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      <title>Distancing Israeli Arab moderates instead of drawing them closer</title>
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      <description> &lt;img align='right' src='https://www.jpost.com/httphandlers/showimage.ashx?id=290926' alt='Balad MK Basel Ghattas (photo credit: MARC ISRAEL SELLEM/THE JERUSALEM POST)' title='Balad MK Basel Ghattas (photo credit: MARC ISRAEL SELLEM/THE JERUSALEM POST)' /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Morality aside, anti-Arab rhetoric is counterproductive at a time when the Arab public is moving away from its radical leaders.&lt;br /&gt; </description>
      <Photographer>MARC ISRAEL SELLEM/THE JERUSALEM POST</Photographer>
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      <title>This Islamic State madness has gone on long enough</title>
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      <description> &lt;img align='right' src='https://www.jpost.com/httphandlers/showimage.ashx?id=291332' alt='ISIS threatens to 'uproot the Jewish state' (photo credit: screenshot)' title='ISIS threatens to 'uproot the Jewish state' (photo credit: screenshot)' /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The time for indecisiveness is over.  If the world is to be freed from the madness of IS, the time for positive action is now.&lt;br /&gt; </description>
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      <title>An obsession with Israel that even trumps national self-interest</title>
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      <description> &lt;img align='right' src='https://www.jpost.com/httphandlers/showimage.ashx?id=288976' alt='The tents of the illegal Palestinian village of Sussiya, with the Jewish settlement in the background. An EU logo is on a sign not far from the Palestinian flag (photo credit: TOVAH LAZAROFF)' title='The tents of the illegal Palestinian village of Sussiya, with the Jewish settlement in the background. An EU logo is on a sign not far from the Palestinian flag (photo credit: TOVAH LAZAROFF)' /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Europe prioritizes our conflict over wars that are not only much bloodier, but also do far more harm to its own welfare.&lt;br /&gt; </description>
      <Photographer>TOVAH LAZAROFF</Photographer>
      <pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2015 12:42:16 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Israel-Palestine: French recipe lacks ingredients</title>
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      <description> &lt;img align='right' src='https://www.jpost.com/httphandlers/showimage.ashx?id=290282' alt='French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius gestures during a press conference at the Mukataa compound, in the West Bank city of Ramallah, on June 21, 2015.  (photo credit: ABBAS MOMANI / AFP)' title='French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius gestures during a press conference at the Mukataa compound, in the West Bank city of Ramallah, on June 21, 2015.  (photo credit: ABBAS MOMANI / AFP)' /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;France has consistently defended Israel’s right to exist in security, while long advocating the creation of a Palestinian state.&lt;br /&gt; </description>
      <Photographer>ABBAS MOMANI / AFP</Photographer>
      <pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2015 18:06:12 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Israel's core challenge - staying alive in an age of enemy 'martyrdom'</title>
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      <description> &lt;img align='right' src='https://images.jpost.com/image/upload/f_auto,fl_lossy/q_auto/c_fill,g_faces:center,h_530,w_758/267915' alt='Missile fired from warship during Iranian naval drill [file] (photo credit: REUTERS)' title='Missile fired from warship during Iranian naval drill [file] (photo credit: REUTERS)' /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Whether in Gaza, the West Bank, or Tehran, Israel's Jihadist enemies wish to kill Jews because every such homicide is felt to be a sacred obligation.&lt;br /&gt; </description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2015 14:47:32 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>The European Union risks 'Jew-hater' label</title>
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      <description> &lt;img align='right' src='https://images.jpost.com/image/upload/f_auto,fl_lossy/q_auto/c_fill,g_faces:center,h_530,w_758/268898' alt='Protesters call for boycott of Israel [file] (photo credit: REUTERS)' title='Protesters call for boycott of Israel [file] (photo credit: REUTERS)' /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The BDS campaign regards the ending of all trade and economic relations with Jews living in Judea and Samaria as just the “first step” in its campaign.&lt;br /&gt; </description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2015 13:42:54 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>A model for resolving clashes between Jewish and liberal values</title>
