Category Archives: Israel & Middle East

#SOTU “was one pro-Jewish speech”

COMMENTARY The State of the Union is Pro-Jewish by Abe Greenwald February 6, 2019 …Trump talked about a great many other things, but it’s remarkable the extent to which his speech acknowledged, celebrated, and urged on America’s doing right by … Continue reading

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“Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein says that views on Israeli sovereignty are changing and the idea of a Palestinian state is looking more and more like a pipe dream”

ISRAEL HAYOM (by agreement with JNS) ‘The next Knesset will apply Israeli sovereignty in Judea and Samaria’ by Ariel Kahana February 1, 2019 …“The 21st Knesset will be the one to start applying Israeli sovereignty in Judea and Samaria,” he … Continue reading

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“Israel’s principal supporters in the US today are the evangelical Christians, whereas the Jewish community is utterly disunited and betraying its loyalty and obligations to the Jewish state”

JERUSALEM POST American Jewish leaders: Where are you? by Isi Leibler January 31, 2019 .. American Jews are free to support or oppose Trump, but they should do so as American citizens, not as Jews. If there is a case … Continue reading

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“Nitsana Darshan-Leitner, president of the organization, described the efforts to find a way to continue Palestinian funding as “outrageous””

WASHINGTON POST A U.S. law is about to end security aid to the Palestinians, and Israel is not happy by Loveday Morris January 31, 2019 U.S. security funding to the Palestinian Authority is set to dry up by midnight Thursday … Continue reading

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“There’s a particularly sweet spot in the enormous technology deal Israel has just pulled off”

JERUSALEM POST Ireland’s obsessional hatred of Israel by Melanie Phillips February 1, 2019 …Over the next five years, the tech giant Intel will invest a whopping $11 billion in a new semiconductor fabrication plant in Israel. The investment will be … Continue reading

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Democrat Omar and Republican Zeldin agree to meet to discuss antisemitism, Israel

THE HILL Zeldin accepts Omar’s invitation to discuss religious discrimination over Somali tea by Morgan Gstalter February 1, 2019 Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-N.Y.) on Friday accepted Rep. Ilhan Omar’s (D-Minn.) invitation to discuss religious discrimination over Somali tea after the … Continue reading

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Israeli team to head home from Brazil after almost a week; 99 victims confirmed dead and over 200 more still missing

TIMES OF ISRAEL Bolsonaro thanks ‘brave troops’ as IDF rescuers end search mission in Brazil by TOI staff and AP January 31, 2019 Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro on Thursday thanked Israeli rescuers who have been searching for survivors of a … Continue reading

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New Yorker article “full of mistakes, lies, and obfuscations — but mostly, an effort to delegitimize the Jewish presence in Hebron by casting it in a dark light”

DAILY WIRE The New Yorker Promotes Far-Left, Radical Islamist Team-Up Against Israel by Yishai Fleisher January 28, 2019 Recently, The New Yorker printed a hit-piece against the Jews living in the heart of Judea entitled, “A Guided Tour of Hebron, from Two … Continue reading

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Democrats join Republicans in bipartisan effort supporting Israeli sovereignty on Golan

JNS Top Democrats voice support for Israeli sovereignty on Golan by Ariel Kahana January 27, 2019 U.S. recognition of Israeli sovereignty in the Golan Heights got a significant boost over the weekend after a senior Democrat joined prominent Republicans in … Continue reading

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“We were officially kicked off of Birthright”

ELDER OF ZIYON How immoral do you have to be to lie about Birthright? January 29, 2019 In the Jewish Journal/Sun Sentinel of Florida, Rabbi Bruce Warshal writes a quite false op-ed about Birthright…”Two hours later, I stood on a … Continue reading

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