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Sheldon Adelson’s ‘Bomb Empty Iranian Desert’ Comment

Double Standards

At a recent panel, Adelson said an atomic bomb should be detonated in an empty Iranian desert as a warning to the regime. Shmuley Boteach says the media responses to that comment betray double standards on Israel.

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On Tuesday I organized an event in New York City at Yeshiva University that addressed the two existential threats confronting the Jewish people worldwide: a nuclear Iran in the Middle East and assimilation in the West.

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