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Moshe-Mordechai Van Zuiden

Moshe-Mordechai Van Zuiden

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The future of the Palestinian Authority, Chamas, and Islamic Jihad without Iran

12.04.2024 20

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Moshe-Mordechai Van Zuiden

Appeasement enrages bullies, also in politics

11.04.2024 10

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What do the worst abusive-relationship therapists do?

10.04.2024 20

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Is it anger that gives this strong urge to assign blame, guilt, and punishment?

04.04.2024 20

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Happy doesn’t equal comfortable, assertive not unfair, and attacked not unsafe

25.03.2024 20

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In times of disasters, we must celebrate because true joy is brave resistance

20.03.2024 20

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I found Trump’s role model: Batman’s the Joker

19.03.2024 20

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‘I never meant to do anything low, wrong, or evil’

06.03.2024 20

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How can peace-loving people oppose a Gaza ceasefire?

04.03.2024 20

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Demonstrators chanting ‘From the river to the sea’ know it’s a call to genocide

29.02.2024 20

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The holy month of Ramadan, piety, and murder

26.02.2024 20

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Peoples and leaders who are friends of the Jews

20.02.2024 20

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Almost everyone could give a higher priority now to supporting their own health

16.02.2024 20

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Integrity demands to disbelieve what Gazans or captured Hamas terrorists now say

07.02.2024 20

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Bio-psychiatry is hijacking our mental health also in Israel

They make and keep us mentally ill, from ADHD to PTSD Jews appreciate asking physicians to help. Unfortunately, thereby, we risk getting the newest,...

03.02.2024 20

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The leading evil of our time is dishonesty

23.01.2024 30

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A glaring lack of gratefulness underlies Jew-hatred

16.01.2024 10

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The truly unjust side effects of true justice

09.01.2024 20

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Likud Crown Prince Nir Barkat’s political demise?

26.12.2023 10

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Are things getting better or worse in the world?

25.12.2023 10

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Why the IDF aims not to hurt civilians in Gaza

21.12.2023 20

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Israel’s friends and enemies seem misinformed about a dozen major issues

None of these are secrets, so they are blind spots and unhelpful 1. Jews will never give up. We are invincible. People sold on exterminating the Jews...

12.12.2023 20

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The meanings of the prayer we insert on Channukah

06.12.2023 20

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No, Ben Gvir, more weapons do not necessarily save lives

04.12.2023 10

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Reassuring truths from the Gaza battlefront

03.12.2023 20

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The silence of Qoshe and stir on social media call me a ‘repulsive Zionist ghoul’

01.12.2023 20

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What to do with tens of thousands of Hamas war criminals and their sympathizers?

20.11.2023 20

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They pretend to serve us but make us addicted to junk in a broad money grab

Pretending to sell us nutrition, the food sector sells us junk food full of empty calories and fake tastes to make us addicted and sell us more junk. ...

07.11.2023 20

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Like Chamas was never deterred, neither is Nasrallah

News reports that Chezbollah is deterred is the old mistake all over again Chamas was never deterred. Every truce was used to build back ‘better’...

06.11.2023 20

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Are we ready for WW III?

Prepare for the worst, hope for the best I’m building on my pieces about WW III and the fastest doesn’t always win. This is not to make us...

03.11.2023 20

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Iran to become chair of the ‘UN Human Rights Council’s Social Forum’

The UN, backer of Iran, backer of Hamas, enemies of the Jews in the open The United Nations needs a name change: the United Tyrannies. Why not make...

02.11.2023 20

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What regular Israelis can do to help our war of survival, soldiers, and wounded

The frontline may be too far, or we may lack weapons, but we all can help I want to focus on immaterial things we can all do. Keep the Unity Too...

01.11.2023 10

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The Simchat Torah Massacre has some of the makings of the beginning of WW III

Prevention needs us proactive and not with a wait-and-see approach What is needed for a war to become global? The Iran-Iraq War never went global...

30.10.2023 20

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Jews uneasier at sharing a workplace with Muslims

This nervousness might linger on longer than even the longest war Since the Simchat Torah pogrom, Muslim Israelis behave beyond reproach despite fears...

28.10.2023 8

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Should we pray for rain?

Not all prayers are created equal In Israel, we’ve begun to pray for rain. If one forgets those words and says the summer prayer, one’s prayer is...

27.10.2023 10

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Hamas committed 15 types of recognized war crimes

Don’t blame all people in Gaza, but do hold the terrorists to account I believe I was the first to point out that Chamas firing rockets at cities...

26.10.2023 10

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I don’t want a ground offensive

My oldest son is one of the leading soldiers; he’s ready—I’m not. In every ground offensive, many of our soldiers will die. Did not enough Jews...

24.10.2023 8

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How Quantum Mechanics proves there are no QM parallel universes

QM is too hard for me, but I may spot inconsistencies all right QM is way above my brain capacity, but sometimes, I can contribute because I detected...

23.10.2023 10

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On why the Dutch do nothing, and Germans actively protect Jews

Something is rotten in the state of the Netherlands Warning: Don’t expect me to solve the puzzle, or you’ll be disappointed. I found two dozen...

22.10.2023 20

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Seek the peace of the city to there where I exiled you, and pray for it to G^d

So that its peace will become peace for you (Jeremiah 29:7) The Prophet’s advice in his letter to the exiled Jews in Babylonia is clear. Rabi...

20.10.2023 10

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The solution is not to kill Hamas and the like

About respect, love, and protection for all Jews The problem does not lie with Chamas in Gaza, or Chamas worldwide, nor any of the Palestinian...

19.10.2023 10

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On spotting liars in the news

Fake news is nothing new, but it’s rising to new ‘heights’ for sure Top liars first share a bit of truth to entice us to gain access to our...

18.10.2023 20

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Open letter to Muslim Israelis in the wake of the Simchat Torah massacre

I’m sorry to address you in such a hard time. Abysmal What terrible carnage, loss of life, loss of dignity, loss of property, loss of humanity, what...

15.10.2023 5

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Worse than the Nazis

Killing Jews happily Often, when something is compared to the Holocaust, it both exaggerates the thing and downplays the Shoah at the same time. In...

14.10.2023 20

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The secular in Judaism

For Christianity, the secular and the sacred are opposites The below text is a brief summary made available for readers’ personal use and for...

13.10.2023 20

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Hasbarah under fire

Believing everything everybody says and writes is not saintly; it’s stupidity. I’m not literally under fire, but still, but I report from a war...

12.10.2023 4

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Random acts of kindness are our best hope for life

Save a Jewish Soul or two by being a nicer person Judaism is not a religion, is unlike Christianity and Islam. Judaism advocates a life committed to...

11.10.2023 10

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Why, in the end, will innocence always beat evil, and love always defeat hatred?

Life is not an equal opportunity employer. Good and love are favored. Optimism is no good unless it’s part of realism. Let’s not confuse being...

10.10.2023 20

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Why is Simchat Torah also called the Eighth Day?

It’s not the Feast of Tabernacles already, so what’s the connection? The non-answer is that it follows the seven days of Sukkot. That doesn’t...

09.10.2023 20

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An Orthodox Rabbi argues against sexuality for gays

Here’s an email exchange I got after sending my Yom Kippur piece to him. I will copy the Rabbi’s responses verbalizing the traditional stance in...

07.10.2023 10

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