that the independence enjoyed by other nations is beyond their reach.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2021 17:04:53 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>The Jewish state: Zionism’s success, not failure</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Substituting action for prayers gave Zionism its purpose. Work, rather than textual study, would be the vehicle for legitimizing possession, creating community and for transforming sites holy in scripture into a homeland.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2020 17:23:28 GMT</pubDate>
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