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Sheldon Kirshner

Sheldon Kirshner

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Nicaragua’s Flimsy Case Against Germany And Israel

12.04.2024 20

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Netanyahu’s Relationship With Biden Deteriorates

31.03.2024 10

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Schumer Went Out On A Limb

16.03.2024 30

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Trust — A Film About A Splintered Jewish Family

27.02.2024 30

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Times Of War: Israel After October 7

13.02.2024 20

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Once Upon A Honeymoon

Three years into World War II, with German armies still on the march and intent on conquering the European continent, RKO Radio Pictures released Once...

05.02.2024 20

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Israel’s Difficult Relationship With UNRWA

03.02.2024 20

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The Kindertransport: What Really Happened

28.01.2024 20

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Court Recognizes Israel’s Right To Self-Defence

27.01.2024 20

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South Africa Has Embarked On A Crooked Road

14.01.2024 20

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The Houthis Expand The Israel-Hamas War

13.01.2024 20

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Filip: A Polish Jew In Nazi Germany

08.01.2024 20

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Houthi Maritime Attacks Demand An Armed Response

20.12.2023 20

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Israel Under U.S. Pressure To Scale Down Gaza War

16.12.2023 20

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Hitler’s Madman: An American Anti-Nazi Film

15.12.2023 40

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Lloyd Austin Should Not Get In Israel’s Way

05.12.2023 10

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U.S. Places Constraints On Israel’s War In Gaza

02.12.2023 10

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Until Victory

28.11.2023 10

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Palestinian Rally Supports Hamas Narrative

I learned about it on the radio on the morning of November 4. Palestinian protesters in Toronto were planning to hold a rally in front of the US...

07.11.2023 30

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Wartime Girls (4)

Nations are sometimes compelled to fight for their very existence. Since the October 7 massacre of 1,400 Israelis and foreigners at the hands of...

06.11.2023 4

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Hezbollah Steps Back From the Brink

Several days before Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah was due to deliver his first speech on Israel’s current war with Hamas, commentators were...

05.11.2023 20

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As The Gaza War Rages, Israel Is Losing Support

To Israel’s detriment, global public opinion is shifting toward the Palestinians, nearly one month after Hamas ignited the fifth and most...

04.11.2023 20

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Russia And China Tilt Toward Hamas

Over the past decade, the Israeli government cultivated and nurtured cordial bilateral relations with Russia and China, two authoritarian states that...

03.11.2023 20

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Hamas apologists rear their ugly heads

Good riddance to Craig Mokhiber! And shame on Cori Bush! These two craven individuals have revealed themselves as contemptible Hamas apologists. ...

02.11.2023 20

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Gaza War Triggers A Wave Of Global Antisemitism

It is virtually axiomatic. Whenever Israel is engulfed in a major conflict with the Palestinians and a significant number of them are killed, there...

01.11.2023 20

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Erdogan Puts Turkish-Israeli Relations In Jeopardy

Israel’s reconciliation process with Turkey has taken an enormous hit as the war in the Gaza Strip escalates. In the last few days, Turkish...

30.10.2023 10

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The War In Gaza Has Reached A Critical Phase

Three weeks after Hamas terrorists murdered 1,400 Israelis and foreigners in southern Israel in the most audacious and devastating terrorist attack...

29.10.2023 10

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Hamas Created Gaza’s Humanitarian Crisis

The current humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip can be primarily pinned on Hamas, the rejectionist Palestinian organization whose bands of amoral...

28.10.2023 20

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West Bank Torn By Upsurge Of Palestinian Violence

While the Gaza Strip trembles to the sounds of loud explosions, the West Bank smoulders with pent-up emotions of resentment and hatred. Gaza is being...

27.10.2023 10

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Netanyahu’s Days as Prime Minister Are Numbered

Twenty days into Israel’s border war with Hamas, Benjamin Netanyahu still has not accepted unequivocal responsibility for the appalling Israeli...

