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Why no Arab government wants Gaza, the West Bank, or Palestinians

By Patricia Adams and Lawrence Solomon | Published by The Epoch Times While Israel may retain control for the foreseeable future, Israel wants no part of Gaza. Its government left Gaza in 2005, taking with it every Jew residing in Gaza and even every Jew buried there. And Israel isn’t alone. Egypt also wants no […]

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Did Hamas succeed too well?

By Lawrence Solomon | Published by Jewish News Syndicate If Iran’s goal in unleashing Hamas on Israel was scuttling the looming Saudi-Israeli peace deal, as is widely believed, it may have succeeded too well, raising the specter of an immediate backlash so severe as to threaten its grander, long-term plans for regional dominance and Israel’s […]

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ChatGPT will sap the Woke world, succor conservatism

Unintentionally, ChatGPT will transform society by shifting its governance away from woke progressivism and toward traditional liberalism and conservatism. By Patricia Adams and Lawrence Solomon | Published by The Epoch Times Commentary Unlike earlier waves of artificial intelligence (AI), where robots and other forms of automation eliminated blue-collar and other physical work, AI innovations such […]

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We need better regulation of medical mistakes

Strip the College of Physicians of the power to regulate physicians. By Lawrence Solomon | Published by the National Post, August 25, 2023 According to the National Safety Council of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, construction is America’s most dangerous industry. It is responsible for a thousand deaths a year. But research from scholars at […]

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Carnage in the Hospitals

By Patricia Adams and Lawrence Solomon | Published by The Epoch Times Health care, the most error-prone, deadliest industry in the world, may also be among the most poorly regulated. To lower the toll, health care’s self-serving regulatory system needs to be scrapped in favor of transparency that exposes harms, eschews cover-ups, and puts patients […]

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The US is losing Israel

By Lawrence Solomon | Published by Jewish News Syndicate The mantras that “the U.S.-Israel relationship is rock solid” and “the U.S. has Israel’s back”—so often proclaimed in the breach by both countries—may be wearing thin in Israel. With the U.S. courting Iran while pulling back from its dominant role in the Middle East, China entering […]

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Israel’s orthodox parties have that free-market religion

Religious political parties in Israel’s governing coalition have faith in free markets.

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The Druze or the Paris Agreement?

Does Israel have a greater responsibility to “the international community” than to its own Druze population?

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Poor forest management to blame for Canada’s wildfires, not climate change

By Patricia Adams and Lawrence Solomon, published by The Epoch Times Commentary As North America suffers from Canada’s out-of-control forest fires, the Canadian government shuns responsibility. Instead of acknowledging its failure to follow tried-and-true forest-management procedures, the government instead points the finger at climate change. “We’re seeing more and more of these fires because of […]

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The energy transition Ontario really needs is to nuclear

By Lawrence Solomon, published by Financial Post If Ontario wants to keep its lights on and its economy stable, it needs to abandon the fantasy that wind and solar power can make a meaningful contribution to its energy needs. In the absence of untapped hydroelectric sites, the provincial government’s determination to outlaw fossil fuels in […]