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      <description> &lt;img align='right' src='https://www.jpost.com/httphandlers/showimage.ashx?id=290447' alt='A protester holds a copy of the bible outside of the US Supreme Court building in Washington June 15, 2015. The US Supreme Court on Monday rejected a bid by the state of North Carolina to revive its law requiring women seeking an abortion to have an ultrasound of the fetus performed and described to (photo credit: REUTERS)' title='A protester holds a copy of the bible outside of the US Supreme Court building in Washington June 15, 2015. The US Supreme Court on Monday rejected a bid by the state of North Carolina to revive its law requiring women seeking an abortion to have an ultrasound of the fetus performed and described to (photo credit: REUTERS)' /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Israel’s abortion policy is an all-too-rare example of a compromise that gives both sides something important.&lt;br /&gt; </description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2015 17:30:55 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Delhi, Beijing must fight terror together</title>
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      <description> &lt;img align='right' src='https://www.jpost.com/httphandlers/showimage.ashx?id=290438' alt='A view of the city's skyline from the Beijing Yintai Centre building at sunset in Beijing (photo credit: REUTERS)' title='A view of the city's skyline from the Beijing Yintai Centre building at sunset in Beijing (photo credit: REUTERS)' /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sino-Indian ties are on firm footing in almost every dimension of diplomacy today.&lt;br /&gt; </description>
      <Photographer>REUTERS</Photographer>
      <pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2015 15:50:26 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Russia and Islamic State – time for action</title>
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      <description> &lt;img align='right' src='https://images.jpost.com/image/upload/f_auto,fl_lossy/q_auto/c_fill,g_faces:center,h_530,w_758/262849' alt='Smoke rises above an old terminal (L) and an administrative building of the Sergey Prokofiev International Airport after the recent shelling during fighting between pro-Russian separatists and Ukrainian government forces in Donetsk, eastern Ukraine, November 9, 2014. (photo credit: REUTERS)' title='Smoke rises above an old terminal (L) and an administrative building of the Sergey Prokofiev International Airport after the recent shelling during fighting between pro-Russian separatists and Ukrainian government forces in Donetsk, eastern Ukraine, November 9, 2014. (photo credit: REUTERS)' /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The time has surely come for the civilized world to bite the bullet and take out Islamic State, as well as Russia's ploy for power over Ukraine.&lt;br /&gt; </description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2015 14:31:20 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Arm the Syrian Druse - we owe it to their Israeli kin</title>
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      <description> &lt;img align='right' src='https://www.jpost.com/httphandlers/showimage.ashx?id=289580' alt='JABER HAMOUD (second left), head of the Druse and Circassian Local Councils Forum, protests in Sajur Sunday.  (photo credit: SOHEL MUSTAFA)' title='JABER HAMOUD (second left), head of the Druse and Circassian Local Councils Forum, protests in Sajur Sunday.  (photo credit: SOHEL MUSTAFA)' /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Refusing help would be a slap in the face to Israel’s most loyal non-Jewish citizens.&lt;br /&gt; </description>
      <Photographer>SOHEL MUSTAFA</Photographer>
      <pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2015 17:39:09 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>BDS – sinister hoax with genocidal objective</title>
      <link>https://www.jpost.com/experts/bds-sinister-hoax-with-genocidal-objective-406313</link>
      <description> &lt;img align='right' src='https://www.jpost.com/httphandlers/showimage.ashx?id=288274' alt='A balloon with the phrase "Boycott to Israel" is seen during a Euroleague basketball game between Maccabi Tel Aviv and Barcelona in Barcelona  (photo credit: REUTERS)' title='A balloon with the phrase "Boycott to Israel" is seen during a Euroleague basketball game between Maccabi Tel Aviv and Barcelona in Barcelona  (photo credit: REUTERS)' /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The BDS campaign is set to swallow many more well-intended people into its Jew-hating vortex.&lt;br /&gt; </description>
      <Photographer>REUTERS</Photographer>
      <pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2015 16:29:15 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Beating the BDS Jew-haters</title>
      <link>https://www.jpost.com/experts/beating-the-bds-jew-haters-405694</link>
      <description> &lt;img align='right' src='https://images.jpost.com/image/upload/f_auto,fl_lossy/q_auto/c_fill,g_faces:center,h_530,w_758/261841' alt='Dome of the rock and Israeli flag (photo credit: MARC ISRAEL SELLEM/THE JERUSALEM POST)' title='Dome of the rock and Israeli flag (photo credit: MARC ISRAEL SELLEM/THE JERUSALEM POST)' /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A Harvard student expected that a trip to Israel would confirm his reasonable European certainty of Israel’s arrogant oppression; That’s not quite the way things turned out.&lt;br /&gt; </description>
      <Photographer>MARC ISRAEL SELLEM/THE JERUSALEM POST</Photographer>
      <pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2015 13:08:36 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>You can’t win a PR war by fighting on the enemy’s side</title>
