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- "President Joe Biden's Iran policy was conceived and is being implemented by the same people who negotiated the JCPOA under Obama, who argued in favor of empowering Iran"
- Obama Praises Muslim Cleric Who Backed Fatwa on Killing of U.S. Soldiers
- An #Illinois default: "It’s a safe bet that everyone will share in the pain—taxpayers, bondholders, and public pensioners alike"
- "Nursing home residents, the highest risk population, should be the most straightforward to systematically protect from infected people, given that they already live in confined places with highly restricted entry"
- "Yet at any other age than the divisive present, the report would not have been seen as controversial"
- Iran hopes to stoke fear that its “breakout timing” is shrinking and thereby increase pressure on the Biden administration to reenter the #IranDeal before time runs out
Category Archives: Israel & Middle East
“Trump administration had warned that further Chinese involvement in big infrastructure projects, like the new port in Haifa, could damage the U.S.-Israel security relationship”
AXIOS CIA director raised China concerns with Israeli prime minister by Barak Ravid August 18, 2021 While visiting Israel last week, CIA director Bill Burns told Prime Minister Naftali Bennett the U.S. was concerned about Chinese investments in Israel, particularly … Continue reading
“While the law does not mention Jews, the Holocaust or World War II, it ensures that an administrative decision rendered more than 30 years ago could no longer be challenged”
ISRAEL HAYOM (by agreement with JNS) Will Polish anti-restitution law permanently harm ties with Israel, Jewish community? by Dmitriy Shapiro, JNS and ILH Staff August 18, 2021 Despite international pressure to veto the bill, Polish President Andrzej Duda signed a … Continue reading
Twenty years, $2 trillion, and the most powerful army in the world were no match for the one thing the Taliban has—and that current American leadership has lost
TABLET MAG Assabiya Wins Every Time by Lee Smith August 18, 2021 Democrats and Republicans are right to blame each other for the fall of Kabul. It’s a loss for America’s bipartisan foreign policy establishment as a whole. For nearly … Continue reading
“UNRWA has been under fire for incitement in teaching material at its schools and in employee social media posts”
JERUSALEM POST UNRWA to probe 10 staff members for anti-Israel hate speech by Tovah Lazaroff August 6, 2021 The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) pledged to investigate 10 of its staff members for anti-Israel hate … Continue reading
Posted in Israel & Middle East, Jewish, Politics
Tagged UN Watch, United Nations Refugee and Works Agency, UNRWA
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Artem Dolgopyat won Israel a Gold Medal, and in the process rekindled a long-simmering Israeli debate about what it means to be a Jew
DANIEL GORDIS SUBSTACK Might a gold medal not be his only legacy? August 9, 2021 Lev Paschov certainly never imagined that he would be buried twice. An Israeli soldier who had immigrated to Israel from the former Soviet Union through … Continue reading
“Far from being the president that transformed Iran’s fortunes for the better, Mr Rouhani will forever be remembered as one of the most disastrous leaders in the country’s history”
GATESTONE Hassan Rouhani’s Iranian Presidency Has Been an Abject Failure by Con Coughlin August 5, 2021 When Iranian President Hassan Rouhani leaves office today, Thursday, he will do so in the knowledge that his eight-year term has been little more … Continue reading
Posted in Islam, Israel & Middle East, Politics
Tagged Hassan Rouhani, Iran, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani
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“Mittal also serves as chairwoman of the Ben & Jerry’s independent corporate board and was a driving force behind the ice cream company’s decision to boycott Israel”
FREE BEACON Ben and Jerry’s Gave $170,000 in Grants to Board Trustee’s Anti-Israel Foundation by Alana Goodman August 4, 2021 The Ben & Jerry’s Foundation steered over $170,000 in grants to an anti-Israel nonprofit group run by one of its … Continue reading
Michael Oren: “The Arab revolts of the 1920s and ’30s demonstrated that Arab opposition to the Jewish presence in Palestine began well before the founding of Israel and was directed at all Jews, even the non-Zionist ultra-Orthodox”
TABLET MAG The Beauty Queen of Jerusalem by Michael Oren August 4, 2021 Israeli television’s latest hit, The Beauty Queen of Jerusalem, is melodramatic, plodding, predictable, and, by American standards at least, culturally inappropriate. It is also ahistorical and politically … Continue reading
“Jews cannot end antisemitism by improving themselves, either by involvement in “social justice” activities to help other oppressed groups (many of whose members don’t like Jews much anyway), or by becoming “new Jews” who drive tractors and milk cows rather than lending money”
ELDER OF ZIYON Antisemitism and the Jewish State by Vic Rosenthal August 11, 2021 …Most initiatives to “fight antisemitism” rely on some form of educational enterprise. These are doomed to fail, especially “Holocaust education,” which is intended to make people … Continue reading
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