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- "Had Trump allowed Israel one final operation in Iran, the IDF would have chosen to destroy the uranium. The Mossad, by contrast, would have chosen an all-out effort to stir Iranians into action and topple the regime"
- French police investigating death of Jewish woman thrown from window by Arab neighbor. And another Israeli killed in ramming attack [VIDEO]
- Media Rule: Only talk about Palestinian refugees -- never Jewish refugees
- Israel’s Shin Bet security services "succeeded in thwarting an assassination attempt on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat in April"
- Latest poll: "Sanders would defeat Trump with Jewish voters with 65% to 30%"
- "The Negev Summit was at once a spectacular success and one of the most flagrant displays of Israeli diplomatic incompetence in history"
- "It seems that some of our leadership is so concerned about Israel’s image in foreign media that they tend to jump at the chance to agree that we are as bad as they say we are and beg forgiveness" [VIDEO]
- The courageous Mosul Iraq journalist-blogger who kept his eye on the Islamic State, from the inside
Category Archives: Israel & Middle East
AIPAC, ADL behind Senate bipartisan effort addressing terror groups
JERUSALEM POST U.S. Senate urged to push bill targeting Hamas, Hezbollah use of human shields by JTA August 12, 2018 AIPAC, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee and the Anti-Defamation League are urging United States lawmakers to co-sponsor a bill … Continue reading
Posted in Islam, Israel & Middle East, Politics
Tagged ADL, AIPAC, B'nai Brith, Hamas, Hezbollah, Senate
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“There’s an old adage that there are no atheists in a foxhole. Let me add a corollary to that adage — there are no pacifists in a bomb shelter. The urge to strike back at your attacker is instinctive”
TIMES OF ISRAEL Musings from a bomb shelter by Mark Werner August 9, 2018 Most Americans have never had the experience of being wakened in the middle of the night by a Tzeva Adom (“Code Red”) siren, rushing to the … Continue reading
Standard and Poor’s upgrade “very significant achievement for Israel’s economy, which is estimated to grow 3.3% by 2021”
THE TOWER Following Moody’s, Standard and Poor’s Gives Israel an Improved Credit Rating by Staff August 6, 2018 For the second time in two months, an international credit rating agency has raised its assessment of Israel’s economy, as Standard and Poor’s … Continue reading
With the birth of Israel “suddenly the Jews, about whose inordinate power bigots had fantasized for 2,000 years, had some real power to defend themselves”
THE FORWARD Sorry, Liberals: Anti-Zionism Is Anti-Semitic by Petra Marquardt-Bigman August 7, 2018 …The truth is, there is no difference between the two. For anti-Semitism did not stop evolving with the Nazis. Jew-haters everywhere consider Israel to be the Jew of nations, representing all … Continue reading
Hamas leadership “wants to signal to Israel, Egypt and the Palestinian Authority that it is willing to go all the way in its quest to end Gaza’s isolation”
JNS Hamas is taking the region to the brink of war by Yaakov Lappin August 9, 2018 The security escalation in southern Israel and the Gaza Strip over the last 24 hours shows that Hamas is prepared to take the … Continue reading
Shmuley to Cory: Your waning for support for Israel (and her security) “has American Jewry saddened, perplexed, and alarmed’
BREITBART What Happened to You, Cory Booker? by Rabbi Shmuley Boteach August 6, 2018 …Then came the photo this past Friday. Cory’s excuse for appearing in it is that he was posing for pictures and was passed a sign to … Continue reading
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“When my friend #PerAhlmark passed away in June, at the age of 79, the free world lost an eminent writer, poet and pro-democracy activist”
JERUSALEM POST Sweden’s Prophet by Hillel Neuer August 6, 2018 For the late Per Ahlmark, history revealed three empirical rules that proved why liberal democracy was vital for all of humanity. First, “no democracy has ever gone to war against … Continue reading
Posted in Israel & Middle East, Politics
Tagged Hillel Neuer, Per Ahlmark, Sweden, UN Watch
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Trump’s Iran sanctions: “Rather than just hitting the nation’s economy, U.S. penalties should target those responsible for repression”
BLOOMBERG Trump’s Sanctions Miss a Chance to Help Iran’s Protesters by Eli Lake August 7, 2018 In light of the recent demonstrations in Iranian cities, one might think the Donald Trump administration would want to link Monday’s re-implementation of sanctions to … Continue reading
AMCHA Study: “Suppressing speech and ostracizing and excluding Jewish and pro-Israel students from campus life were the most common features of Israel-related anti-Semitic incidents”
SAN DIEGO JEWISH WORLD Anti- Israel protests create hostile campuses for Jews August 8, 2018 In its annual report on anti-Semitic activity on U.S. campuses, released today, AMCHA Initiative found that Israel-related anti-Semitic incidents were considerably more likely to contribute … Continue reading
New Nation State Law’s “principal damage has been to stir up negative public discourse — in Israel and abroad”
TIMES OF ISRAEL Why this former Israeli military intelligence chief stands with the Druze by Amos Yadlin August 7, 2018 Israel’s new “nation-state” law, which is widely viewed here as clumsy, unnecessary and unwise, must be amended. That’s why I … Continue reading
Posted in Israel & Middle East, Jewish, Politics
Tagged Druze, Isi Leibler, Nation-State Law
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