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      <title>The voice of a human shield</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[By omitting mention of Hamas in a “docudrama” up for an Oscar, “The Voice of Hind Rajab” implies that a young girl was intentionally attacked by the IDF.]]></description>
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      <title>The Isaac Accords should focus on dismantling Hezbollah</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The strategy, modeled after the 2020 Abraham Accords, is to build a union of economic and diplomatic cooperation in Latin America.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2026 09:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Two Egyptian wrongs don’t make a right</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Cairo abandoned its peace-treaty obligation that mandated it to prevent acts of belligerency against Israel from originating on its territory.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2026 07:31:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>The Israeli emigration myth</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[At first glance, you might think that Zionism is doomed. But the dire warnings are a false alarm.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 28 Dec 2025 13:15:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Hamas’s approach to building troop strength: Recruit kids</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[No one knows how many tens of thousands of children the terror group has militarized during its radical reign. What is clear is that the applicable international authorities have failed to protect them.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2025 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Israel’s dual rights to self-defense against Iran</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[International law allows for self-defense against an armed attack and “anticipatory self-defense” against an imminent armed attack.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2025 19:55:43 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>The truth about ‘No Other Land’</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The Oscar-nominated documentary film is a polemic of Palestinian grievance against Israel. Expect to be agitated, not educated.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 27 Feb 2025 17:30:21 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Contrary to complaints, Israel is not displacing anyone in Gaza</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Actions by the Israel Defense Forces during the war have been in alignment with international humanitarian law.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 22 Dec 2024 08:31:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>The unwanted two-state solution</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Why do the United States and Israel keep offering Palestinians something they consistently and violently oppose?]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 12 Sep 2024 20:45:15 GMT</pubDate>
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