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1 month ago | 
thespectator.com | Zoe Strimpel |Freddy Gray |Jonathan Sacerdoti |Dave Seminara
As Israelis around the world face cultural boycotts, it was uplifting to see Gal Gadot, an eighth-generation Israeli on one side and the granddaughter of an Auschwitz survivor on the other, honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Tuesday. “I think it’s going to take me time before I even realize that it’s real,” she told Variety.
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1 month ago | 
thespectator.com | Jonathan Sacerdoti |Freddy Gray |Charles Lipson |Jonathan Spyer
In the early hours of Tuesday morning, Israel launched a surprise wave of strikes across the Gaza Strip, targeting key Hamas infrastructure and leadership. This escalation comes after Hamas repeatedly refused to release Israeli hostages under conditions proposed by Israel and backed by US mediators.
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1 month ago | 
thespectator.com | Lara Prendergast |Jawad Iqbal |Jonathan Sacerdoti |Michael Evans
Working at The Spectator brings you into contact with intriguing people. One who stands out is John R. Bradley. He started writing for this magazine in 2011 in the wake of the Arab Spring, having accurately predicted the Egyptian uprising three years earlier in his 2008 book Inside Egypt: The Land of the Pharaohs on the Brink of a Revolution.
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2 months ago | 
thespectator.com | Jonathan Sacerdoti |Arieh Kovler |Jacob Heilbrunn |Eleanor Harmsworth
No matter how many times it is vanquished or decisively discredited, “Palestinianism” persists as an ideology unwilling to die. Rooted in Muslim Arab nationalism, it remains fundamentally opposed to the very existence of Israel — a Jewish, liberal, and free state. Hamas, one of its most notorious champions, has in recent weeks orchestrated a carefully staged spectacle as it releases Israeli hostages from Gaza.
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2 months ago | 
thespectator.com | Brendan O’Neill |Arieh Kovler |Teresa Mull |Jonathan Sacerdoti
While some Fortune 500 companies are dropping DEI programs like hot cakes, many in the Democratic Party are not so eager. Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett, who was almost the official face of the House Democrats’ messaging, has been taking her message that “mediocre white boys” are the ones complaining about DEI to the airwaves of cable news.
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2 months ago | 
thespectator.com | Gavin Mortimer |Arieh Kovler |Teresa Mull |Jonathan Sacerdoti
If a week is a long time in politics then eight years is an eternity. Just ask Donald Trump and Emmanuel Macron. Back in 2017 the two newly-elected presidents met for the first time in Brussels. They shook hands for the cameras, and kept shaking for several seconds, a game of machismo that tickled the commentariat. “That’s how you ensure you are respected,” declared Macron. “You have to show you won’t make small concessions.”The French president believed he was the future.
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2 months ago | 
thespectator.com | Ross Clark |Arieh Kovler |Teresa Mull |Jonathan Sacerdoti
Five years ago this week, former British prime minister Boris Johnson was celebrating the achievement of leaving the European Union and wondering how he might take advantage of Britain’s newfound freedoms. A virus had other ideas. Covid-19 didn’t just turn our lives upside down and cost many lives; it robbed the then government of the chance to seize the initiative and prove that Brexit was worth the pain and inevitable disruption.
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2 months ago | 
thespectator.com | Brendan O’Neill |Teresa Mull |Jonathan Sacerdoti |Ben Domenech
I thought Donald Trump was a woman-hater? TheGuardiantold us he’s a “far-right misogynist” whose return to the White House would strike “visceral horror” into the hearts of women everywhere. He’s the “misogynist in chief,” said CNN. Perhaps someone could explain, then, why he just signed an executive order in favor of women’s rights while surrounded by a joyous throng of beaming girls? The scenes in the White House yesterday were extraordinary.
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2 months ago | 
thespectator.com | Arieh Kovler |Teresa Mull |Jonathan Sacerdoti |Jacob Heilbrunn
Since Donald Trump’s inauguration, Israelis and Americans have been living in two parallel worlds. Israel’s began with the hostage and ceasefire deal in Gaza, which has seen Israeli captives finally released by Hamas after nearly 500 days.
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2 months ago | 
thespectator.com | Jonathan Sacerdoti |Jacob Heilbrunn |Ben Domenech |Kate Andrews
President Donald Trump warned Hamas that there would be “hell to pay” when he returned to the White House if the terrorist organization continued to hold the hostages that it and Gazans have held for almost 500 days. Around eighty hostages, living and murdered, remain in Gaza. Last night, Trump laid out what “hell to pay” could look like: a potential American takeover of the Gaza Strip, maximum pressure against Iran and arms shipments to Israel.
