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- “At least we now know Josh Shapiro is not a double agent for Israel. He is just a double-crosser”
- Segal: "If Iran maintains the ceasefire while Israel continues to strike Lebanon, then it is a sign that the terror proxy has been thrown to the wolves"
- "While the cabinet has kept the decision low-profile, the scale of the approval, jumping by 34 outposts at once, represents an unprecedented acceleration of settlement activity in the region"
- In failing to stop the Islamic State, U.S. ignores the lessons of Auschwitz
- "The leaders of the two countries said Russia and the United States are working together to ensure Israel's security."
- FDR manipulated Rabbi Stephen Wise to "keep the Jews quiet"
- "Two sources told JI the president pushed back on Netanyahu’s claims about the prudence of Israel’s proposal to end U.S. military assistance over the next decade"
- Cabinet okays controversial ‘Jewish state’ bill
Category Archives: Israel & Middle East
Before the 1967 Six Day War, the valley was a no man’s land and used mostly as a garbage dump
VIN NEWS Longest Suspension Bridge In Israel, Over Valley Of Hinom To Mt. Zion, Inaugurated Sunday Yehuda Dov July 30, 2023 The longest suspension bridge in Israel will be inaugurated on Sunday, connecting Jerusalem’s Mount Zion to the Valley of … Continue reading
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Biden is trying to make it appear that a normalization deal will happen if the Jewish state pays for it in concessions to the Palestinians. Netanyahu should see it as a trap, not a favor.
JNS Is a US-Saudi-Israel deal really in the works? Jonathan Tobin August 2, 2023 According to New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman, President Joe Biden is trying to do Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a big favor. That would involve the … Continue reading
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Tagged Benjamin Netanyahu, Joe Biden, Saudi Arabia
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“The Israeli government must give up on any further judicial reforms”
JNS ‘Dai,’ enough, stop it, let it go Benjamin Kerstein July 30, 2023 The word dai, best known from the dayenu of the Passover service, has a simple and assertive meaning in modern Hebrew: Enough, stop it, let it go. … Continue reading
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Amazon Labor Union protest against Amazon doing business with Israel puts it out of step with the nation’s largest labor unions, which oppose the BDS movement
ALGEMEINER Amazon Labor Union Alongside Anti-Zionist Activist Linda Sarsour Accuses Israel of ‘Apartheid’ Andrew Bernard July 28, 2023 The Amazon Labor Union, which represents more than 8,000 employees at the tech behemoth, took part in a protest on Wednesday accusing … Continue reading
Israel must show that it treats Palestinians who hold a US passport the same as it treats all US citizens
ISRAEL HAYOM (by agreement with JNS) Over 2000 Palestinian Americans enter country so far under visa waiver trial Reuters and ILH Staff August 2, 2023 More than 2,000 Palestinian Americans have traveled into or through Israel since it eased conditions … Continue reading
The common policy of the last three administrations tacitly assumes that the costs to the United States, to the Middle East, and to the world of a nuclear-armed Iran, while certainly unwelcome, would be manageable
THE JERUSALEM STRATEGIC TRIBUNE The United States, Iran, and the Lessons of the Last War Michael Mandelbaum July 2023 …The present policy rests on the conviction that confronting Iran with the threat of war would likely lead to war, and … Continue reading
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, fresh from passing the first of his proposed judicial reforms, will next tackle an even more contentious proposal: democratizing the process through which judges are selected.
BREITBART Israel’s Next Judicial Reform: Democratize Selection of Judges Joel Pollak July 26, 2023 Currently, judges are chosen by a committee that includes judges, members of the Israeli bar association, and a number of members of the parliament, or Knesset. … Continue reading
Judicial reform facts you’ll never hear amid pearl-clutching over the “death of Israeli democracy” — this is all about power
CAMERA BLOG David Remnick’s Ignorance Knows No Bounds Alex Safian July 23, 2023 David Remnick, the editor of The New Yorker magazine, once remarked “It’s one thing to be ignorant, it’s another to parade it as sophistication,” which has to … Continue reading
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The Opposition characterizes a program that seeks to restore a semblance of balance between an all-powerful court and judicial apparatus and the legislative and executive branches as a “coup” and “anti-democratic,” even though it would clearly make Israel’s system more rather than less democratic
ISRAEL HAYOM (by agreement with JNS) Who is actually doing the burning? Jonathan S. Tobin July 27, 2023 …Even the passage on Monday of the first part of the package, which would stop the court from ruling on issues merely … Continue reading
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Tagged Benjamin Netanyahu, Judicial Reform
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Calls from across the political spectrum to end Israeli aid, but for different reasons
JEWISH PRESS Buoyed by the Usual Suspects, NY Times Pushing for an End to US Military Aid to Israel David Israel July 23, 2023 On Saturday, NY Times pundit Nicholas Kristof, decidedly not a member of the we-all-love-Israel club, to … Continue reading
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