Category Archives: Israel & Middle East

Israel’s potential directives include: gatherings capped at 10 people, closing beachfronts, synagogues and yeshivot, reducing public transportation, allowing restaurants only to open for delivery

JERUSALEM POST Edelstein says Israel could face total corona lockdown within four days by Maayan Jaffe-Hoffman July 15, 2020 Due to the continued rise in coronavirus cases, the government will roll out new restrictions within the next two days, Prime … Continue reading

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A prominent #NYT pro-Israel voice is silenced. Who’s next, Bret Stephens ?

DEADLINE Bari Weiss Resigns From New York Times Decrying “Constant Bullying” Of Colleagues Ted Johnson July 14, 2020 Bari Weiss, staff editor and writer in The New York Times’ opinion section, resigned on Tuesday, decrying what she said was “constant … Continue reading

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“It’s time for URJ members to speak up and ask Rick Jacobs some hard questions”

WORLD ISRAEL NEWS Liberal Jewish leaders attack Jews who point out BLM’s anti-Semitism by Daniel Greenfield July 12, 2020 …Black Lives Matter is anti-Semitic. Its leaders declare that they’re Marxists. Portions of the movement are openly aligned with Farrakhan and … Continue reading

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If taken seriously, Beinart’s solution could lead to a final solution

WASHINGTON TIMES Peter Beinart’s one-state solution by Clifford D. May July 14, 2020 Peter Beinart is at it again. If you don’t know to whom I’m referring you might count yourself lucky, not bother to read the paragraphs that follow, … Continue reading

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Why are rich privileged white people trying to reduce services in the black community?

Ami Horowitz goes to the Leftist East Village as well as Harlem and asks residents their opinions on abolishing the police. Why are woke whites pushing to reduce policing in the black community?

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“Blast at Iran centrifuge assembly facility may have set back development by 2 years, experts tell the NY Times”

TIMES OF ISRAEL Israel’s alleged Natanz strike ‘as complex as Stuxnet,’ a major blow to Iran by Staff July 10, 2020 An alleged Israeli attack on an advanced centrifuge development and assembly plant at Iran’s Natanz uranium enrichment facility exhibited … Continue reading

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“According to sources, another senior Hamas military commander was recently arrested on suspicion of collaborating with Israel”

JERUSALEM POST Has Israel infiltrated Hamas’s military wing? by Khaled Abu Toameh July 11, 2020 A senior commander of Hamas’s military wing, Izzadin al-Qassam Brigades, has reportedly fled the Gaza Strip amid suspicions that he had been collaborating with Israel, … Continue reading

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“Beinart is a smart guy; he knows that for his readers to buy his thesis, it is important that they not know very much”

TIMES OF ISRAEL End the Jewish State? Let’s try some honesty, first by Daniel Gordis July 8, 2020 …About what do we [Peter Beinart and myself] agree? I share Peter’s deep frustration over the plight of Palestinian Arabs. I, too, … Continue reading

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J Street and If Not Now sign letter to Biden advocating for, among other things, defunding Pentagon

I24NEWS J Street, If Not Now among groups urging Biden not to appoint BDS critics on security jobs July 8, 2020 J Street and If Not Now, two left-leaning Jewish groups, were among the signatories of a letter to Joe … Continue reading

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US Justice Department: “Justice is overdue for the many victims of Iranian-supported terror”

ARAB NEWS US court orders Iran to pay $879m to 1996 Khobar bombing survivors July 10, 2020 A US federal court has held Iran responsible for the 1996 bombing of the Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia where US forces were … Continue reading

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