Holly Conlon, J Street · [email protected]

November 16, 2025 at 4:30 PM

Roy Cooper

J Street Exciting news, friends… J Street just endorsed the top Senate challenger for 2026: former North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper! With Senator Tillis retiring, this race is already rated a hotly-contested toss-up, and Governor Cooper is just the candidate we need to flip…

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  J Street Communications · [email protected]

November 14, 2025 at 8:26 PM

Weekly Recap 📥

 This week: Fighting West Bank Setter Violence ⚠️ |The Path Forward for Democrats 🔵| Who Speaks for You 📢| The Way Forward on Syria and Lebanon 🛣️ | Save Your Seat at the J Street 2026 Convention 🎟️ | This Week’s Must-Reads/Listens 📖 | Our Pro-Democracy To-Do List 🗳️ | And much more. T…

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  Lily Adelstein, J Street · [email protected]

November 14, 2025 at 8:22 PM

Take Action: The People of Gaza Need Medical Care

  Add Your Voice: Sign our petition demanding medical treatment for the people of Gaza ✍️ Friends, The ceasefire brought some much-needed relief to Gazans, but the scale of the catastrophe is staggering, and civilians in Gaza are continuing to pay the price. The UN reports t…

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  Gabi Meisel, J Street · [email protected]

November 13, 2025 at 3:37 PM

[Reminder] Timely Conversation with Jeremy Ben-Ami and Dahlia Scheindlin

  Dear Friends, Our conversation with J Street President Jeremy Ben-Ami and Dahlia Scheindlin, a renowned Israeli public opinion expert, is coming up this Sunday, November 16 from 6:30-8:30pm at Temple Sinai in DC. Register here >> Amid the ceasefire and the return of hostages, …

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  Jeremy Ben-Ami, J Street · [email protected]

November 12, 2025 at 4:47 PM

Who Speaks for You?

 Over a decade ago, I wrote that legacy institutions like AIPAC, the ADL and others were veering off course… Friends, Well over a decade ago, I wrote that the large, legacy institutions of American Jewish life – AIPAC, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and others – were veering off cours…

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  Jess Blum, J Street · [email protected]

November 9, 2025 at 4:03 PM

[SIGNATURE PENDING] ⚠️ Another Settler Violence Update ⚠️

  ✍️Sign on to demand sanctions against violent settlers in the West Bank!✍️ Friend, We’re seeing more terrifying scenes from the West Bank olive harvest. As Palestinian families were harvesting olives – joined by Jewish and Arab Israeli peace advocates and a group of Americ…

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  J Street Communications · [email protected]

November 7, 2025 at 9:17 PM

Weekly Recap 📥

 This week: A Victory for Democracy, A Blow For Trump 🏆 | Democrats Take on the Netanyahu Government 📣 | Remembering Rabin 🕯️ | Hamas and Netanyahu Are Working Together Again ⚠️ | 📝 This Week from the Policy Center 📝 | This Week’s Must-Reads/Listens 📖 | Our Pro-Democracy To-Do List 🗳️ | And much mor…

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  Jess Blum, J Street · [email protected]

November 7, 2025 at 6:52 PM

⚠️ Another Settler Violence Update ⚠️

  ✍️Sign on to demand sanctions against violent settlers in the West Bank!✍️ Friend, We’re seeing more terrifying scenes from the West Bank olive harvest. As Palestinian families were harvesting olives – joined by Jewish and Arab Israeli peace advocates and a group of Americ…

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  Avraham Spraragen, J Street Policy Center · [email protected]

November 7, 2025 at 3:58 PM

[Today] Briefing: The Future of Syria and Lebanon

 🔵 Starting soon at 12pm Eastern | 9am Pacific Dear Friends, On Monday, Syria’s new president, Ahmed al-Sharaa, will walk into the White House – marking the start of a new chapter for US-Syria relations.  Today at 12pm Eastern / 9am Pacific, the J Street Policy Center is hosting a brief…

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  Ilan Goldenberg, J Street · [email protected]

November 6, 2025 at 10:30 PM

Bibi is Helping Hamas. Again.

