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Historian Benny Morris supports Prime Minister Netanyahu’s resolve to attack Rafah (“Israel’s Security Depends on Rafah,” NY Times, 11 April 2024). Normally home to 280,000 Gazans, Rafah now also contains 1.2 million internal refugees swept into the city during Israel’s massive ethnic cleansing the past six months. It’s probably the most densely populated spot on […]

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In a recent debate moderated by Lex Fridman, a nullity seated beside Professor Benny Morris expounded on the nuances of the Genocide Convention: “I think it’s called dolus specialis, it’s the most important part of genocide, which is proving it is a highly special intent to commit genocide.” This writer innocuously and uncontroversially interjected: “That’s […]

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In a recent debate moderated by Lex Fridman, I challenged Professor Benny Morris to answer my detailed book chapter on his scholarship (“History by Subtraction,” in my book Knowing Too Much). The point at issue was simple and straightforward: Morris has repudiated his original historical conclusions without demonstrating why his old evidence was wrong or […]

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Sam Harris prides himself on his exquisite, cool rationality.  It is “obvious,” he says, that Muslim society is “powerfully deranged.”  It produces a prodigious number of suicide bombers.  Even Muslim children are “rigged to explode.”   It is thus “obvious” that this “powerfully deranged” culture poses a lethal threat to Western civilization.  What is to be […]

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An analysis of the “voluntary” displacement of the Gaza Strip and related, by Mouin Rabbani Senior Israeli leaders, including Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, are again publicly advocating the ethnic cleansing of the Gaza Strip. Their proposals are being presented as voluntary emigration schemes, in which Israel is merely playing the role of Good Samaritan, selflessly […]

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Written and compiled by Yaniv Cogan and Jamie Stern-Weiner Forwarded this email? Subscribe here for more Fighting Amalek in Gaza: What Israelis Say and Western Media Ignore Written and compiled by Yaniv Cogan and Jamie Stern-Weiner NOV 12 READ IN APP Israel’s allies have claimed that it “is not deliberately trying to kill civilians” (US National Security […]

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