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Israel's theological narratives fuel the Gaza war, while Palestinians fight every day for truth, their rights and survival ...

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Schumer has been gentle with a rising Democratic political star who has said things about Israel that the Jewish senator has ...

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THE first thing Stephen Redmond noticed when he arrived into the West Bank was the kindness of a people living through horror ...

Too often we tend to think that the Declaration of Independence was a creature which sprang to life between June 7, 1776, ...