Monthly Archives: July 2015

Israel’s enemies already know they will lose

JERUSALEM POST by Yishai Fleisher July 20, 2015 If their goal to limit all of our strikes to a mere “proportional response” – we must hit them with overwhelming force which leaves no one guessing as to who is the … Continue reading

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AIPAC girds for rare high-noon showdown with White House

TIMES OF ISRAEL by Rebecca Shimoni Stoil July 21, 2015 Iran deal marks first open rift in more than 20 years over a president’s major foreign policy initiative. Precedents indicate the pro-Israel lobby has cause for concern It will be … Continue reading

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How Obama kneecapped the US Congress on Iran — again

NEW YORK POST by Rich Lowry July 20, 2015 If only President Obama were as hard-nosed and clever in undermining our adversaries as he is in kneecapping the US Congress, the country’s strategic position might be transformed. The Iran deal … Continue reading

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GOP blasts President Obama’s ‘capitulation’ to U.N. on Iran

POLITICO by Burgess Everett July 20, 2015 But there are scant signs the White House’s move to seek the organization’s blessing will cost it votes in Congress Influential Republicans and a handful of Democrats howled in protest Monday over President … Continue reading

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Trinity: 2015. The nuclear age began 70 years ago today

TABLET MAGAZINE by Warren Kozak July 16, 2015 One of history’s most important dividing lines was etched in a remote and desolate part of New Mexico exactly 70 years ago today, and the world knew nothing about it at the … Continue reading

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A year on, California soldier’s death in Gaza binds his US family to Israel

TIMES OF ISRAEL by Mitch Ginsberg July 20, 2015 Evie Steinberg, who came to the holy land for the first time to bury her son, Sgt. Max Steinberg, now ‘dreads going home’ One year ago, after midnight on July 20, … Continue reading

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Chuck Schumer’s profile in courage moment

JEWISH JOURNAL by Douglas J. Workman July 20, 2015 Dear Senator Schumer: I write to you in desperation.  Somehow I believe that the fate of the Iran Agreement will come down to you.  As the foremost defender of the State … Continue reading

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Israeli Opposition Leader: Iran Deal Will Bring Chaos to the Middle East

ATLANTIC MONTHLY by Jeffrey Goldberg July 16, 2015 Isaac Herzog, foreign-minister-in-waiting, believes Israel is endangered by the Vienna agreement Last December, when I interviewed the leader of Israel’s left-leaning Labor Party, Isaac “Bougie” Herzog, at the Brookings Institution’s Saban Forum, … Continue reading

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The ICC Channels the Queen of Hearts on Israel

COMMENTARY by Evelyn Gordon July 17, 2015 If the International Criminal Court ever had any pretensions of being a serious legal institution, they were effectively demolished by yesterday’s ruling overturning Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda’s decision not to investigate Israel’s botched raid on … Continue reading

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Obama’s awesome new race database even more awesome than you imagined

HOT AIR by Jazz Shaw July 19, 2015 We recently discussed a story that wasn’t particularly popular here (to be charitable) which dealt with a new White House plan to implement enforced neighborhood diversity in American towns and cities through … Continue reading

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