Category Archives: Politics

“President Joe Biden’s Iran policy was conceived and is being implemented by the same people who negotiated the JCPOA under Obama, who argued in favor of empowering Iran”

ISRAEL HAYOM (by agreement with JNS) Biden’s Drive to War in the Middle East by Caroline Glick February 5, 2021 On Monday, Iran tested a new rocket. The Zuljanah rocket is a 25-meter (82-foot) three-stage rocket with a solid fuel … Continue reading

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“The majority of Jews interact with Judaism culturally”

UNPACKED How Israel Reshaped Jewish Culture Many Americans define their Judaism culturally rather than religiously. But with Israeli-Jewish influences becoming increasingly prominent, is there still a role for American-Jewish cultural life in the future? Or, to put it another way, … Continue reading

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Next up at your exclusive private school: “Assessing word problems in math and rewriting them to be more representative and culturally sensitive”

COMMON SENSE WITH BARI WEISS ‘Spirit Murder,’ Neo-Segregation and Science Denial in American Schools February 5, 2021 My experience over the past few weeks trying to tackle the story of the crisis in American schooling puts me in mind of … Continue reading

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Israel’s Defense Minister: ICC’s pretrial order claiming jurisdiction to open war crimes probe ‘has no basis in international law’; military vows to defend citizens, service members

TIMES OF ISRAEL Gantz to IDF: ICC war crimes ruling ‘a tool of our enemies’; we will defend you by Staff February 6, 2021 Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz on Saturday sent a letter to the IDF calling the International … Continue reading

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“Israel scarcely needs the absence of a phone call to tell it that it has a grave problem with the new occupant of the White House”

JNS Obama’s third term by Melanie Phillips February 4, 2021 Some people are fretting that U.S. President Joe Biden has not yet picked up the phone to call Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. They worry that this may betoken a … Continue reading

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“It’s sheer madness for a country of so many immigrants with relatives and businesses abroad to impose sudden, arbitrary flight bans”

TIMES OF ISRAEL Let our people come! by Dov Lipman January 31, 2021 This past week has been hell, as Israelis – mostly English-speaking immigrants – who were abroad for family and business reasons have been stuck there, unable to … Continue reading

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#Orwells1984 : “The latest illiberal proposals for curbing speech in the name of fighting hate or untruths are being cheered by some liberals. But among their targets could be Zionists and Israel’s leaders.”

JNS Don’t think a ‘reality czar’ would spare Israel and the Jews by Jonathan Tobin February 4, 2021 It’s easy to scoff at some of the latest ideas being floated in some prestigious quarters for new limits on freedom of … Continue reading

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Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World

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“Israel hasn’t vaccinated the Palestinians for the same reason it hasn’t vaccinated the Egyptians or the French. Like the Egyptians and the French, the Palestinians have their own government and their own health ministry that is responsible for caring for them”

NEWSWEEK Democrats, American Jews and Politically Correct Bigotry by Caroline Glick January 29, 2021 Israel is the world leader in COVID-19 vaccinations. By late January, more than 85 percent of Israelis over the age of 60 had completed the two-round … Continue reading

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“There is no doubt that Tehran will see Biden’s eagerness to re-enter the nuclear deal as a sign of weakness and it will try to extort the US accordingly”

ISRAEL HAYOM (by agreement with JNS) US all but admits nuclear deal has failed by Damian Pachter February 2, 2021 Monday’s statement by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken that Tehran could be “weeks away” from developing enough fissile material … Continue reading

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