Category Archives: Israel & Middle East

“Beyond condemning the House of Saud for its role in the Khashoggi affair, Washington’s broader approach to the Kingdom needs to be carefully calibrated to reflect a number of new realities”

THE NATIONAL INTEREST Joe Biden’s Pressure On Saudi Arabia Has High Stakes by Ilan Berman March 1, 2021 Last week, the White House decided to publicly release a long-suppressed intelligence report pinning the blame on the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s de facto ruler, Crown … Continue reading

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“The idea that Americans have a right to question officials who formulate US foreign policy is, under Ben Rhodes’ mindset, simply absurd”

ALGEMEINER Has Ben Rhodes Made the Descent Into Antisemitism? by Dexter Van Zile March 3, 2021 Ben Rhodes, the former national security aide to President Obama — who once boasted that he used non-governmental groups and the media to create an … Continue reading

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“Gantz says there is ‘likelihood’ Tehran behind explosion in Gulf”

TIMES OF ISRAEL Blaming Iran, security officials said to back response to blast on Israeli ship by Staff and AP February 27, 2021 Israeli security officials view the attack on an Israeli-owned ship in the Persian Gulf on Friday as … Continue reading

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“Next month, Israelis will go to the polls to elect a new 120-seat Knesset. It will be Israel’s fourth general election in just under two year”

NEWSWEEK Netanyahu and Israel’s NeverNetanyahu Right by Caroline Glick February 25, 2021 …Despite Netanyahu’s demonization at the hands of the media at home and abroad, his positions are not extreme. They involve standing up for Israel’s rights and interests, developing … Continue reading

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“US President Joe Biden speaks to Saudi King Salman ahead of the release of the declassified US intelligence report on the killing and dismemberment of the US-based journalist”

ISRAEL HAYOM (by agreement with JNS) Ties with Saudis at stake as US releases findings on Khashoggi killing by AP and ILH staff February 26, 2021 The United States has pledged to tell the world its conclusions on what role … Continue reading

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“Manfred Gerstenfeld was a Jewish renaissance man and a prodigious writer who leaves a rich legacy in many different realms. Born in Vienna in 1937, he and his family were forced to flee, and survived the Holocaust by hiding in a small apartment in Amsterdam”

JERUSALEM POST Remembering Manfred Gerstenfeld – Jewish renaissance man by Gerald M Steinberg February 25, 2021 …In the past two decades, Gerstenfeld became a leading expert on antisemitism – particularly the European resurgence, and warning of the “new” manifestations such … Continue reading

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“The Iranians didn’t realize that Biden is not Obama, and that in the end they will miscalculate and get hit”

ALGEMEINER Report: Israel ‘Very Pleased’ With US Strikes on Iranian Targets in Syria, Was Informed in Advance by Staff February 26, 2021 Israeli officials were “very pleased” with US airstrikes against Iran-backed militias in eastern Syria Thursday, and were informed by the … Continue reading

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“Tel Aviv University archaeologists Miki Ben-Dor and Ran Barkai proffer novel hypothesis, showing how the greed of Homo erectus set us careening down an anomalous evolutionary path”

HAARETZ Israeli Archaeologists Present Groundbreaking Universal Theory of Human Evolution by Ruth Schuster February 25, 2021 Why the human brain evolved as it did never has been plausibly explained. Apparently, not since the first life-form billions of years ago did … Continue reading

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“Netanyahu swiftly expressed concern last Friday after Secretary of State Tony Blinken said the U.S. was prepared to begin nuclear talks with Iran aimed at restoring the 2015 deal”

AXIOS Scoop: U.S. and Israel to convene strategic forum on Iran by Barak Ravid February 24, 2021 The United States and Israel have elected to reconvene a strategic working group on Iran, with the first round of talks on intelligence surrounding … Continue reading

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In a letter to the incoming ICC prosecutor, a group of 16 leaders, including the former premiers of Canada, Australia, Spain and Uruguay, state their concern at the “unprecedented campaign of delegitimization against Israel.”

JNS Former world leaders take stand against ICC investigation of Israel by Ariel Kahana February 22, 2021 A group of former heads of state and high-ranking ministers on Friday sent a letter to newly-appointed International Criminal Court prosecutor Karim Khan, … Continue reading

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