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President Obama’s departure for his Hawaiian vacation the other day reminded us of the chaotic scene at the end of the Vietnam War when desperate American military and civilian personnel were extricated from Saigon by hovering helicopters while surging North Vietnamese troops, pressing forward with their encirclement of Saigon, were mere yards away.

This past week, the news of Jacob Ostreicher’s still unexplained surprise exit from Bolivia and the extraordinary extent of the National Security Administration’s program of spying as revealed by Edward Snowden took center stage. And there are important lessons to be learned from both developments in terms of how we should view criminal justice issues.

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An educator must not be satisfied until that soul he refuses to handle, love, nourish and develop is registered in another school, one more caring and embracing.

Let me make it plain. There will be mass murder, even genocide in Syria.

"U.S. Weighing Closer Ties With Hardline Islamists in Syria"

The widespread support for "Hitler" [Jamal Abu al Rub] reflects the state of dissatisfaction with Abbas and his top aides.

I began to hear rumors that North Korea was using poison gas to kill selected political prisoners.

Penn managed to sneak Ostreicher across a hostile border and into a safe and currently undisclosed location in the United States.

"In Egypt, a civil state means a modern nationalist state that is compatible with Islamist provisions." — Ali Gomaa, Egypt's former Grand Mufti.

A large number of pro-Obama and radical or even anti-Israel cadre are Jews.

Experts on the media have jumped in to advise against taking selfies.

What originally seems like fun can quickly turn into a buzz kill.

There is no way to know how much damage the leftist lunacy has done to the NBC News brand.

The Nazis intended to obliterate our religion, as well as our bodies.

In modern political parlance “compassionate” is a euphemism for ever-expanding government.

A wake up call to action for the Jewish community.

The Yesh Atid-sponsored draft law is very different from what you have been reading in the haredi press and hearing from haredi politicians and activists.

Ever since he vanished, the American government had repeatedly asserted that Levinson was a private businessman -- his own safety.

National park status is, unfortunately, not an ironclad guarantee against Arab encroachment.

It’s been more than ten years since Parkinson’s moved into our home.

Still facing an effectively unhindered nuclear threat from Iran, Israel will soon need to choose between two strategic options.

God decided to cast Truth down to earth and went on to create the world.

The late Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach did not belong to any religious movement, but his daughter Neshama now belongs.

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Apparently there has been no let-up in Secretary of State Kerry’s drive to bring about a peace agreement between Israel and the Palestinians within the nine-month period he prescribed last year, which ends in April 2014.

Much attention has properly been paid to the problems inherent in the provisions of the Geneva agreement struck with Iran. There are substantial loopholes that allow Iran to run trucks through its commitments and Iran seems to have been able to blunt the full court press that had been mounted against it in the form of economic sanctions and threats of military force.

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All these polls asked either “Do you agree that Israel is conducting a war of extermination against the Palestinians?” or, alternatively, “Do you agree Israel behaves toward the Palestinians like the Nazis do?”