A disparate group of Islamist clerics has been busily predicting that the State of Israel will disappear in 2022, citing the Koran for support. The prediction has been circulating in earnest …
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By Ben Cohen
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7/6/22
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As a kid in the 1970s and 1980s, I remember that the adults around me had a standard explanation for why so many countries around the world kept Israel at arms’ length. It was, they …
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By Ben Cohen
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6/28/22
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There was another significant announcement from an Arab capital last week about relations with Israel when Qatar, the wealthy Gulf nation that provides Hamas with financial and political support, …
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By Ben Cohen
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6/16/22
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The ugly truth about France is that Jewish people are not safe from anti-Semitic attacks even in their own homes. This has been proved time and again in the last few years, most recently in the …
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By Ben Cohen
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6/8/22
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Nearly 20 years after the overthrow of Saddam Hussein’s regime in a US-led invasion, Iraq remains at war with Israel, as has been the case since the foundation of the Jewish state in 1948. …
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By Ben Cohen
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6/1/22
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It took several days, but eventually, the world’s media grasped why the scandal at Frankfurt Airport last week, when more than 100 Orthodox Jews were prevented by the German airline …
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By Ben Cohen
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5/18/22
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Did Russian President Vladimir Putin really apologize to Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett for the atrocious remarks on the Holocaust uttered by his Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov?
There …
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By Ben Cohen
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5/11/22
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A recent letter delivered to UN Secretary-General António Guterres by 200 former senior UN officials included a bleak warning regarding the consequences should diplomacy fail to end …
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By Ben Cohen
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5/4/22
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Back in October, I wrote about the strange case of Gil Ofarim, a popular German Jewish singer who leveled a charge of anti-Semitic discrimination against an employee of the Westin Hotel in …
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By Ben Cohen
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4/6/22
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The International Luxembourg Forum on Preventing Nuclear Catastrophe is the perfect example of an organization with an imposing name and an illustrious advisory board that you’ve still …
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By Ben Cohen
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4/25/22
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