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May 23, 2024, 1:07 PM

Recognition of a Palestine state should be treated as nonsense

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - MAY 13: Members of the United Nations Security Council listen as Russian permanent Ambassador to the United Nations Vassily Nebenzia speaks during a meeting on the war in Gaza at the United Nations headquarters May 13, 2024 in New York City. The Security Council held a meeting on the ongoing war in Gaza days after the UN General Assembly passed a resolution with 143 yes votes, with nine countries voting no including the United States and Israel, and 25 countries abstaining, endorsing that Palestine become a full UN member and urging the Security Council to admit Palestine as a member. According to the Palestinian Ministry of Health, over 35,000 Palestinians have been killed and over 78,000 wounded in Israeli attacks on Gaza since the October 7 terror attacks by Hamas on Israel that resulted in the deaths of more than 1,160 people. (Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

Ireland, Spain, and Norway recognizing a Palestinian state changes nothing. It is performative nonsense. The international media should be reporting it as such. Headlines screaming that the European trio will recognize a Palestinian state make it look like something significant...

May 20, 2024, 11:02 AM

Jews and Israel have more support than supposed

Demonstrators during a pro-Israel march in the Copacabana neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on Sunday, Oct. 15, 2023. The US and its allies are ratcheting up efforts to prevent the war between Israel and Hamas from engulfing the wider region, acting on concerns that an invasion of the Gaza Strip by Israeli forces could prompt Iran to enter the conflict. Photographer: Dado Galdieri/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Israel may look isolated internationally, but the country and its people have more support than global news headlines suggest. It is another example of the international news media's entrenched anti-Israel bias. Hundreds of millions of people around the world support...

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Nachum Kaplan has 30 years international experience as a journalist, commentator, speaker, and C-suite media strategist to Fortune 500 companies. He has held senior positions and help set the strategic direction in some of the world's leading newsrooms, including Reuters and International Financing Review. He has worked in Australia, Indonesia, the UK, Singapore, and traveled extensively across the US, Europe, and Middle East, for his work. He holds a B.A. in Politics and Indonesian from Monash University. He writes about the nexus between media and politics in his Moral Clarity Newsletter at https://moralclaritynewsletter.substack.com/

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