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- “America's team of real estate developers and financiers may beat Iran's diplomats at the bargaining table”
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- Memo to Carter and Obama: "Hidden in the new National Security Strategy is a reversal of decades of U.S. foreign policy"
- Elan Carr: “Administration’s equating of anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism “certainly breaks new ground””
- UN chief 'shocked and disturbed' by video of car sex act in Israel
- "Some Democrats wanted Biden to undo the embassy move, simply because Trump had done it"
- “The Arab Case for Israel is the book that I would recommend above all others for anyone who sincerely wants to understand the entrenched conflict between Jews and Arabs in Israel”
- Palestinian frustration isn't that they don't have a state. Rather it's that they can't destroy Israel
Monthly Archives: March 2020
“Blue and White leader says he has ‘not received a serious reply’ from the PM on offer to start negotiations to form emergency coalition amid pandemic”
TIMES OF ISRAEL Gantz: Unity government needed now, I’m waiting for Netanyahu to okay talks by Raoul Wootliff March 13, 2020 …On Thursday evening, Netanyahu reached out to his political rivals to form an emergency government to fight the spread … Continue reading
Posted in Israel & Middle East, Politics
Tagged Benjamin Netanyahu, Benny Gantz, coronavirus
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Three main parties are leading the Hamas-Israel mediation efforts: Egypt, Qatar and the UN
THE HILL Palestinian Islamists disrupt an attempted truce in Gaza by Eitan Dangot March 11, 2020 While Israel attempted to achieve quiet in the lead-up to the March 2 elections, Hamas, with a strategic interest in pausing the fighting, also … Continue reading
Posted in Islam, Israel & Middle East, Politics
Tagged Egypt, Gaza, Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Qatar, United Nations
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“Founded in 1869, The Standard Club was long a who’s who of Chicago Jewish business leaders”
CHICAGO TRIBUNE The Standard Club, long the social nexus for Chicago’s Jewish leaders, is closing May 1 amid financial struggles by Robert Channick March 5, 2020 For more than 150 years, The Standard Club has been the social nexus for … Continue reading
“When Israel first started pulling up the drawbridges, it was taking the most extreme measures in the West to contain COVID-19”
JERUSALEM POST Is Israel at the forefront of coronavirus measures? by Lahav Harkov March 13, 2020 …After the government announced it was stopping flights from China, there was talk about adverse diplomatic effects. China is very sensitive to its image … Continue reading
“With 500 dead, #Iran to empty the streets, check all 80 million people for virus”
NATIONAL REVIEW Will Iran’s Regime Survive Coronavirus? by Ilan Berman March 12, 2020 Soaring inflation. Deepening domestic discontent. An expanding environmental crisis. Even before the outbreak of the novel coronavirus in recent weeks, the Iranian regime was struggling under the … Continue reading
This just in from the Social Science Research Network: When Starbucks announced that people were welcome to loiter, their paying customers didn’t really appreciate it
POWERLINE Starbucks Learns the Cost of Virtue-Signaling by Steven Hayward March 9, 2020 …In May 2018, in response to protests, Starbucks changed its policies nationwide to allow anybody to sit in their stores and use the bathroom without making a … Continue reading
The tyranny of the majority
THE AMERICAN INTEREST Political Correctness Threatens American Higher Education by Professor Michael Mandelbaum February 28, 2020 …Besides violating the spirit (and perhaps in some cases the letter) of the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, the suppression … Continue reading
In case you don’t have enough data on coronavirus, here’s a minute-by-minute dashboard to fixate on
NO CAMELS Top Israeli doctors guide those under Coronavirus quarantine on diet, health–and staying sane by Simona Shemer March 11, 2020 Dr. Ishay Lev, a Jerusalem-based family physician with more than 15 years of experience, recently gave an interactive online … Continue reading
Squad member Rashida Tlaib speaks at conference with keychain swag calling “for the destruction of Israel and its replacement with Palestine”
TIMES OF ISRAEL Rashida Tlaib Speaks at Event Promoting the Destruction of Israel by Daniel Swindell March 8, 2020 Last Saturday, Rashida Tlaib spoke in St. Louis for American Muslims for Palestine. I live in Missouri, so I protested her … Continue reading
Posted in Islam, Israel & Middle East, Jewish, Politics
Tagged American Muslims for Palestine, Bernie Sanders, Jerusalem, Palestine, Rashida Tlaib
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