  We’re proud to be powered by folks like you, never right-wing megadonors. Like many advocacy groups, J Street relies on End-of-Year donations for nearly half of our annual grassroots fundraising. Your support makes our important work possible – can we count on you to chip in? …

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  Emily Reeves Keller, J Street · [email protected]

November 6, 2025 at 6:25 PM

[REGISTER] Join J Street next March

  Dear Friends, This week’s elections put two issues front and center. In California, the most populous state in the country, people voted on measures to preserve our democracy. In New York City, the city with more Jews than anywhere else in the nation, voters went to the ballot box wit…

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  Ilan Goldenberg, J Street Policy Center · [email protected]

November 5, 2025 at 8:53 PM

Briefing: Sharaa’s White House Visit and the Future of Syria and Lebanon

  Friend, This Monday will see a truly historic White House meeting. After almost 14 years of barrel bombs, mass devastation and ISIS takeovers, the Syrian civil war is over, Assad is gone and Syria’s new president – Ahmed al-Sharaa – will walk into the Oval Office. Behind the photo-op …

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  Jeremy Ben-Ami, J Street · [email protected]

November 4, 2025 at 6:05 PM

Enough Blood and Tears

  Friends,  Thirty years ago today, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin stepped off a stage in Tel Aviv after a historic peace rally.  In his jacket pocket were the lyrics to Shir LaShalom – “A Song for Peace” – folded neatly.  Only weeks earlier, he had signed the second Oslo agreemen…

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  Eliza Schloss, J Street · [email protected]

November 4, 2025 at 3:47 PM

🔵 [Today] What Rabin’s Legacy Demands of Us

 Join us at 2pm Eastern | 11am Pacific Dear Friends, Thirty years ago today, gunfire in Tel Aviv shattered one of Israel’s greatest hopes for peace – and changed history forever. At 2pm Eastern / 11am Pacific, I hope you’ll join our community for a powerful J Street conversation marking…

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  Tamar Ariel, J Street · [email protected]

November 3, 2025 at 6:33 PM

Two Ways to Honor Yitzhak Rabin’s Legacy

 Tomorrow: Get involved in the DC area and join J Street’s larger community Dear friends, Thirty years ago, the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin shocked Israel and the world – a devastating moment that marked the loss of a leader who dared to believe that peace with the Pal…

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  Rep. Jamie Raskin via J Street · [email protected]

November 3, 2025 at 5:37 PM

This is our fight 💪

 Democracy is our project Dear Friend, Last month, I joined millions of Americans, including many from the J Street community, in perhaps the largest pro-democracy protest America has ever seen.  Make no mistake: We’re in the throes of a titanic battle to defend strong democracy, freedo…

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  J Street Communications · [email protected]

October 31, 2025 at 7:02 PM

Weekly Recap 📥

 This week: Keeping the Ceasefire Alive 🕊️ | Saving a Palestinian Village from Demolition ⚠️ | Victory at the World Zionist Congress 🇮🇱 | This Week from the Policy Center 📝| This Week’s Must-Reads/Listens 📖 | Our Pro-Democracy To-Do List 🗳️ | And much more. This week: Keeping the Cease…

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  Jeremy Ben-Ami, J Street · [email protected]

October 30, 2025 at 10:02 PM

Our Victory Yesterday in Jerusalem

 We banned support for Gaza settlements 💪 Friends, I’m writing to you from Jerusalem, where I’ve just come from the World Zionist Congress where I served as a delegate representing the pro-democracy, pro-peace Hatikvah slate. With a say in allocating billions of dollars and in managing …

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  Lexi Goldwyn, J Street · [email protected]

October 30, 2025 at 5:44 PM

[Petition] Don’t demolish this Palestinian village

 I was just in Umm al-Khair. What I saw broke my heart. Friends, I was in Umm al-Khair days ago. It’s a Palestinian village in the South Hebron Hills – one many in our J Street community know so well. We’ve brought Members of Congress and community leaders there to meet families and see…

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  Adina Vogel Ayalon, J Street · [email protected]

October 27, 2025 at 4:34 PM

[SIGN ON] Stop The Sickening Settler Violence

 ⚠️ Distressing Content Warning ⚠️ Friends, It’s olive harvest season in the West Bank. Horrifically, violent settlers are also treating it as open season on their Palestinian neighbors. Sickening footage has emerged: A masked Israeli settler beating a woman motionless. A mob descendi…

