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      <title>‘Two-state solution’ isn’t best for either side</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The dream of generations—the fulfillment of which the Jews in Israel are bringing to pass—was not for a nine-mile-wide coastal strip, sans the Judea and Samaria hill country heartland and historic Jerusalem.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 02 Jul 2019 18:39:33 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Haven’t we resolved the ‘Zionism is racism’ debate?</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Much is based on envy and jealousy of the success of the Jewish people and their tiny state in the direct face of this persistent onslaught.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 29 May 2019 22:15:33 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Stop trying to set Israel’s borders … and other suggestions for US Jewry</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[It’s not for American Jews to tell Israeli Jews how to define their national borders, which is not hyperbole, but an existential decision. It’s for Israelis to do whatever they need to.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2019 17:47:16 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Why were two nights this Passover different from all other nights?</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[There is no sugar-coating the emotional intensity or the Jewish historical ramifications related to the fundamental differences between Israeli and U.S. Diaspora Jews on the State of Israel’s final borders.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2019 00:55:26 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Democrats need to get tough on anti-Semitic, anti-Israel rhetoric in their party</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Jews should know better than most that hateful words lead to hateful actions.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 13 Mar 2019 20:30:47 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>What’s in a name? Hebrew origins of Palestinian Arab towns in Judea-Samaria</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[“The Peoples of Our Land in 1932” states that west of the Jordan River, 277 villages and sites had names that were similar to or the same as Jewish villages in these locations during Second Temple times.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2019 15:40:15 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>10 toxic terms that pro-Israel advocates must fight</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The phrases, descriptions and definitions that need to be explained, and the truth that needs to be repeated (over and over again).]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2019 16:29:10 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Not the right time for the ‘deal of the century’</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The Palestinian Authority continues to spew hatred of Jews and Israel in its mosques, schools, camps, media and charters, naming streets and plazas for its murderers of Israelis, and incentivizing its people to kill Jews in a sick program known as “pay to slay.”]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 24 Dec 2018 23:04:35 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>‘Tikkun olam’: A return to our true mission</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[There is no concept in Judaism of “social justice,” but there is indeed one of “justice” (tzedek). The word does not merely indicate legal rights but also compassion and humanity, and is the root of the word for “charity” (tzedakah).]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 03 Dec 2018 20:18:44 GMT</pubDate>
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