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- "The strategic paradigms that governed the Middle East for decades have shifted. Not all of them. Not fully. But the shift is real, larger than is yet fully understood, and Israel drove it"
- Islamists only want one thing. We cannot appease them
- Chicago Tribune endorses Bruce Rauner, to revive Illinois
- On #MemorialDay or any other day, the cemeteries for those Americans who fell in battle offer profound lessons
- Government plan to make Israel "a world leader in medical cannabis"
- "Human Rights Watch takes a break from Israel-bashing to examine abuses by Fatah and Hamas"
- Rashida, we can't hear you...Police threaten to arrest members of al-Qaws, Palestinian LGBT group
- “The fact that Biden would embrace J Street’s endorsement suggests he is pivoting to the left, not the center — at the cost of whatever pro-Israel views he once may have had”
Category Archives: Israel & Middle East
Kuwaiti editor urges “all Gulf states to normalize relations with Israel due to the fact that peace with this most advanced country is the right thing to do”
MEDIA LINE Kuwaiti Daily ‘Arab Times’ Calls for Normalization With Israel by Steven Ganot January 30, 2022 An editorial published in the Kuwaiti daily Arab Times this weekend to a somewhat surprising position when it called for the Gulf states … Continue reading
#BretStephens: “Israel’s defenders seem intent on fighting their battles in the settings where they are most likely to lose: elite universities, prestige media outlets, and other venues where opinions tend to range from the left to the far left”
SAPIR Israel Wins the War of Ideas by Bret Stephens Winter 2022 …Each of these arguments may be right on the merits, yet they rarely do more than preach to the converted. As for the unconverted, the best argument is … Continue reading
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Denying Islamic terrorism is the real delusion
JNS France’s Macron tries to reclassify Muslim terrorism as mental illness by Daniel Greenfield February 1, 2022 There’s hardly been a Muslim terrorist attack committed by a single perpetrator in Europe or America in the last five years that the … Continue reading
Posted in Islam, Israel & Middle East, Jewish, Politics
Tagged antisemitism, Terrorism
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IHRA definition of antisemitism “controversial” where it recognizes that double-standard criticism of Israel is actually Jew-hatred
TIMES OF ISRAEL UN head skirts adoption of IHRA antisemitism definition in Holocaust memorial speech by Jacob Magid January 27, 2022 United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Thursday skirted around announcing the adoption of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s definition … Continue reading
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Tagged António Guterres, antisemitism, IHRA, United Nations
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“Attorney general who brought the charges against Netanyahu, Avichai Mandelblit, is due to leave office at month’s end, and both prosecution and defense see benefit in concluding the negotiations beforehand”
FDD Possible Netanyahu Plea Deal Could Shake Up Israeli Politics by Shany Mor January 25, 2022 Former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is mulling a plea deal that would spare him prison time but likely bar him from politics for … Continue reading
Posted in Israel & Middle East, Politics
Tagged Avichai Mandelblit, Benjamin Netanyahu
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“The terrorist stopped me from being a parent, he shouldn’t stop me from being a grandparent”
JERUSALEM POST Bereaved families fight to use deceased child’s sperm to be grandparents by Anna Ahronheim January 25, 2022 Bereaved families who lost their sons during military service are fighting the state to allow them to become grandparents by using … Continue reading
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“Many of the states promoting and supporting the establishment of the UN commission among the most ardent and prevailing human rights violators in the international community”
JERUSALEM CENTER FOR PUBLIC AFFAIRS The UN Descent to its Deepest Depths of Hostility against Israel by Alan Baker January 23, 2022 The inherent, long-existing political hostility against the State of Israel within the United Nations, in general, and the … Continue reading
Posted in Islam, Israel & Middle East, Jewish, Politics
Tagged United Nations, United Nations Human Rights Council
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“If you think the reason Israel gets so much support in Congress is the money and influence of the pro-Israel lobby, you might be surprised to learn that that lobby ranks 20th on the most recent list of congressional donors”
NEW YORK TIMES What an Antisemite’s Fantasy Says About Jewish Reality by Bret Stephens January 21, 2022 A man travels 4,800 miles from the north of England to the heart of Texas. Once there, appearing to be homeless, he gains … Continue reading
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Tagged antisemitism, Colleyville, Texas
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“In each case, except for the attacks in the synagogues in Pittsburgh and Poway, the assailants were Islamists and Palestinian terrorists”
WHITE ROSE Woke Terrorism by Thane Rosenbaum January 22, 2022 …It goes without saying that other planned attacks—in an astounding number of different nations—have not gone so well. The law of averages when it comes to Jews confronted with those … Continue reading
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Tagged antisemitism, Terrorism
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Opening Jan. 27 at the Illinois Holocaust Museum in Chicago, ‘The Journey Back’ puts participants in the narrators’ shoes as they hear their tales of suffering and survival
TIMES OF ISRAEL Holocaust survivors help viewers experience the camps firsthand, via virtual reality by Cathryn J. Prince January 27, 2022 Every morning inside the barracks, 599 women each tore a crumb from their small bread rations and gave it … Continue reading
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