Israel & Middle East
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AI Almost Started A War With China – And We Nearly Didn’t Catch It
For years, the nightmare scenario surrounding artificial intelligence and warfare has looked something like science fiction: autonomous weapons making their own decisions, computers selecting targets, machines eventually removing human beings from the process of deciding who lives and who dies. But we may have been…
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Israel Forgot God. Then Came The Yom Kippur War And October 7
For Israelis, October 7, 2023 has changed the way we remember October 6, 1973. The two dates are separated by exactly fifty years, but they are joined by more than coincidence. Both were Jewish holidays. Both began with a devastating surprise attack by genocidal enemies.…
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2027: The Perfect Storm Is Already Forming
Most Americans aren’t thinking about sulfuric acid, phosphate fertilizer, Saudi oil pipelines or water levels on major shipping routes when they walk through the grocery store. But perhaps they should be. A remarkable collection of problems is developing across the systems that produce and transport…
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The UN Wants The Keys To AI – What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
Artificial intelligence may become the most powerful information technology humanity has ever created. It will increasingly determine what people read, what children learn, how governments operate and, perhaps most importantly, what billions of people believe to be true. So there is a question just as…
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The Church Of England’s Collapse Is Happening In Plain Sight
Imagine trying to write a parody of the modern Church of England. Britain’s most senior Christian leader presents an award for “reconciliation and interfaith cooperation” to a Muslim cleric who once proposed honoring Osama bin Laden with the title “Sword of God.” Then imagine scheduling…
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The Israel Fault Line: Dividing Christians And Jews From Within
For many pro-Israel Christians, the numbers are difficult to understand. A new national survey of Jewish voters finds that 67% plan to vote for Democratic congressional candidates in November, compared with just 26% who plan to vote Republican. At the same time, 71% say they…
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Majority Of Israelis Fear October 7-Style Attack From Judea And Samaria
Seventy-seven percent of Israelis, including 86% of Jewish Israelis, believe a large-scale terrorist attack modeled on the October 7 Hamas massacre could originate from Judea and Samaria, according to new polling data released by the Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs (JCFA). The number…
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The Sounds Of The Temple Are Returning To Jerusalem
For nearly two thousand years, these were sounds that belonged to the Bible. The Temple was gone. The sacrifices had ceased. The priestly service ended. The silver trumpets associated with Israel’s ancient worship became artifacts of another age. But on Rosh Hashanah this year, something…
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The Palestinians’ Dead-End Choice: Fatah Or Hamas
The Palestinians remain trapped between two bad choices: the Fatah-dominated Palestinian Authority (PA) and the Iran-backed Hamas terrorist group. The Palestinians have tried both. The result has been corruption, authoritarianism, political repression, terrorism, violence, division and, ultimately, immense suffering for the Palestinian people.
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The AI Cold War Is Already Here
China’s reaction to a recent warning from Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei revealed how quickly the debate over artificial intelligence has become a struggle for global power. Amodei urged democratic nations to slow the development of the most dangerous frontier systems while preventing China from closing…
