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    <description>Rachel Avraham is the CEO of the Dona Gracia Center for Diplomacy and an Israel-based journalist. She is the author of “Women and Jihad: Debating Palestinian Female Suicide Bombings in the American, Israeli and Arab Media.”</description>
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      <title>Beyond diplomacy: Azerbaijan and Israel in an era of shifting global alignments</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[In a region where alliances often fluctuate with political winds, the stability of ties between Baku and Jerusalem stands out precisely because it has been built quietly and incrementally.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2026 19:15:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Behind the rhetoric of sovereignty</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The global system continues to pretend that all states operate on equal terms. Diplomatic language preserves this illusion; crises expose the truth.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2025 11:15:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>The unraveling consensus: Israel between faith, fear and fatigue</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Two surveys by the Dor Moriah Center—one on the Arab-Israeli conflict and the other on Trump’s Gaza plan—expose a profound identity fracture.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2025 23:00:30 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>The courage to stand alone: Why Israel no longer trusts America</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The summer of 2025 marked not only diplomatic confusion; it was when Israel realized that even friends act according to their own interests first.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2025 06:38:30 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Why Trump should consider the United Emirates of Gaza plan</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The Israeli think tank Dor Moriah offers a blueprint for the coastal enclave post-Hamas. Will the U.S. president embrace it?]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2025 08:32:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>How antisemitism in Arab media infiltrates the West</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[English language editors are often unaware of the hate their platforms publish in Arabic.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 18 Jun 2023 12:26:04 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>IsraAID, JDC, Chabad assist Ukrainians on the ground in wake of dam flooding</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[“The Jewish community became a center for everyone. It is a light to the nations,” Rabbi Yosef Wolff, director of the Jewish Community of Kherson Chabad, told JNS.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 08 Jun 2023 18:39:26 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Times are good for Azerbaijan's 30,000 Jews</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mountain, Ashkenazi, Georgian and Sephardi Jews make for a diverse community.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 07 Jun 2023 11:10:13 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>What will Israel look like in 2048?</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Haredim and Bedouin polygamy both threaten the Jewish state's future, former Knesset member Michael Oren says at the launch of his new book.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 26 Apr 2023 06:41:18 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Israeli leaders speak out on Memorial Day</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[“We must do everything to safeguard this shared home,” said Israeli President Isaac Herzog.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 25 Apr 2023 08:18:20 GMT</pubDate>
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