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I wonder if the press stopped listening to Prasad’s presentation after the grandma video because, quite frankly, the technology that he discussed for Alexa later in his speech certainly gave me the creeps.

- WHAT ARE YOU DOING ABOUT IT?

Speculation is one of the services the media provides -- it is a handy substitute for reasoned argument and debate.  

Israel has allowed the delusion that it can gain Arab and international approval by compromising on its national interests

Landmines should be banned worldwide because they are indiscriminate weapons that kill and maim innocent men, women, and children.

This is the country where religious symbols, including head coverings, are verboten in schools, civil service and sports competitions.

the Debate about ABORTION Reveals Rot at America's Center

(Written by Professor Anne Bayefsky, Director of the Touro Institute on Human Rights and the Holocaust, and President of Human Rights Voices) The UN has started...

It is imperative to ensure that Zionism and Israel are central to the education of the next generation of rabbis.

The Palestinian Authority worships the terrorist who murdered Gail Rubin in the 1978 Coastal Road Massacre.

The only losers, once again, will be the Israeli people.

It was necessary to attack Israel’s heart. To create an illusion of discrimination against the Arabs living in Israel. Not the Palestinians – not the refugees – but the Arabs of Israel itself. By doing this the anti-Israel industry could delegitimise Israel’s very existence.

"Who watches the watchers?"

Only the Jew is immortal

Perhaps the center isn't holding because it SHOULDN'T hold.

To look at the Jews through the frame of the Qur'an is to see them as contemptible, weak, cowardly-yet-warmongering, treacherous losers.

We are used to dealing with witnesses to trauma.

It seems that no matter what the Palestinian Authority says or does—no matter how viciously its representatives denounce America—the money to it keeps flowing.

In the current Israeli political reality, everything is personal. Gone are the days when politicians argued over policy and ideology.

Understanding YU as it exists in the real world rather than as an abstract legal construct makes questioning its religious character akin to asking if Israel is an apartheid state: Spend even a short time there and the insinuation will seem absurd.

As the war has dragged on, European unity has collapsed and efforts to transform the European Union into a European superstate — a United States of Europe — have been exposed for what they are: delusions of grandeur.

Outgoing PM Bennett made mistakes, but he stood up for his principles in dealing with the Americans, tackled the lack of governability and trained Hamas to stay relatively quiet.

From the outset, it was clear that the coalition was destined to fail. Ultimately, the desire to keep Benjamin Netanyahu out of office wasn’t enough to keep a group that agreed on little else together.

Discriminatory commissions that blame Israel for the world’s ills or scapegoat the Jewish state are simply not acceptable.

Israel's PM: "We no longer play with the tentacles, with Iran's proxies: we've created a new equation by going for the head."

French authorities always say, as quickly as possible, that the murder of the Jew was not at all motivated by antisemitism.

Or Offesve Charm? Despite all the warm words in Jerusalem, there’s no sign that the longtime hostility towards Israel is about to ease.

If the European Union wants to reduce its dependency on Russian gas by turning to Israel as an alternative supplier, then Israel is entitled to attach some political conditions to the arrangement.

The international community has worked to thwart measures to stop the illegal building in the area. Often, the Europeans themselves are involved in illegal construction activity in Area C.

The Biden administration is trying to appease Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas and has taken an intermediate step toward reopening the U.S. consulate in Jerusalem, which was closed during the Trump administration. Israel made a mistake by not objecting to the administration’s action, which begins to erode Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.