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Netanyahu’s Sixth Act: How One Man Keeps the World Watching—and Waiting
ByDaveslocker 14 September 2025

The Man Who Refuses to Leave the Stage: Netanyahu’s Global Encore By Our Correspondent, still jet-lagged and morally fatigued Tel-Aviv—Look closely at any modern map and you’ll notice a curious phenomenon: borders shift, currencies collapse, even the climate renegotiates its terms, yet one constant remains—Benjamin Netanyahu, squinting into the klieg lights like a cat that…

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From Princeton to a Baghdad Basement: How Elizabeth Tsurkov Became a Bargaining Chip in the World’s Most Cynical Marketplace
ByDaveslocker 9 September 2025

Elizabeth Tsurkov and the Global Hostage Economy: A Graduate Student, a War, and the Price of Curiosity By Dave’s Locker Foreign Desk When Elizabeth Tsurkov, a Russian-Israeli doctoral candidate at Princeton, vanished in Baghdad last March, the world performed its now-customary shrug: another intellectual swallowed by the Levantine wood-chipper. Nine months later, the Islamic Resistance…

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