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Category Archives: Israel & Middle East
Four of the six prison fugitives were in jail for life in connection with deadly attacks against Israelis; Israel cancels family visits for Palestinian prisoners, following violent riots that broke out in jails across Israel
TIMES OF ISRAEL Escaped security prisoners said to have dug tunnel from their cell’s shower by Staff September 9, 2021 The six Palestinian security prisoners who escaped Gilboa Prison earlier this week dug a tunnel from the shower basin in … Continue reading
According to Canary Mission, UIC branch of Students for Justice in Palestine stepped up its efforts in 2020-21, even attacking the wider Chicago Jewish community
ISRAEL HAYOM (by agreement with JNS) New report finds ‘disturbing’ levels of antisemitic activity at Univ. of Illinois Chicago by Meira Svirsky and JNS September 3, 2021 Last week, the University of Illinois at Chicago welcomed students back to campus. … Continue reading
Today’s thought experiment: Imagine the international outcry if Israel had done this
JERUSALEM POST Egypt pumps toxic gas into Gaza tunnel, three Palestinians dead by Staff September 3, 2021 Three Palestinians died on Thursday as the Egyptian military pumped toxic gas into a smuggling tunnel, Palestinian media reported. The tunnel stretches from … Continue reading
Counterterrorism expert says Palestinian ally of bin Laden unwittingly revealed 2002 plan to kill hundreds at nightclubs, enabling thwarting of attacks ‘at the last moment’
TIMES OF ISRAEL Al-Qaeda plotted multiple terror attacks in Israel after 9/11, FBI agent says by Staff September 4, 2021 Al-Qaeda planned to carry out massive terrorist attacks on Israeli nightclubs in 2002 and was in the final stages of … Continue reading
Israel’s rising stature as a military power in the region is clearly a by-product of the new US policy decision to reduce its own military presence in the Mideast
GATESTONE Israel: Still the ‘Strong Horse’ by Lawrence A. Franklin September 4, 2021 Israel — no longer diplomatically isolated — appears to be assuming a more prominent political and military role in the Middle East. Following Israel’s generous peace terms … Continue reading
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“While a covert campaign to make critical race theory part and parcel of school curricula has been the most visible part of the activist educators’ efforts to corrupt teaching of America’s children, not far behind has been a troubling, pernicious campaign to demonize Israel and Zionism”
FRONT PAGE MAG Public School Educators’ Obsessive Hatred of Israel by Richard L. Cravatts September 2, 2021 …It is inexcusable that educators in America’s public schools have decided to become pro-Palestinian activists; that they have decided it is appropriate and … Continue reading
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Tagged BDS, Boycott Divest Sanctions, Palestinians
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The fall of Afghanistan: Service can’t review its own performance. An independent civilian commission is necessary.
WALL STREET JOURNAL The Army Needs to Understand the Afghanistan Disaster by Frank Sobchak and Matthew Zais September 8, 2021 The U.S. war in Afghanistan was a costly failure. More than 2,400 Americans died during the two-decade conflict. Tens of … Continue reading
Dara Horn’s fierce and often hilarious new collection of essays gives hope and backbone to the living
TABLET MAG People Love Dead Jews by David Mikics September 2, 2021 …Horn’s sarcasm is bracing, reminding us that the politics of Jewish memory often becomes an outrageous marketing of half-truths and outright lies…Horn begins People Love Dead Jews with a … Continue reading
A new literary weapon by Andrew Pessin is a sparkling and savagely satirical novel about campus “cancel culture”
JNS When anti-Semitic lunatics take control of the academic asylum by Melanie Phillips September 2, 2021 …Those who support Zionism often find themselves “canceled.” That’s because the Marxist dogma of identity politics divides people into powerful and powerless according to … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Pessin, antisemitism, cancel culture, intersectionality
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Can one even imagine Truman begging the Iranian ayatollahs for a nuclear deal not in our favor? Or handing over the keys to a country to the same terrorists who used it to launch an attack on America only 20 years ago?
NEW YORK SUN A Tale of Two Photos Captures Different Americas by Warren Kozak August 30, 2021 Two photographs, taken 76 years apart — within the lifetime of many — drive home the change our country has taken in that … Continue reading
ArchitectGuy on Israel 