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- Pensacola Saudi gunman's Twitter account "condemned US support for Israel and included a quote from Al-Qaeda’s deceased leader, the Saudi Osama bin Laden"
- Israel to no longer bar travelers from US and UK
- CBS, NBC Bash Netanyahu on Election Night; ‘Could Destroy’ Chances for Peace with Obama, Palestinians
- An otherwise positive story from #NYT about Israel's battle against coronavirus "marred by its opening" which has now been changed online
- 49 US Republican senators say they will not back new #Iran nuclear deal. This Isn’t #Obama’s Iran Deal. It’s Much, Much Worse.
- Harold Rhode: Critical thinking on Islamic Law was shut down by Sunni leaders 1000 years ago. This meant the end of progress, situation continues to this day
- “Most radical leftists believe this noxious legacy foretells our future and will continue unabated unless American politics is fundamentally overturned”
- As small but growing numbers of Haredi men enlist in the Israeli military, attitudes in their strictly observant communities start to shift
Monthly Archives: December 2020
“Even if a peace agreement is not officially announced, relations between Israel and Saudi Arabia are at their peak, especially given the Iranian threat and concerns over other radical Islamic elements in the region”
JNS The Saudi dilemma by Shahar Klaiman December 20, 2020 The peace deal with Morocco is the fourth accord between Israel and an Arab state to sideline the Palestinian issue. While the leaders of Abu Dhabi, Manama and Khartoum had … Continue reading
Posted in Israel & Middle East, Politics
Tagged Bahrain, Joe Biden, Saudi Arabia, UAE
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i24 features Lawfare’s Brooke Goldstein on Belgium kashrut ruling
Posted in Islam, Israel & Middle East, Jewish, Politics
Tagged Belgium, Brooke Goldstein, Kashrut, lawfare
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John le Carré remains a product of his time and an enigma. Was he on the side of the Jewish people — or their enemies?
JNS The “antisemitism” of John le Carré by Melanie Phillips December 18, 2020 John le Carré, the acclaimed grandmaster of the spy novel who died last weekend at the age of 89, was dogged for years by allegations of antisemitism. … Continue reading
“A Bitter James Baker, Who Failed on the Western Sahara, Urges Biden To Rescind the Deal”
NEW YORK SUN Moroccan Envoy Marks Hanukkah With Israel by Benny Avni December 18, 2020 As the Moroccan ambassador to the United Nations, Omar Hilale, lit candles Thursday alongside his Israeli counterpart, Gilad Erdan, some in Washington tsk-tsk’d about the … Continue reading
Posted in Islam, Israel & Middle East, Politics
Tagged Eugene Kontorovich, James Baker, Morocco, Western Sahara
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“California voters overwhelmingly rejected Proposition 16, which would have allowed the State to openly discriminate in favor of the “aggrieved” groups liberals pander to — which of course works to the detriment of people that are more qualified”
SPECTATOR The Man Who Convinced California Voters to Reject Racial Quotas by Pat Nolan December 17, 2020 As Biden has frantically juggled potential nominees to placate each of the plethora of aggrieved special-interest groups that make up the modern Democratic … Continue reading
“It’s a small shot for a person and a huge step toward the health of us all”
JERUSALEM POST Netanyahu, Edelstein kick off Israel’s COVID-19 vaccination campaign by Maayan Jaffe-Hoffman December 19, 2020 Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Health Minister Yuli Edelstein received the first doses of the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine in Israel at an event that … Continue reading
“The Atlanta clergyman often sounds more like a transnational leftist than an American politician”
WALL STREET JOURNAL What Raphael Warnock Believes About Israel by Barton Swaim December 16, 2020 The Middle East poses a problem for the Democrats. Theirs was traditionally the pro-Israel party and still commands the support of a substantial majority of … Continue reading
Paris: “3 days of terror, many victims, 5 years of waiting, 4 months of trial … suffering, forgetting, other attacks, more deaths, and then, a feeling after being heard: justice, finally!”
ALGEMEINER French Court Convicts 14 Accomplices of Islamist Terrorists Behind 2015 Massacres at Magazine, Kosher Market in Paris by Ben Cohen December 16, 2020 The harrowing trial of 14 accomplices in the January 2015 Islamist terror attacks in Paris came … Continue reading
Posted in Islam, Jewish, Politics
Tagged Charlie Hebdo, France, Islamic terror, Paris
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“Many American Jews have simply stopped caring about both Israel and Judaism, a point that has not escaped the notice of the American elites. If Jews stop caring about themselves, nobody else will”
BEGIN SADAT CENTER FOR STRATEGIC STUDIES US Election 2020: Most American Jews Don’t Care About Israel By Lev Stesin December 18, 2020 Post-US election number-crunching has revealed that somewhere between 70% and 75% of American Jews voted for Joe Biden … Continue reading
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Whatever EU’s Court of Justice claims, a clear decision was made today: “Jewish rights are now ranked behind animal rights and hunting”
TIMES OF ISRAEL The moment the Jew became a second-class citizen in Europe again by Adam Brodsky December 17, 2020 As director of public affairs at the European Jewish Association, I had our press release on the European Court ruling … Continue reading