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    Bezalel Smotrich

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    Politics
    Mitchell Plitnick / 18 Jun 2026

    Israel’s Settlement Goods Are Mislabelled — and Reaching Your Shelves

    The Global Echo Report

    Disguising contraband is nothing new. For as long as goods have crossed borders, smugglers have relied not only on deception but often on the complicity of corrupt officials.(...)

    Not Bezalel Smotrich. New York, 14 June.
    Politics
    Ari Paul / 16 Jun 2026

    Mamdani Turns Parade Controversy Into a Win

    Ruthless Cosmopolitan

    Memory is selective. Particularly when Middle Eastern politics is involved.(...)

    Politics
    Ari Paul / 23 Mar 2026

    Actually Existing Netanyahu

    Ruthless Cosmopolitan

    If the small country of Bhutan has a George Washington or a Giuseppe Garibaldi, it’s Ngawang Namgyal, later given the title Zhabdrung Rinpoche.(...)

    Politics
    Mitchell Plitnick / 12 Mar 2026

    End Times Strategy

    Israel, America and Iran

    In a recent television appearance, I was confronted by an anti-Muslim “expert” who insisted on framing Iranian politics in terms of “millennial, end times ideology”.(...)

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