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Bibi’s Big Day: When Words Matter…And When They Don’t
The consensus, both within Israel and abroad, is that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu snatched an electoral victory from the jaws of imminent defeat by both resorting to race baiting and burying the...
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Israel Intercepts One Ton of Radioactive Iranian Condoms Bound for Gaza
by Gidon Ben-Zvi, The Israeli Daily The Israeli Navy says it seized a ship early on Sunday that it claims Iran was using to smuggle tens of thousands of radioactive rubbers to Palestinian militants in...
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Israeli Tour Guide Fools Israelis into Believing They’re in Egypt
by Gidon Ben-Zvi (writing as Cliff Magnum) Shlomi Bezalel, a licensed private tour guide, tricked 75 Israeli tourists into thinking that they were visiting Cairo. In fact, the group never left Israel....
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New Poll: 80% of Palestinian Men are Attracted to Israeli Women
By Gidon Ben-Zvi (writing as Cliff Magnum) Indicating a seismic shift in public opinion from just six months ago, a poll conducted by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research (PSR) in the...
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A Killing Kind of Love: Obama’s Iron Dome Ruse
By Harry Ben-Zvi and Gidon Ben-Zvi Iron Dome launching an interceptor missile. Photo by Nehemiya Gershoni courtesy of the IDF Summer is nearly upon us. In Israel, this is traditionally a time for...
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Iran Suspected of Hacking into CIA Website and Planting Funny Computer Virus
By Gidon Ben-Zvi (writing as Cliff Magnum for The Israeli Daily) Cybercriminals from the Islamic Republic of Iran have allegedly stolen tens of thousands of documents related to the country’s nuclear...
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Dozens of Women Accuse ISIS Leader of Respectful Treatment
By Gidon Ben-Zvi (writing as ‘Cliff Magnum’ for ‘The Mideast Beast’) The world’s most powerful Jihadist, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, is engulfed in a...
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Should I Stay Or Should I Go? An Israeli’s Letter to his American Family
Below is a letter I sent to my concerned family in response to the latest terror wave gripping Israel. Hey all,It’s gotten increasingly tense around here. Still, we go about our daily lives: working,...
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What if Kyrgyzstan Named a Street in Honor of the Boston Marathon Bomber?
This article is a parody in response to the very real news that a Palestinian town is naming a street after a local who killed two Israelis. This piece originally appeared in the Jewish Journal on...
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Bibi’s Game: Talk Tough on Iran, Pass 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Collect $5...
According to several reports, Israel wants $5 billion per year in military aid for the next 10 years. Jerusalem has been signaling that it wants more money to counter threats it says will arise as a...
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Israel Can Establish Diplomatic Relations with the Arab World by Learning...
The geopolitical landscape surrounding Israel is shifting in such a way that if navigated correctly could lead to full diplomatic relations between Jerusalem and Sunni Arab governments around the...
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France Would Be Speaking German Today if Human Rights Groups Existed During...
Since the outbreak of attacks and attempted attacks against Israeli citizens that began in October 2015, human rights groups such as B’Tselem have been rushing to the defense of Palestinian residents...
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Separate but Equal? Egalitarian Prayer Space at Western Wall Makes Israel...
A member of “Women of the Wall” group wears a Jewish prayer shawl and Tefillin a monthly prayer session at the Western Wall in Jerusalem’s Old City. May 10, 2013 Credit: Reuters A plan to create a...
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Indict, Expel, Repeat: How Israel Can Create a Loyal Arab Citizenry
Arab-Israeli journalist Lucy Aharish. Photo is screen shot from Reshet.TV While the Knesset Ethics Committee decided to ban three Arab MKs from parliamentary activity earlier this week following a...
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Two Lives To Live: How Would Living in the United States Change My Daughters?
The eminent philosopher Yogi Berra said that when you come to a fork in the road, take it. On a recent family holiday to the United States, I did just that. With such mundane pressures as job, bills...
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What Revolution? As American Campuses Roil, Israeli College Students Crack...
Donald Trump’s victory over Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election has set off a wave of hysteria across American college campuses. From ‘The West Wing’ levels of righteous indignation...
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Jewish Halloween: On Dressing in Drag in the Holy Land
During the month of March, should you suddenly find yourself surrounded by a bunch of young girls who are dressed up like Catwoman, you may well have stumbled into a Purim street party. The Jewish...
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Israel Up in Smoke: Middle Class Myths about Marijuana Use
Earlier this month, the Israeli Cabinet approved the decriminalized use of marijuana. According to the proposal formulated by the Public Security and Justice ministries, first-time offenders in...
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Bible: The Folly of Quote Mining, The Virtue of Fact Finding
What gets lost in the din of competing narratives between Jewish and Arab claims to the land currently known as Israel is the historicity of the holy books these groups cite as evidence that God is on...
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Who Killed the Holocaust?
Who Killed the Holocaust? By Harry Ben-Zvi and Gidon Ben-Zvi Ever dream of winning an Academy Award? It’s quite easy, actually: brush up on your Holocaust history. Case in point: out of seven nominated...
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