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      <title>Jesus in the rubble: How Christmas propaganda is made</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Propaganda does not need long manifestos. An iconic image is enough—instantly legible, universal, viral.]]></description>
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      <title>Israel was not given on a silver platter</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The United Nations offered a diplomatic starting point and a set of suggested borders, but it did not provide sovereignty, real borders on the ground, security or survival.]]></description>
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      <title>The UN repealed a sentence, but the anti-Israel narrative lives on</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The United Nations never declared that Zionism is not racism; it never debated why the original equation was a libel. It simply removed a diplomatic obstacle.]]></description>
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      <title>The Soviet role in turning anti-Zionism into a popular cause</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Soviet-Palestinian propaganda presented anti-Zionism as morally noble, connected it to anti-imperialism and cloaked it in the language of “global peace.”]]></description>
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      <title>Propaganda by analogy</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Words like “genocide,” “apartheid” or “racist regime” carry immense moral and political weight. Once applied to Israel, they create automatic outrage.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2025 09:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>The colonialism no one talks about: Arab imperialism</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[To call Jewish self-determination “colonialism” while ignoring the Arab conquests that Islamized the region uses historical erasure as a weapon against Israel.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2025 09:25:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>The Crusader myth</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[In modern Islamist discourse, Israel, like the ancient Crusader kingdoms, is a foreign implant sustained by the backing of Western countries.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2025 13:45:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>They did not surrender</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Max Brod wrote about Tel Aviv during Israel's War of Independence. His work and his message are strikingly similar for Israel today.]]></description>
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