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A friend this week alerted me to “TruNews,” a media outfit run by Rick Wiles. I had never heard of him, or “TruNews,” so I watched his take on the recently concluded “Christ at the Checkpoint” conference.
The Israeli Right’s Campaign Against Israel

How can anyone complain about the Palestinian Authority, when Israel is single handedly thwarting the chance for a separation? Creating one state serves Hamas and the BDS movement, not the Zionist vision. That’s the problem that is making more and more Jews and friends despair.
Why Do the Media Keep Encouraging Hamas Violence?

Calling this the “dead baby strategy” may seem cruel, because it is cruel. But don’t blame the messenger for accurately describing this tactic.
For Eliezer Ben Yehuda, the Prophetic Return of the Hebrew Language was ‘No Dream’

Eliezer Ben Yehuda has dedicated the last 10 years of his life to rebrand his grandfather, who revitalized the Hebrew language, as a hero both in the Jewish and Christian worlds.
Checking the Smart Abbas

Mahmoud Abbas thinks everything that happened in the Arab world over the past seven years has been part of an American plot to harm the Palestinians.
Zionist ‘Nachas’

For more than two-thirds of our national existence, Jews were without an army of their own.
Israeli Obstacles to Peace

US President Trump intended to cut off US funding of UNRWA entirely this week.
Iran: An Interim Assessment

The protests in Iran appear, for now at least, to be subsiding. The key moment was the decision to task the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps with security in the three provinces that formed the center of the unrest – Hamadan, Isfahan and Lorestan.
Debating BDS with Cornel West

I recently debated Professor Cornel West of Harvard about the boycott movement against Israel. The topic was resolved: “The boycott, divestiture, and sanctions (BDS) movement will help bring about the resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.”
Right-wing Anti-corruption Protest Is Just the Tip of the Iceberg

Anyone paying attention to the discourse developing in the Right in general, and in Likud in particular, knows that the frustration there is on the rise; the things being said about Netanyahu, and not just behind closed doors, are far from expressions of unconditional support.