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Oscar-winning Doc is All Too True

Its narrative focus is upon the evolving partnership and friendship of two filmmakers — one a villager and the other an Arabic-speaking Israeli journalist, who is readily accepted for who he is, a “Yahud” (Jew) who has come in solidarity.

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Books Are Dangerous?

This Israeli journalist was shocked by the police raid on the Educational Bookshop, a highly regarded institution in East Jerusalem, and the arrest of its owner and his nephew.

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Navigating Around Trump’s Gaza ‘Riviera’

My dream scenario would be the imposition of moderate Arab forces and funding to oversee reconstruction and to shepherd in governance under a reformed Palestinian Authority, with the ultimate goal of negotiating peace with Israel.

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Where 2024 Leaves Israel in 2025

2024 represents yet more descent down the slippery slope toward a conflicted, non-democratic, immoral, isolated, messianic and binational entity between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean. Yet … Israel’s security community registered dramatic victories over Iran, Hezbollah and almost the entire Axis of Resistance or Shiite Crescent.

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