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Maccabi Lev Ari

Maccabi Lev Ari

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The Day America Betrayed the Jewish Homeland

The Day America Betrayed the Jewish Homeland

Something has happened over the past two days that I never thought I would witness. Not after October 7. Not after the hostages. Not after two and a...

18.06.2026 50

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Maccabi Lev Ari

The Israeli Assumption That Broke

The Israeli Assumption That Broke

Why the proposed Iran framework is causing many Israelis to question something far larger than a single deal. Something feels different this morning....

15.06.2026 50

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Maccabi Lev Ari

When Business and Foreign Policy Share a Room

When Business and Foreign Policy Share a Room

As reports emerge regarding the proposed U.S.-Iran agreement, reportedly known as the Islamabad Memorandum, senior Israeli officials are raising...

14.06.2026 50

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Maccabi Lev Ari

Sanctioning the Actual Victims of Ethnic Cleansing

Sanctioning the Actual Victims of Ethnic Cleansing

How the international debate over Judea and Samaria often ignores the expulsion of Jewish communities between 1948 and 1967 Imagine telling the...

13.06.2026 50

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Maccabi Lev Ari

When Kings and Prime Ministers Admit They Failed Their Jews

A remarkable thing has begun happening across the Western world: Kings, prime ministers and heads of state are beginning to admit that they failed...

08.06.2026 60

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Maccabi Lev Ari

The Muslim Brotherhood’s Sponsor: Qatar’s Quiet Conquest of the West

Imagine a country the size of Connecticut, floating on an ocean of natural gas, that set out to do what the Soviet Union never quite managed: reshape...

04.06.2026 50

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Maccabi Lev Ari

War on the Jews, Part III: Israel, The Alfred Dreyfus of Nations

An allegation. A public verdict. An institutionally protected narrative. Only later come the questions. It happened in 1894, and it is happening again...

30.05.2026 60

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Maccabi Lev Ari

War on the Jews, Part II: The Warning is Now a Pattern

“First comes the presumption of guilt. Then the social normalization. Then the institutionalization.” In October 2025, I warned that the world was...

28.05.2026 50

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Maccabi Lev Ari

From Skinhead Boots to Social Media Feeds: The Psychology of Hate

Fifty years ago, recruiters needed boots, bars, football terraces, and street corners. Today they need a smartphone. The shaved heads disappeared but...

24.05.2026 70

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Maccabi Lev Ari

How Many Wars Must Israel’s Self-Employed Survive Alone?

There is a quiet crisis unfolding in Israel — one that triggers no sirens, interrupts no broadcasts, and rarely makes headlines. Yet it is no less...

10.04.2026 70

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Maccabi Lev Ari

A Passover Digital Plague: Mario Nawfal and the Spread of Conspiracy Theories

Every year at Passover, Jews retell the story of the ten plagues — forces that spread, disrupt, and reshape reality itself. The defining feature of...

01.04.2026 90

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Maccabi Lev Ari

The October 8 Reality and the Two-State Delusion

Passover is coming, and the warnings we once ignored feel impossible to ignore now. Twenty-four years ago tonight, families sat down for a Passover...

27.03.2026 60

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Maccabi Lev Ari

The Ballistic Reality That Demands an Apology Tour

If there were ever going to be an apology tour, this would be the moment. For months, the dominant narrative across large segments of Western media,...

22.03.2026 80

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Maccabi Lev Ari

It Can’t Happen Here: A Year That Destroyed Jewish Assumptions

For generations, many Jews living in democratic societies have held a quiet belief: “It can’t happen here.” After the horrors of the 20th...

15.03.2026 70

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Maccabi Lev Ari

The West Delayed on Iran and the Costs Were Human

30.01.2026 90

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Maccabi Lev Ari

Social Stupidity and the Necessity of Jewish Vigilance

24.12.2025 80

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Maccabi Lev Ari

When Jewish Memory Moves From History to the Present

19.12.2025 70

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Maccabi Lev Ari

Jews Were Murdered Again, And This Is Why No One Can Claim Surprise

17.12.2025 100

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Maccabi Lev Ari

The Violence Did Not Start on Hanukkah — Only the Honesty Did

16.12.2025 100

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Maccabi Lev Ari

The Big Lie Returns

17.11.2025 90

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Maccabi Lev Ari

The Big Lie: Israel/Palestine Edition

14.10.2025 80

The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Maccabi Lev Ari