Most Clicked This Week
- Yemen Jewish community under more duress
- "A low-tech, high-energy hour managed to be both perfectly silly and profoundly moving" (and it was almost 100% non-political)
- Bernard Zell Anshe Emet School Head responds to Chicago Contrarian criticism
- Trump order specifically highlights the activities of three chapters of the Muslim Brotherhood as a threat to the United States
- "Brexit, for all its drama, was merely a warning. The basic demand is for a moderation of the centralizing tendencies, unchecked immigration, runaway political correctness & metastatic government that have characterized the West in these last decades"
- Netanyahu announces easing of health restrictions
- IHRA definition of antisemitism "controversial" where it recognizes that double-standard criticism of Israel is actually Jew-hatred
- Have you heard the one about three guys (one of whom is the Son of Hamas) who go into a tunnel?
Category Archives: Politics
“The dreaded triumph of socialism in the land of the free suddenly looks dangerously real”
THE SPECTATOR Sharp left: the Democrats have taken control of America by Freddy Gray January 6, 2021 In the days following the presidential election in November, political centrists reached a hasty verdict. Never mind all the squabbling about voter fraud … Continue reading
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Flight over Gulf by two Air Force B-52 bombers was in response to signals that Iran may be planning attacks against US allied targets in neighboring Iraq or elsewhere in region
ISRAEL HAYOM (by agreement with JNS) US bomber mission over Persian Gulf aims to send message to Iran by AP and ILH staff December 30, 2020 The United States flew strategic bombers over the Persian Gulf on Wednesday for the … Continue reading
Posted in Islam, Israel & Middle East, Politics
Tagged Arab Gulf, Donald Trump, Iran, Qassem Soleimani
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Iran FM Zarif warns Trump to avoid Jerusalem’s ‘trap,’ says it will ‘backfire badly’ on Israeli ‘BFFs,’ amid heightened regional tensions between Tehran and US and Israeli allies
TIMES OF ISRAEL Iran claims Israeli agents ‘plotting attacks’ on US in Iraq to spark conflict by TOI staff and agencies January 2, 2021 Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif claimed Saturday that Israeli agents were planning to attack American … Continue reading
11.5% of Syria’s population–more then 12 million people–have been killed or injured since their “Arab Spring”
EMET ONLINE A Look Back at the Arab Spring, Ten Years On by Sarah Stern December 31, 2020 It is hard to believe that next week will have been a decade since Mohamed Bouazizi, a Tunisian fruit vender, set himself … Continue reading
Posted in Islam, Israel & Middle East, Politics
Tagged Arab Spring, Egypt, Libya, Syria, Tunisia
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“Rev. Raphael Warnock’s 2019 “Pilgrimage Statement,” in line with his earlier sermons, characterizes the Israel-Arab conflict as an Israeli offense against the Arabs”
JNS Warnock on the warpath against Israel by Alex Bernath December 29, 2020 While he’s now trying to hide it, the truth is, Georgia’s Democratic candidate for Senate, Rev. Raphael Warnock, has been known for vehemently anti-Israel rhetoric. Last year, … Continue reading
“Israelis celebrated the Pollards’ arrival. In contrast, American Jews bristled both at the news and the happiness with which Israelis greeted them”
ISRAEL HAYOM (by agreement with JNS) Pollard and the great Jewish divide by Caroline B. Glick January 1, 2021 The rift between Israeli and American Jews is palpable almost everywhere you turn today. The most glaring disparity surrounds how they … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, Israel & Middle East, Jewish
Tagged Jonathan Pollard, Donald Trump
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“Pollard and his wife, Esther, will live in Jerusalem. A source close to the family said the former spy will not enter politics”
JERUSALEM POST Jonathan Pollard: Former Jewish spy lands in Israel 35 years after arrest by Gil Hoffman December 30, 2020 Israeli agent Jonathan Pollard made aliyah (immigrated) early Wednesday morning, landing in Israel 35 years after he was sentenced to … Continue reading
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Tagged Benjamin Netanyahu, Jonathan Pollard
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“How can Israel maintain the required levels of societal calm, normality and tranquility within which economic activity and innovation can flourish, while at the same time engaging effectively in the long, open-ended struggle against those countries and organizations committed to its destruction?”
NEWSWEEK Understanding Israel’s War in the ‘Grey Zone’ by Jonathan Spyer December 22, 2020 …The purpose of Israel’s current, ongoing military campaign is two-fold. It is intended to disrupt and hinder Iran’s ongoing efforts to develop a nuclear weapons capacity. … Continue reading
“The presidential adviser/son-in-law was demonized as the Modern Orthodox face of white supremacism and all Trump failures, but his accomplishments should long be remembered”
JNS The most consequential Jew of 2020: Jared Kushner by Jonathan Tobin December 29, 2020 …Yet even if you count yourself among the legion of those who hated Trump, the glib dismissal of Kushner doesn’t stand up to scrutiny. Though … Continue reading
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