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I remember going to an interfaith Muslim-Jewish dialogue event and thinking how similar our cultures are. The clerics who do not shake women’s hands because it’s not modest are just like our Orthodox rabbis who do the same. The generous portions of food. Food as a language of care. The incredibly delicious Middle Eastern cuisine.…
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Summary: The U.S.-Israel-Lebanon Trilateral Framework vs. U.S.-Iran MoU: Why the Former is More Realistic Two recent U.S.-brokered agreements address the 2026 conflicts: the Iran MoU (Islamabad Memorandum) and the Israel-Lebanon Trilateral Framework. The Trilateral offers greater realism due to Israel’s direct signature and robust, performance-based security guarantees. Key Comparisons: • Parties & Ownership: Trilateral signed…
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Good morning. So I had some downtime yesterday and I watched Gangs of New York. It’s a very famous movie with Leonardo DiCaprio and Daniel de Louis, and it really highlights the interplay between politics, financial corruption, and sheer brutality. And in many ways, nothing has really changed even today, even though people may look…
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The Israel–Palestine discourse shows how political slogans can harden into social facts, even when those social facts do not match the lived experience of human beings. The first stage is the conversion of the claim that Palestine is a sovereign, historically continuous national entity into a politically protected narrative. A complex history is simplified, repeated,…
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The Iran MOU psyop was not just another foreign-policy episode. It was a stress test of American democracy itself, and it exposed how easily a public can be pushed, managed, and emotionally enclosed before it has time to understand what is happening. Phase I looked, to many observers, like capitulation to Iran: a U.S.-brokered memorandum…
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You know, what we saw with President Trump and the Iran MOU—that horrendous Iran MOU—which his so-called social media advisor, Alex Bruesewitz, defended to the point of labeling anyone who questioned it as an ‘influence operation’ or a ‘bot.’ That Iran MOU, and the way President Trump seemed to stand behind it and send Vice…
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Introduction Jews, as human beings created in the image of God, have the right to exist as a free and non-persecuted people. They have equal rights to other human beings, including that of national self-determination. The land of the Jewish nation — religiously, historically, legally, culturally — is the Land of Israel, currently embodied…
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“Lori Hoffman emails: Your Mar 5, 2009 page discusses something you apparently posted about Meir Kin not wanting to give his wife a get. I can’t find your original post but I see Morris’s reply and want to add my voice to it. I know Meir tangentially and his first wife, I used to see…
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On June 23, 2026, former Israeli hostage Ilana Grizewsky testified before the UN Human Rights Council, confronting Reem Alsalem, the Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls. Alsalem is openly biased against Israel: She asked, “Your report speaks of violence against women. Why is there no mention of Hamas?” See report, which has the…
Writing by Dr. Dannielle Blumenthal 