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  Zionism, Anti-Semitism, and Racialism  RON UNZ For nearly three weeks I’ve been suggesting with increasing forcefulness that the official figure of 1,400 Israeli deaths from the Hamas attack may have been considerably exaggerated. Here’s what I’d said  last Monday : The total number of Israeli deaths remains uncertain. The government has claimed around 1,400 fatalities, a figure universally reported across the entire global media, but nearly a month after the fighting ending, fewer than 1,100 names have been published, raising serious doubts about the reality of the larger total. Indeed, Blumenthal noted that when Israel’s UN Ambassador distributed horrifying images of the corpses of Israeli civilians killed by Hamas, many of them turned out to be the bodies of Hamas fighters killed by the Israelis. So it seems quite possible that several hundred dead Hamas militants were originally included in that 1,400 total, with the Israeli government being too embarrassed to admit...

  UNREAL Nikki Haley Debate Line: ‘It’s Not That Israel Needs America, America Needs Israel’ BEN BARTEE The trainwreck GOP debate the other night was mostly irrelevant — largely because the Big Guy, once again, who is dominating every other candidate on stage combined with a 40%+ lead, was not in attendance.   The mild standout was Vivek Ramaswamy, who correctly opened the proceedings with an impressive rhetorical assault on the GOP establishment, the corporate state media outfit hosting the theater production (NBC), and his hack rivals, the most distasteful of whom is Nikki Haley. This is how you make hay out of an otherwise stultified, arcane performance that is a presidential debate. Repeating donor talking points handed to them by advisors is a losing strategy, a performance that the establishment candidates are seemingly obliged to dramatize under threat of losing their sponsorships. And here is Ramaswamy breaking down Nikki Haley’s brazen, easily documented corruption, i...