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Dancing on “The Tomb of Caleb” – The Facts Under the Ground

According to Numbers 13-14, Moses sent a group of spies to spy out the promised land. The spies returned to the whole assembly of Israel, and discouraged them from entering into the land, claiming that they had seen giants there. But Caleb, … Continue reading

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Netanyahu: The Land of Our Forefathers… or not

In today’s Ha’aretz, Jonathan Lis sorts out the truth from the lies in Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu’s speech before the U.S. Congress on Tuesday: [Netanyahu:] “We’re not the British in India. We’re not the Belgians in the Congo. This is the … Continue reading

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Imagined Communities: Netanyahu’s speech to US Congress

In his speech before the US Congress on Tuesday 24 May, Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu, Prime Minister of Israel, notes how he suffers at the thought of having “to give up parts of the ancestral Jewish homeland”. Very graciously – acting … Continue reading

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The Story of David and Goliath Employed to Support/Lament Israel’s/Palestine’s Independence/ Nakba

I read the news today, oh boy: …An Israeli military spokesman, Captain Barak Raz, said that Israeli troops at the Syrian border “fired only at those infiltrators trying to damage the security barrier and equipment”. So the crime for which … Continue reading

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