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ISRAEL AT WAR
ISRAEL AT WAR
Civilians killed by Hamas lie covered in Sderot, Israel, on Saturday, Oct. 7, 2023. (Ohad Zwigenberg via AP Photo)
Three pieces and a podcast that tell the truth—plainly—about a catastrophic day.
By Bari Weiss
10.08.23 — International
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ISRAEL AT WAR

You are about to withstand a barrage of lies about the war that broke out today in Israel.

Some of those lies will be explicit. Some of them will be lies of omission. Others will be lies of obfuscation. Or lies of minimization. Lies told by people who are simply too afraid to look at such an ugly, barbarous reality. And lies told by people whose true bel…

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Bari Weiss
Bari Weiss is the founder and editor of The Free Press and host of the podcast Honestly. From 2017 to 2020 Weiss was an opinion writer and editor at The New York Times. Before that, she was an op-ed and book review editor at The Wall Street Journal and a senior editor at Tablet magazine.
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