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  J Street Communications · [email protected]

October 24, 2025 at 8:50 PM

Weekly Recap 📥

 This week: Democrats and Republicans Unite Against Annexation 🇺🇸 | This week’s analysis on Word on the Street 🚧 | J Street’s Policy Center on Implementing the Gaza Ceasefire 📝 | Standing up to Bigotry in Politics 🛑 | We Were Strangers Too 🌎 | This Week’s Must-Reads/Listens 📖 | Our Pro-Democracy To-…

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  J Street Advocacy · [email protected]

October 22, 2025 at 7:20 PM

[Signature Needed] No Excuses. Surge Aid Now.

  Friend,  Right now, a draft letter is circulating in Congress addressed to Secretary of State Marco Rubio, pressing the State Department to maintain a strong focus on humanitarian aid. Friend: I’m writing because we don’t yet have your name on our humanitarian aid petition in support …

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  Gabi Meisel, J Street · [email protected]

October 22, 2025 at 6:02 PM

[Invite] Timely Conversation with Jeremy Ben-Ami and Dahlia Scheindlin

  Dear Friend, As hostages return home and Palestinian families begin to rebuild amid the ruins, a fragile peace has taken hold – one that brings both relief and profound uncertainty. There is immense work ahead to turn this moment into something lasting. Please join us on Sunday, Novem…

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  Lily Adelstein, J Street · [email protected]

October 21, 2025 at 7:16 PM

[Signature Needed] No Excuses. Surge Aid Now.

  Friends, Every man, woman and child in Gaza is dependent on humanitarian aid to survive right now – and despite the ceasefire, it’s still going to take months of persistent effort to get the humanitarian situation in Gaza to a point that anyone could deem “acceptable.” Toddlers are …

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  Sam Berkman, J Street · [email protected]

October 21, 2025 at 2:24 PM

[Today] Welcoming the Stranger with HIAS

 🔵 At 1pm Eastern / 10am Pacific: What to do if we see ICE targeting our neighbors – and how we show up together Dear Friends, Today, I’ll be joined by Naomi Steinberg, Vice President of Policy and Advocacy at HIAS, for a crucial conversation on how we turn the energy from No Kings this…

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  Ilan Goldenberg, J Street · [email protected]

October 20, 2025 at 8:33 PM

An Insider’s View on “Day After” Planning in Gaza

 Wednesday: US policy advisor Samantha Sutton joins Word on the Street Friend, When I was working in the White House, we started planning for the “day after” in Gaza just a week after October 7, 2023 – running through multiple scenarios to replace Hamas, weighing numerous outcomes of po…

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  Sam Berkman, J Street · [email protected]

October 19, 2025 at 3:00 PM

[Invite] Welcoming the Stranger: Putting our Values to Work

 🔵 A conversation with our HIAS allies Friends, Some of the scenes across the country – emerging on social media and some even promoted actively by this White House – are shocking. Masked ICE agents dragging people off the street. Military-style raids on apartment buildings. Families to…

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  J Street Communications · [email protected]

October 17, 2025 at 9:12 PM

Weekly Recap 📥

 This week: Home at Last🎗️| Join Nationwide No Kings Rallies This Saturday 👑 | Building a Movement Grounded in Democracy🎙 | What Comes Next❓| Fighting Back Against Project Esther 📣 |The End of “Managing the Conflict” 🚧 | Reserve Your J Street 2026 Convention Ticket 🎟️ | This Week’s Must-Reads/Listen…

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  Gal Peleg, J Street · [email protected]

October 17, 2025 at 7:01 PM

[TOMORROW] Join J Street at #NoKings Rallies Across the Country!

