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“The Safety of the People shall be the Highest Law.” Cicero Eschatology is about certain end-of-life expectations, about “last or final judgments, about death, about God’s judgment and the human “soul.” But what possible connections could link such metaphysical or religious expectations with Israel’s current struggle against jihadist terror? Are there any pertinent legal connections? [...]

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German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said Thursday that Germany will ban any public support shown for the pro-Palestine group Samidoun as fighting continues between Israel and Hamas. In an address to the Bundestag, the chancellor announced that the Interior Ministry would ban both Hamas and Samidoun in Germany, accusing Samidoun of openly supporting terror against Israelis. [...]

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Sharon Basch is an Israeli American who spent the last two years living in Israel before starting her JD at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. Following the firing of Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant Saturday, tens of thousands of Israelis took to the streets all over Israel. Protestors in Tel Aviv blocked the [...]

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“The mass-man has no attention to spare for reasoning; he learns only in his own flesh.” – Jose Ortega y’Gasset, The Revolt of the Masses (1930) In the United States, prima facie, presidential elections represent a core fixture of democracy. Nonetheless, though necessary – and never more so than in the just-completed defeat of Donald [...]

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Over 1,000 Palestinian political prisoners in six Israeli prisons embarked on an indefinite hunger strike starting on Monday, in observance of Palestinian Prisoners Day. The strikers say they want better medical care, more humane transfers between...

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