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    <description>Stephen M. Flatow is president of the Religious Zionists of America. He is the father of Alisa Flatow, who was murdered in an Iranian-sponsored Palestinian terrorist attack in 1995, and author of A Father’s Story: My Fight for Justice Against Iranian Terror. (The RZA is not affiliated with any American or Israeli political party.)</description>
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      <title>The real test of Trump’s counterterrorism strategy</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Will Washington impose consequences on countries that finance, protect or shelter terrorists, even when they are American allies?]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 13:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>America gave Jews freedom of faith</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[For a people who had known expulsions, ghettos, forced conversions, restrictions, humiliation and violence across centuries of exile, that promise was revolutionary.]]></description>
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      <title>From Columbia to Michigan, Israel-hatred is being made respectable</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[What was once dismissed as a fringe campus problem is no longer staying on the fringe.]]></description>
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      <title>Moving a deadline only invites aggression</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The regimes testing U.S. resolve are not operating under the same assumptions as in the past.]]></description>
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      <title>When a ‘just’ war becomes an unjust talking point</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Jewish law distinguishes between wars that are discretionary and those that are obligatory. A war of self-defense is not merely permitted, but required.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 13:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>When ‘pro-Israel’ stops meaning defense</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Weakening systems to stop missiles from falling down on Israel does not restrain conflict. It invites it.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 16:00:22 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>A regime that sends children to war is already losing</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Doing so represents a grim admission: A country or army lacks the manpower, legitimacy or will to rely on adults.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 14:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>America learned to seize Iranian assets, but not to keep them</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[A case in point is the announced settlement between the U.S. government and the Iranian-linked Alavi Foundation over a Manhattan skyscraper.]]></description>
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      <title>Actors turned politicos</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The question is why the Academy Awards have become a stage for geopolitical pronouncements at all.]]></description>
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      <title>From Henry Ford to Tucker Carlson: The politics of ‘just asking questions’</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[There is a clear line between legitimate debate and the revival of a familiar historical trope: the suggestion that Jews are manipulating great powers into wars for their own purposes.]]></description>
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      <category><![CDATA[Antisemitism]]></category>
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