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If you're going to call yourself an anti-Zionist, you need to own the history of

anti-Zionism. But that requires education.

We teach Nazi anti-Semitism really well. We do not teach the history of the Soviet persecutions

of Jews. We don't teach the history of Islamist persecutions of Jews. Are we surprised then

that our kids don't know it and are willing to align with this stuff?

It's 9.30 a.m. on Wednesday, January 28th here in New York City, it's 4.30 p.m. in Israel as the body of the last hostage from

Gaza, Ron Gvili, arrives in his Negev hometown of Meitar for burial. After 843 days, 12 hours,

and six minutes, the clock at Hostages Square on Monday went dark with Ron Gvili's return.

In a eulogy to his son today, Izikvili, the father of Ron Gvili, said, and I quote,

when we opened the coffin and touched you for the first time in two and a half years, it was

completely intact. Itzikvili said that IDF units

dug up 250 graves in the Gaza City Cemetery where his son's body was buried in their quest

to find him, and that the number 250 is the numerical value of his son's name, Ron, in Hebrew letters.

In a wide-ranging interview Tuesday evening, following the return of the final slain hostage,

Ron Gvili, Prime Minister Netanyahu said that Israel will not allow Gaza's reconstruction

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