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    <description>Douglas Altabef is chairman of the board of Im Tirtzu and a director of the Israel Independence Fund. He can be reached at: dougaltabef@gmail.com.</description>
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      <title>A tale of two polities</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Americans and Israelis see the merit of the Iran war effort very differently.]]></description>
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      <title>Not coming in from the (New York) cold</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Just as the homeless face the worst of the elements, the response to their situation is overcome with political correctness and virtue-signaling.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2026 18:15:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>The mouse is really roaring</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Israel’s recognition of Somaliland is generating headlines for sound reasons.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 30 Dec 2025 20:35:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Disarming Hamas is not a Palestinian priority</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[No game, set, match: The terrorist group is buying time to regroup and re-establish itself.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 02 Nov 2025 10:31:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Make Palestinian terrorist Marwan Barghouti into Hamas’s Gilad Shalit</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The price for the release of a terrorist serving multiple life sentences needs to be the return of all Israeli hostages, alive and dead, at one time.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2025 16:45:23 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Relentless attacks on Jews and Israel require pushback</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[While our ancestors would have appropriately marveled at the opportunity to defend a Jewish state, in our day, it is a growing challenge.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2025 20:58:25 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>License to kill</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[It is only natural that those who hate Israel—from the halls of power to mobs in the street—will find validation, justification and even encouragement to intensify their efforts.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 23 May 2025 19:42:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Breaking out of our own idea silos</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Perhaps Rabbi Hillel can point the way to understanding and better communication.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2025 09:21:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>The fault line that runs through American Jewry</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[More and more nonreligious and progressive American Jews are moving away from Israel, and probably from religion, too.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 06 Mar 2025 07:42:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>The ascension of a Jewish political philosophy</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Ronen Shoval’s "Holiness and Society” explores Jewish political thought through the lens of the Bible.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 10 Dec 2024 10:40:00 GMT</pubDate>
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