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- “‘Lox and Loaded’ partnership comes as anxieties fuel interest in firearms”
- Former US officials blast decision to deny Pollard parole
- In Obama-speak, they're not "criminals" but "justice-involved individuals" (and Jack the Ripper was one of those “cutlery-involved folks”)
- "The great majority of Israelis, so violently awakened from Oslo’s delusions, have reconciled themselves to basic realities"
- “They amassed in Paris's Place de la République, carrying banners accusing Israel of massacring Palestinians and shouting 'dirty Jews' at their opponent”
- "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"
- "A DC rally against Jew-hatred struck many of the right notes, but the poor turnout, combined with obvious divisions between left and right, illustrates the dismal Jewish crisis response"
- "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"
Category Archives: Israel & Middle East
“Israel had warned the US that Iran would use a break in JCPOA talks to advance its nuclear program”
JERUSALEM POST Gantz: Iran is 10 weeks from breakout to a nuclear weapon by Lahav Harkov August 5, 2021 Tehran will be able to break out to a nuclear weapon within 10 weeks, Defense Minister Benny Gantz told diplomats from … Continue reading
“British assessments concluded it was “highly likely” that Iran attacked the Israeli-owned tanker using one or more drones”
REUTERS UK says ‘highly likely’ Iran attacked tanker off Oman August 1, 2021 Britain on Sunday said it believed Iran carried out an attack on an Israeli-managed petroleum product tanker off the coast of Oman on July 29 that killed … Continue reading
To get a sense of just how bad Russia’s sudden about face is for Israel, it’s important to remember what jolted Netanyahu into action six years ago
ISRAEL HAYOM (by agreement with JNS) How Putin Understands the Lapid-Bennett Government by Caroline Glick July 31, 2021 Thursday it was reported that the IDF is planning to change its tactics in Syria and will base its operations against Iranian … Continue reading
Posted in Israel & Middle East, Politics
Tagged Benjamin Netanyahu, Naftali Bennett, Russia, Syria, Vladimir Putin
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24-year-old Artem Dolgopyat: “The artistic gymnast who soared to the second gold in Israeli Olympic history keeps his feet firmly on the ground amid national euphoria”
TIMES OF ISRAEL Israel’s modest gold medalist: Artem Dolgopyat proves a disarming Olympic hero by David Horovitz August 1, 2021 Artem Dolgopyat, Israel’s first gold winner of the Tokyo Olympics, and only its second gold medal winner ever, must be … Continue reading
“I decided there and then that if they were truly going to make a move that followed a BDS strategy, then of course I would have to quit”
ALGEMEINER Former Ben & Jerry’s employee details efforts to away company on Israel decision by Shiryn Ghermezian July 27, 2021 An ex-employee of Ben & Jerry’s who left the company after it announced that it was ending sales in the … Continue reading
“A number of Democratic establishment figures, including the JDCA, DMFI and members of the Congressional Black Caucus campaigned for Brown, while Sanders and other progressives rallied for Nina Turner”
JERUSALEM POST Pro-Israel Democrat Shontel Brown defeats rival Turner in Ohio primary by Reuters August 4, 2021 In a crowded primary race for a vacant US seat in the Democratic enclave of Ohio’s 11th District, local establishment Democrat Shontel Brown … Continue reading
Posted in Islam, Israel & Middle East, Jewish, Politics
Tagged ADL, Jonathan Greenblatt, Rashida Tlaib
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“Amid an alarming spike in antisemitism, JewBelong pivots to garner mainstream support, but critics say the organization’s eye-catching billboards largely resonate with donors”
TIMES OF ISRAEL Campaign hopes to fight US Jew-hatred with shocking ads, but who’s reading them? by Eliyahu Kamisher July 31, 2021 Dozens of hot-pink billboards and transit ads have appeared in major American cities over the last month, referencing … Continue reading
“In ongoing fracas around Yair Lapid’s speech on antisemitism’s place in the family of hatreds comes an unstated reckoning between Zionist expectations and a bitter reality”
TIMES OF ISRAEL A hatred that dwells alone? Antisemitism debate cuts to heart of Zionist vision by Haviv Rettig Gur July 26, 2021 On July 14, Foreign Minister Yair Lapid suggested in a speech that antisemitism was not as special … Continue reading
Posted in Israel & Middle East, Jewish, Politics
Tagged antisemitism, Benjamin Netanyahu, Yair Lapid
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“The new Israeli government — which combines parties from the right to the far-left and includes an Arab political party in the coalition — has received positive gestures from across the Middle East”
THE HILL Israel Is Making New Friends, with Netanyahu Out of Office by Seth J. Frantzman July 26, 2021 Nineteen years after Israel’s observer status at the African Union was ended during the Second Intifada, Israel’s Foreign Minister Yair Lapid … Continue reading
Posted in Israel & Middle East, Jewish, Politics
Tagged Benjamin Netanyahu, Naftali Bennett
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“The home of an entire family shouldn’t be demolished for the action of one individual,” the Americans pontificated. But the arrogance was only beginning
JERUSALEM POST The world reacts to Israel with arrogance and hypocrisy by Nitsana Darshan-Leitner July 22, 2021 The US State Department reached a new level of sanctimonious ridiculousness when, after the IDF destroyed the home of a Palestinian lone-wolf terrorist … Continue reading
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