26.10.2023 10

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Golda, The Movie, Is Still Relevant Today

Guy Nattiv’s absorbing feature film, Golda, unfolds during the 1973 Yom Kippur War, but the issues that define it are related to Israel’s current...

25.10.2023 8

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An Israeli Invasion of Gaza Appears Inevitable

The big unanswered question looming on the horizon following Hamas’ cold-blooded slaughter of 1,400 Israelis and foreigners in southern Israel on...

24.10.2023 10

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Israel and Hezbollah Are Already at War

Israel and the United States have warned Hezbollah, Iran’s supreme surrogate in the Middle East, to stay out of the current war pitting the Israeli...

23.10.2023 10

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Hamas’ American Lackeys

Since Hamas’ genocidal massacre of 1,400 Israelis and foreigners in southern Israel on October 7, and Israel’s fierce counter-attack in the Gaza...

22.10.2023 10

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Hamas’ Odious Historical Analogy

As the Gaza Strip war intensifies, threatening to spill over into Lebanon due to Hezbollah’s naked aggression along the Lebanese border, the...

21.10.2023 20

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Joe Biden — Israel’s True Friend

Joe Biden, the president of the United States, was hailed as a “true friend” by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during his unprecedented...

19.10.2023 10

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Egypt’s President Delivers Fake News

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi got two things very wrong in his meeting with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Cairo recently. First,...

18.10.2023 20

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Israel Hopes To Avoid A Two-Front War

The specter of a two-front war bleakly confronts Israel as it prepares to launch a massive invasion of the Gaza Strip in an attempt to topple the...

17.10.2023 20

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Israel’s Catastrophic Security Failure

The catastrophic Israeli intelligence and military failure that enabled some 3,000 Hamas terrorists from the Gaza Strip to breach Israel’s security...

16.10.2023 9

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Donald Trump is a useful idiot

At this grave moment in Israel’s history, when its very existence as a sovereign nation is being challenged by Hamas, Hezbollah and Iran, the former...

16.10.2023 5

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Israel’s Ties With Russia Deteriorate Amid War

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s response to Hamas’ ferocious terrorist attack on Israel last week, the worst in Israeli history, has left the...

15.10.2023 6

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Germany Expresses Solidarity With Israel

This was not just another run-of-the-mill speech by a politician, but a major address of historic and heart-warming proportions. Speaking to the...

14.10.2023 10

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The United States Stands By Israel 100 Percent

Since Israel’s declaration of war on Hamas last week, the United States has come through with flying colors in terms of its strong and unambiguous...

13.10.2023 20

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Hamas and Iran Confront Israel

No irrefutable evidence of Iran’s operational involvement in Hamas’ devastating attack on Israel on October 7 has so far emerged, notwithstanding...

11.10.2023 60

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Hamas War Crimes

Hamas stands nakedly exposed as a deliberate perpetrator of war crimes. During its unprecedented murderous rampage through Israeli communities in...

09.10.2023 10

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Israel’s Darkest Day

It was a stunning, horrific and unprecedented event on a scale that will surely be burned into Israel’s consciousness. In the early hours of...

08.10.2023 20

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Eighteen Days in October

Israel’s fifth war in 25 years is the subject of Uri Kaufman’s masterful book, Eighteen Days In October: The Yom Kippur War And How It Created The...

06.10.2023 10

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Yom Kippur War Memories

Time flies. Incredibly enough, 50 years have elapsed since the eruption of the Yom Kippur War. It broke out on October 6, 1973 and ended 18 days...

05.10.2023 10

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Canada Should Declassify Nazi War Criminal Report

If Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau thinks he can move on seamlessly now that House of Commons Speaker Anthony Rota has been replaced, he is...

04.10.2023 20

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To Be Or Not To Be

Several months before the United States entered World War II, following Japan’s destructive bombing raid on Pearl Harbor, the German-American...

03.10.2023 10

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