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  • Will coronavirus Cause a Ceasefire between Israel and Gaza?

    By: Anna Ahronheim – Jerusalem Post; jpost.com All sides need each other in this fight, even sworn enemies. Israel and the Gaza Strip are once again at war. But this time the enemy isn’t in the form of rockets or airstrikes but rather an invisible enemy. One that has crept into every country across the world,…

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  • Amazon Bans Sale of Hitler’s ‘Mein Kampf’ and other Nazi Books

    By: Ron Kampeas – Jewish Telegraphic Agency; jta.org Amazon has banned the sale of most editions of Hitler’s “Mein Kampf” and other Nazi propaganda books following decades-long pleas by Holocaust education organizations and Jewish groups. Booksellers were informed in recent days that they would no longer be allowed to sell a number of Nazi-authored books…

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  • US State Department Changes Name of Eastern Jerusalem Palestinians in Annual Report

    By: Jackson Richman – Jewish News Syndicate; jns.org The official description of Palestinians residing in eastern Jerusalem is now “Arab residents” or “non-Israeli citizens,” instead of “Palestinian residents,” in the department’s annual global human-rights report. The U.S. State Department has changed its official description of Palestinians living in eastern Jerusalem from “Palestinian residents” to “Arab…

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  • Iran Extends Christian Convert’s Sentence 2 Years for ‘Evangelical Zionist Christianity’

    By: Samuel Smith – The Christian Post; christianpost.com 65-year-old Iranian Christian convert who was sentenced to three years in prison for “insulting Islamic sacred beliefs” in January has been sentenced to two more years in prison while nine other converts lost appeals of their five-year sentences. Article 18, a nonprofit Christian persecution watchdog group, reports that convert…

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  • Is the Coronavirus an End-time Biblical Plague?

    By: Michael Brown – The Christian Post; christianpost.com Does the Book of Revelation predict the coronavirus? Is it one of the prophesied, end-time plagues? If so, does that mean that this is just a harbinger of much worse things to come? There is no denying the seriousness of the virus. As Bill Gates noted in the New England…

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  • Why Iran Is Such a Coronavirus Threat

    By: Amir A. Afkhami – Politico; politico.com For years, Tehran was remarkably good at fighting epidemics. This time, a bungling and an isolated regime is worsening global risk. The U.S. could actually help. Since Iran announced its first cases of the novel coronavirus more than two weeks ago, a growing number of analysts and physicians…

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