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What Many Westerners Don’t Get About The Gaza War
The Blogs Efraim Inbar Efraim Inbar is president of the Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security (JISS) and head of the program on Strategy, Diplomacy, and National Security at the Shalem Academic Center. This is a re-posting of a post written for the The Blogs of the internet news site, The Times of Israel, by…
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Franz Julius Delitzsch: 19th Century German Evangelical Theologian and Hebraist
As my studies in Biblical Hebrew progressed from language study, involving grammar, syntax, and linguistic ‘rules of the road’ peculiar to the language, to applying this knowledge practically, I began to study the Psalms exegetically. During the initial stages of studying the Scriptures in Hebrew, in my search for detailed explanatory exegesis of the text,…
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Putin Portrays SMO as a Spiritual Endeavor in Victory Day Speech, Early May 2024
President of Russia Vladimir Putin, on May 9, 2024, once again used the occasion of the country’s Victory Day celebration as a bully pulpit to denounce the “Western elite” (i.e., the countries of the U.S.-led NATO alliance) for encouraging the former Soviet bloc countries to seek independence, in the wake of which monuments, memorials, and…
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Neurodiversity?
In the News & Racing section of the internet-based publication ESCAPE COLLECTIVE RIDING is LIFE©, Chris Marshall-Bell on May 27, 2024, published an article entitled “Harry Sweeny knows he’s not alone,” in which he introduces Sweeny as “the first active pro [cyclist] to publicize his ASD [Autism Spectrum Disorders] diagnosis [and that he] wants to…
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Summer Is Coming, The NRW Bicycle Tour Is Too: The Region of the East Ruhr To Be Explored from 18 – 21 July
The German newspaper, Rheinische Post, in its March 14, 2024, internet edition advertised an upcoming yearly bicycle tour of the North Rhine-Westphalia region. The ride is sponsored by the Western Germany lotto system, WestLotto; the North Rhine-Westphalia Broadcast Network (NRW); and, West German Broadcasting (WDR 4), also located in the Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia.…
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German Antisemitism Commissioner Fears Escalation of Anti-Israel Protests
The internet version of the German-language newspaper Berliner Zeitung reported on Saturday, May 4, 2024, concerning an anti-Israel protest that had occurred the day before on the campus of the Humboldt University in Berlin. One German official voiced the concern that the already widespread feelings of antisemitism could escalate into a protest movement on the…
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Conversion of Turkish Peoples Historically to Russian Orthodoxy Serves To Placate Tensions Between Russians and Turks
Russian internet site https://russtrat.ru, which serves as a propaganda organ for the Putin regime, published an article on its ‘analytics’ page addressing the commonly-held misconception that all Turks are Muslims. The Gagauz ethnic Turkic people are cited as a case in point of those who converted to [Russian] Orthodoxy. Also examined are other Turkic peoples…
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Greece – A Southern Europe Energy Hub
This post contains an abbreviated chronology of the development of the ‘Vertical Corridor,’ a means of supplying natural gas to the countries of Central and East Europe that have been impacted by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. This energy delivery route is being made possible in large part thanks to the efforts made by Greece to…
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Armenia and Azerbaijan: Baerbock Calls for New Negotiations
German news agency, ZDF, using as its sources the German news agency, dpa, and the French news agency, AFP, published an article on its internet site on November 3, 2023, concerning the invitation by German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock (of the Alliance 90/Green Party) to Armenia and Azerbaijan to renewed negotiations under her mediation to…
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Armenia Seeks Rapprochement with Azerbaijan, Agrees to Military Cooperation with Greece, late-February, early March 2024
Armenia, a majority of whose population belongs to the Armenian Apostolic (Orthodox) Church, finds itself the recipient of an unenviable piece of real estate that is squeezed between the two overwhelmingly Muslim nations, Turkey and Azerbaijan. This tension led to the 1915 genocide against the Armenians by the Turks of the Ottoman Empire, and more…
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