  Hi There,  Tomorrow, folks across the country will take to the streets to say America has #NoKings. Trump and his MAGA movement are targeting immigrants, detaining people without warrants and rigging electoral playing fields while draining funds from our education and healthcare syste…

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  Ilan Goldenberg, J Street · [email protected]

October 17, 2025 at 2:30 PM

[Signature Pending] This War Ends Here

  We don’t yet have your name on our “No Return to The Gaza War” petition. Click here to join our campaign » Friend, The ceasefire is holding – but we aren’t out of the woods yet. In Israel, Netanyahu keeps threatening to go back to war. His government is still using humanit…

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  Adina Vogel Ayalon, J Street · [email protected]

October 15, 2025 at 4:06 PM

No Return to War in Gaza [PETITION]

  Friends, It took far too long – and far too many lives – to reach this ceasefire. Now comes the real test: Keeping it. The parties to the agreement signed in Egypt yesterday must move fast to meet basic human needs, disarm Hamas, rebuild Gaza and create enough stability for further…

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  Eliza Schloss, J Street · [email protected]

October 14, 2025 at 10:01 PM

If you watch something today, let it be this

 Israelis and Palestinians react to two years of horror and relief at last Friends, Just after the announcement of the ceasefire last week – as hostages were finally set to come home, the skies above Gaza were quieting and families on both sides stood on the verge of their first sighs o…

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  Jeremy Ben-Ami, J Street · [email protected]

October 13, 2025 at 6:32 PM

Finally, the day after…

 I feel like I can exhale. Friends, I feel like I can finally exhale. I’m on text chains filled with joy at the images of twenty hostages – whose stories we’ve come to know so personally – all of whom are now home at last. The emotion is raw and overwhelming. In Gaza, for the first time…

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  J Street Communications · [email protected]

October 10, 2025 at 8:35 PM

Weekly Recap 📥

 This week: The Moment We’ve All Been Working For 🕊️ | Two years since October 7 🕯️ | The Promise and Peril of Trump’s Gaza Deal 📄 | Join Nationwide No Kings Rallies Next Saturday 👑 | A Word About Christian Nationalism with Michelle Goldberg 🎤 | Reserve Your J Street 2026 Convention Ticket 🎟️ | This…

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  Ilan Goldenberg, J Street · [email protected]

October 9, 2025 at 8:37 PM

This war must be the last

 Today is a hopeful day. I can’t help but think about how it should have happened sooner. Dear friends, After two years of unfathomable horror, the sounds of bombs and gunfire may finally give way to pained relief – and celebration by both Israelis and Palestinians. Many of us are figur…

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  Adina Vogel Ayalon, J Street · [email protected]

October 9, 2025 at 4:02 PM

[🚨Today] Emergency Briefing: An End to the War

 Hostage negotiator Gershon Baskin joins us at 4pm Eastern. And other can’t-miss calls planned for you today and tomorrow … Friends, If you’re anything like me, you may find yourself asking the same question: Is this really happening? After two devastating years of war, Israel and Hamas…

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  Ilan Goldenberg, J Street · [email protected]

October 8, 2025 at 6:53 PM

⏰ [Tomorrow] Remembering the Victims, Fighting for the Hostages

 Register to join us Thursday at 1pm Eastern Dear Friends, Two years after October 7, I know so many of us are still grieving and trying to make sense of all that’s been lost. Tomorrow, Thursday, October 9 at 1pm Eastern / 10am Pacific, I’ll be hosting a conversation that feels especial…

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  Adina Vogel Ayalon, J Street · [email protected]

October 6, 2025 at 7:21 PM

Two Years Later, I Still Carry the Pain of That Day

  Dear friends, As we begin the Sukkot holiday this evening, and prepare to mark the anniversary of October 7 tomorrow, I am reminded of the calm that preceded that dreadful day. How unexpected it was. How quickly the joy and peace of the holiday turned to horror. I tried to make sens…

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  Sam Berkman, J Street · [email protected]

October 5, 2025 at 3:01 PM

🔵 [Invite] Two Years After October 7

 Two calls about Israeli and Palestinian suffering and their shared future Friends, How do you possibly explain two years of suffering and anguish? Two years for hostage families, waiting in torment for news of their loved ones. Two years of trauma and grief for all Israelis, especially…

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  J Street Communications · [email protected]

October 3, 2025 at 8:43 PM

Weekly Recap 📥

 Winds of Change in the Democratic Party ⬅️ | A Horrifying Terror Attack on Yom Kippur 🕯️ | The Promise and Peril of Trump’s Gaza Deal 📄 | No Kings, No Silence 👑 | J Street Deeply Disturbed by FBI Director Cutting Ties With ADL ⚠️ | Drumbeat Against Annexation 🚧 | This is a Time of Jewish Reckoning …

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  Jeremy Ben-Ami, J Street · [email protected]

October 3, 2025 at 5:28 PM

Did you see the New York Times this morning?

