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September 15, 2025

When the Jewish Sense of Responsibility Becomes a Source of Slander

Odious topsy-turvydom.

When, in 2011, Israel made the fateful decision to free 1,027 terrorists in exchange for the release by Hamas of the hostage Gilad Shalit, a British journalist named Deborah Orr wrote the following: “All this, I fear, is simply an indication of how inured the world has become to the obscene idea that Israeli lives are more important than Palestinian lives.” 

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