Category Archives: Israel & Middle East

“Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett thanks President Joe Biden for his recent support for Israel during the Gaza war”

JNS Biden congratulates Bennett, agrees to work closely on regional security, Iran by Staff June 13, 2021 Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett spoke with U.S. President Joe Biden on Sunday just hours after the Israeli leader was sworn into office. … Continue reading

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“Israel told its citizens they could stop wearing masks indoors on Tuesday”

REUTERS Israel scraps indoor mask order as COVID-19 infections wane June 15, 2021 srael told its citizens they could stop wearing masks indoors on Tuesday, ending one of its last main restrictions as new COVID-19 infections continued to wane even … Continue reading

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Social psychologist Len Saxe says time is ripe for young Jews to make Birthright trip: “For this generation coming off the loneliness and emotional challenges of COVID, the hunger to engage with peers makes this a propitious moment to go to Israel”

ISRAEL HAYOM (by agreement with JNS) After a year away, Birthright participants return to Israel at critical time by Deborah Fineblum June 11, 2021 After more than a year of pandemic silence, Taglit-Birthright Israel participants have returned with all the … Continue reading

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Reporters from CNN, New York Times, Washington Post, and other outlets demand Israel be covered as ‘apartheid’ state

FOX NEWS Anti-Israel journalists blasted as ‘propagandists’ for stunning letter by David Rutz June 10, 2021 An open letter from journalists representing mainstream and left-wing media outlets this week called on other journalists to cover Israel as a violent and … Continue reading

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The Squad’s ideas “which are now mainstream in universities, are dividing the country by race, religion, and income and pitting those angry factions against each other”

REAL CLEAR POLITICS Ilhan Omar and Contempt for America by Charles Lipson June 15, 2021 …The problem here goes well beyond Ilhan Omar, a Somali refugee who was welcomed to American and now sits in Congress, seething with contempt for … Continue reading

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“In the hate business, antisemitism was always an easy sell and business is really good now”

JERUSALEM POST Anti-Israel rhetoric has always been about the Jews by Nitsana Darshan-Leitner June 10, 2021 …Israel’s hardcore critics reserved never-before-seen toxicity in their venomous assaults for this go-round. Israel’s antagonists used terms such as “disproportionate use of force,” “illegal,” … Continue reading

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Dermer on Netanyahu: “He’s simply an Israeli patriot, but detractors called him an enemy of peace, even a Republican”

WALL STREET JOURNAL The Demonization of Benjamin Netanyahu by Ron Dermer June 11, 2021 Opponents of Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s longest-serving prime minister, have worked for more than a quarter-century to tarnish his image in the U.S. and around the world. … Continue reading

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“Lapid railed at the dysfunction of the Netanyahu-Gantz government. Yet he and Bennett have set up one just as big and wasteful. What’s needed, paradoxically, is a bigger Knesset”

TIMES OF ISRAEL Why the champions of change are forming one of Israel’s most bloated governments by Haviv Rettig Gur June 12, 2021 …The sheer size and bloat of the new unity government — 28 cabinet ministers and six deputy … Continue reading

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“While the 12 signees did the right thing, the fact that the other 13 Jewish Democrats—a majority of the caucus—refused to do so is an equally clear indication that even among Jews, support for Israel among Democrats is on the decline”

JNS Omar forces a difficult choice for Jewish Democrats by Jonathan Tobin June 10, 2021 After a surge in violent anti-Semitism inspired in no small part by vicious attacks on Israel by members of their party’s left-wing, some Jewish Democrats … Continue reading

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Days after stepping down, Yossi Cohen gives specific details of Mossad actions against Tehran nuke program

TIMES OF ISRAEL In stunning, revelatory interview, ex-Mossad chief warns Iran, defends Netanyahu by Staff June 11, 2021 ….Cohen intimated that his agency blew up Iran’s underground centrifuge facility at Natanz, gave a precise description of the 2018 operation in … Continue reading

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