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- Oren: “Before Europe casts us off completely, perhaps we should separate first. It's time, I maintain, to say goodbye”
- "Iranian Opposition Activists Defend Israel in Latest Round of Conflict With Hamas in Gaza"
- This month marks 12 years curating posts as a news aggregator.
- "My visit to Europe made one thing unmistakably clear: if there is any group in the world that needs a safe homeland — a sanctuary from bigotry and hatred — it is the Jewish people"
- Assessing the Strategic Threat from ISIS
- On #MemorialDay or any other day, the cemeteries for those Americans who fell in battle offer profound lessons
- #BDSFail at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
- Brilliant unpacking of Hannah Arendt’s “Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil”
Category Archives: Israel & Middle East
“The families have threatened to boycott next month’s ceremony commemorating 50 years since the 1972 terror attack in which 11 Israeli Olympic athletes were murdered”
TIMES OF ISRAEL German president mulling Israel visit amid Munich 50th anniversary boycott Ash Obel August 18, 2022 German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier is considering flying to Israel in a bid to convince the families of the Munich massacre victims to … Continue reading
Posted in Israel & Middle East, Politics
Tagged 1972 Summer Olympics, Frank Walter-Steinmeier, Germany, Olympics
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#NYT reportedly severs ties with Fady Hanona after his antisemitic social media posts revealed
JNS NYT said to cut Gaza stringer loose for urging murder of Israelis August 14, 2022 The New York Times has cut ties with Gaza-based stringer Fady Hanona over a string of anti-Semitic social media posts brought to light by … Continue reading
Posted in Israel & Middle East
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Why is Joe Biden alternately ignoring and funding the ever-closer alliance between Iran and Putin?
TABLET MAG Totalitarians Inc. Emanuele Ottolenghi August 11, 2022 Are Russia and Iran forging a strategic alliance? Vladimir Putin’s recent trip to Tehran for a trilateral summit with Iranian leaders and Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan suggests so. As does … Continue reading
“The field of research into the US-Israel relationship is likewise skewed, according to Mead, by writers who are convinced that Jews have been at the center of the decision-making”
ELDER OF ZIYON Book review: The Arc of a Covenant by Walter Russell Mead August 14, 2022 The Arc of a Covenant is a well-researched book about the history of the US-Israel relationship. And it destroys many myths in the … Continue reading
Posted in Israel & Middle East, Jewish, Politics
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Abbas comparison to systematic killing of 6 million Jews drew ire and calls for an apology from around the world
ALL ISRAEL NEWS Mahmoud Abbas and the ‘monstrous lie’ of the 50 Holocausts committed by Israel against Palestinians Nicole Jansezian August 17, 2022 Rather than apologize when asked by a reporter whether he regretted the murder by Palestinians of 11 … Continue reading
Posted in Islam, Israel & Middle East, Politics
Tagged antisemitism, Holocaust, Mahmoud Abbas, Palestinians
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“It had been more than 10 years since the Peruvian immigrants landed at Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion Airport, and not all had gone according to the group’s Holy Land dreams”
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Hamas helpfully suggests media lie about Gazan provication with Israel; when is challenged, policy changed
ASSOCIATED PRESS Hamas issues, then rescinds, sweeping rules on Gaza coverage Tia Goldenberg and Joseph Krauss August 9, 2022 Gaza’s militant Hamas rulers issued sweeping new restrictions on journalists after the recent conflict there, but then rescinded them, a group … Continue reading
“Hamas does not invite P.A. President Mahmoud Abbas to visit. But it does tolerate another rival: Palestinian Islamic Jihad, which is fully funded, armed and guided by Iran’s rulers”
ISRAEL HAYOM (by agreement with JNS) The ‘forever war’ against the West Clifford D. May August 11, 2022 …PIJ [Palestinian Islamic Jihad], however, cannot abide even a temporary détente. Israeli intelligence learned that the group was preparing terrorist attacks not … Continue reading
Posted in Islam, Israel & Middle East, Politics
Tagged Gaza, Hamas, Iran, Palestinian, Palestinian Islamic Jihad
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Iranian agent offered $300k to have John Bolton “purged”
ALGEMEINER Iran Revolutionary Guard Member Charged With Plot to Murder John Bolton, US Justice Dept Says Reuters August 10, 2022 The United States charged a member of Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guard Corps on Wednesday with plotting to murder John Bolton, … Continue reading
“As Israel decouples from China, there will be even greater opportunities for greater cooperation between close allies. Israel must support the US and keep a distance from China”
JPOST Time for Israel to pivot away from Beijing Jacob Nagel and Mark Dubowitz August 9, 2022 The recent tensions between the United States and the People’s Republic of China over Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan could further deteriorate into … Continue reading