      <link>https://www.jpost.com/experts/you-cant-win-a-pr-war-by-fighting-on-the-enemys-side-405692</link>
      <description> &lt;img align='right' src='https://images.jpost.com/image/upload/f_auto,fl_lossy/q_auto/c_fill,g_faces:center,h_530,w_758/256637' alt='Herzog meets with Abbas in Ramallah (photo credit: OFFICE OF ISAAC HERZOG (LABOR))' title='Herzog meets with Abbas in Ramallah (photo credit: OFFICE OF ISAAC HERZOG (LABOR))' /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Israel needs to stop arguing the Palestinians' case and start arguing its own.&lt;br /&gt; </description>
      <Photographer>OFFICE OF ISAAC HERZOG (LABOR)</Photographer>
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      <title>Who’s fighting who in the Middle East?</title>
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      <description> &lt;img align='right' src='https://images.jpost.com/image/upload/f_auto,fl_lossy/q_auto/c_fill,g_faces:center,h_530,w_758/278725' alt='Shi'ite Muslim rebels in Sanaa, Yemen, March 26, 2013 (photo credit: REUTERS)' title='Shi'ite Muslim rebels in Sanaa, Yemen, March 26, 2013 (photo credit: REUTERS)' /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the ever-shifting kaleidoscope of political, religious, economic, strategic and tactical considerations that mark the Middle East, little is clear-cut in deciding between friend and foe.&lt;br /&gt; </description>
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      <title>What Israel can learn from the Eurovision song contest</title>
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      <description> &lt;img align='right' src='https://www.jpost.com/httphandlers/showimage.ashx?id=287326' alt='Nadav Guedj representing Israel performs during a dress rehearsal for the second semifinal of the upcoming 60th annual Eurovision Song Contest in Vienna (photo credit: REUTERS)' title='Nadav Guedj representing Israel performs during a dress rehearsal for the second semifinal of the upcoming 60th annual Eurovision Song Contest in Vienna (photo credit: REUTERS)' /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Israeli's PR focus on the peace process highlights the country’s failures rather than its successes; and people dislike failures.&lt;br /&gt; </description>
      <Photographer>REUTERS</Photographer>
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      <title>Saudi Arabia’s new broom</title>
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      <description> &lt;img align='right' src='https://www.jpost.com/httphandlers/showimage.ashx?id=288478' alt='Clouds move over the Riyadh skyline  (photo credit: REUTERS)' title='Clouds move over the Riyadh skyline  (photo credit: REUTERS)' /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the few short months since he ascended the throne, Salman has shown himself to be a pragmatic man of action in both the domestic and foreign arenas.&lt;br /&gt; </description>
      <Photographer>REUTERS</Photographer>
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      <title>Netanyahu's target wasn’t Israeli Arabs, but foreign-funded NGOs</title>
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      <description> &lt;img align='right' src='https://images.jpost.com/image/upload/f_auto,fl_lossy/q_auto/c_fill,g_faces:center,h_530,w_758/277880' alt='An Israeli Arab casts her ballot at a polling station inside a church in the northern town of Reineh (photo credit: REUTERS)' title='An Israeli Arab casts her ballot at a polling station inside a church in the northern town of Reineh (photo credit: REUTERS)' /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The prime minister's election day faux pas has been deliberately misconstrued by omitting its second half&lt;br /&gt; </description>
      <Photographer>REUTERS</Photographer>
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      <title>The Reshaping of the Middle East</title>
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      <description> &lt;img align='right' src='https://www.jpost.com/httphandlers/showimage.ashx?id=287613' alt='Smoke rises from buildings near the national hospital, after what activists said was shelling by warplanes loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad in the town of Jisr al-Shughour, Idlib province May 22, 2015 (photo credit: REUTERS)' title='Smoke rises from buildings near the national hospital, after what activists said was shelling by warplanes loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad in the town of Jisr al-Shughour, Idlib province May 22, 2015 (photo credit: REUTERS)' /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; </description>
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      <title>A golden chance to shift the Foreign Ministry’s priorities</title>
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      <description> &lt;img align='right' src='https://images.jpost.com/image/upload/f_auto,fl_lossy/q_auto/c_fill,g_faces:center,h_530,w_758/277299' alt='Members of the Joint Arab List gesture during a news conference in Nazareth, January 23 (photo credit: REUTERS)' title='Members of the Joint Arab List gesture during a news conference in Nazareth, January 23 (photo credit: REUTERS)' /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That’s the message from JAL’s decision to skip an Arab League meeting. And it’s good news for Israel.&lt;br /&gt; </description>
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