 From 2009 to 2025: The times – and the Times’ coverage of J Street – have changed. Friend, Seventeen years ago, we launched J Street to change the definition of what it means to be pro-Israel. In 2009, the New York Times profiled our new organization, and I was quoted saying: “We’re tr…

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  J Street · [email protected]

October 1, 2025 at 7:30 PM

G'mar Chatimah Tovah

  SUPPORT OUR MISSION » © 2025 J Street | www.jstreet.org | [email protected] J Street is the political home for pro-Israel, pro-peace, pro-democracy Americans who want Israel to be secure, democratic and the national home of the Jewish people…

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  Gal Peleg, J Street · [email protected]

October 1, 2025 at 4:01 PM

Join J Street at "No Kings" Rallies Across the Country!

  Dear Friends, Folks across the country will soon take to the streets once again to say, “No Kings.”  Trump and his MAGA movement are using our tax dollars to line their own pockets and pursue deadly, anti-democratic power grabs. They're targeting immigrants and detaining people withou…

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  Ilan Goldenberg, J Street · [email protected]

September 30, 2025 at 5:56 PM

The Promise and Peril of This Moment

  Friends, Yesterday, President Trump unveiled a plan to finally end the war in Gaza, bring the hostages home and lay the foundations for lasting peace.  This is a moment of real promise – and tremendous peril. First, the promise: This plan reflects principles long championed by the int…

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  Adina Vogel Ayalon, J Street · [email protected]

September 29, 2025 at 4:28 PM

🚨 [Today] Rapid Response Briefing on Trump + Netanyahu’s Meeting

 Is this in fact a turning point? Join us today to discuss. Friends, Today’s meeting between Trump and Netanyahu at the White House could mark a turning point – the question is whether the US President finally has the strength needed to push through a deal.  With hostages languishing a…

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  Jeremy Ben-Ami, J Street · [email protected]

September 28, 2025 at 8:02 PM

The sound of silence breaking

  Friends,In recent months, I’ve written often about silence - the unsettling absence of outspoken leadership in Jewish America, the Democratic Party, or the Israeli opposition – in the face of the all-out assault on democracy in the U.S. and Israel. This week, I write about something d…

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  J Street Communications · [email protected]

September 26, 2025 at 8:38 PM

Weekly Recap 📥

  As the World Meets in New York, Gaza Pulls Focus 🗽 | The Fallout of Netanyahu’s UN Speech 🎙️| This Week in Congress… 🏛️ | Moral Clarity in the Days of Awe 🕯️ | Jeremy Joins BoomerLennials Podcast 🎧| Rabbis Across the Country Speak Out ✡️ | This Week’s Must-Reads/Listens 📖 | Our Pro-Democracy To-Do…

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  Emily Reeves Keller, J Street · [email protected]

September 26, 2025 at 4:28 PM

Register Now – Early Bird Ends Oct 1

  Dear Friends, As a new year begins, we’ve been reflecting on where we’ve been – but more importantly, we’re looking ahead to take bold steps toward where we need to go. This is a time to recommit to our values, our community and the future we want to build together. It’s in this spirit…

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  Yehuda Cohen (via JStreet) · [email protected]

September 26, 2025 at 1:43 PM

My Son is Held Hostage. Here’s What I’ll Be Thinking About During Netanyahu’s UN Speech

  Friends, Prime Minister Netanyahu is taking the stage at the United Nations in New York this morning. My son, meanwhile, will be spending his 720th day in Hamas captivity, fighting alongside nineteen other living hostages to stay alive until their release. I do not know what Netanyahu…

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  Jeremy Ben-Ami, J Street · [email protected]

September 25, 2025 at 8:27 PM

What Netanyahu won’t tell you at the UN tomorrow

  Friends, Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wants the world to believe Israel stands alone – a “Super Sparta” besieged by enemies and abandoned by allies. It’s a story that keeps him in power as Israel’s sole defender while he drives an endless war of devastation in Gaza. B…

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