Category Archives: Politics

“Thousands of Israeli Arab health-care professionals have been putting their own lives on the line by treating virus patients alongside their Jewish colleagues”

JNS Israel still suffers virus of hate even as it saves Arab lives by Melanie Phillips May 7, 2020 While countries around the world struggle to get on top of the COVID-19 crisis, Israel’s achievement so far has been remarkable. … Continue reading

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“Annexation of the Jordan Valley is a long-standing Israeli objective, going back to Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin”

AL-MONITOR Netanyahu’s Annexation Plan Can’t Be Stopped by Efraim Inbar April 29, 2020 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s plan to annex the Jordan Valley is not just a far-right wish, but the fulfillment of long-standing Israeli security objectives. Further, despite … Continue reading

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FDA confirms Abbott Labs and Roche antibody tests highly accurate; it’s time to quickly ramp up antibody testing in Illinois

WIREPOINTS With New FDA Action, Gov. Pritzker and Dr. Ezike Have No Excuse for Further Stonewalling Antibody Testing by Mark Glennon May 9, 2020 …The Food and Drug Administration last week published results from the first batch of COVID-19 antibody diagnostics … Continue reading

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“Sweeping bans on ‘non-essential’ procedures have left medical professionals idle and patients less healthy”

NATIONAL REVIEW Let the Doctors Work by Joel M. Zinberg May 7, 2020 Buried in the recent announcement by the Bureau of Economic Analysis that real gross domestic product (GDP) decreased at an annual rate of 4.8 percent in the … Continue reading

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“In a landmark ruling, Israel’s Supreme Court rejected all petitions against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu forming a new government while under indictment”

JERUSALEM POST When Judges Rule: A comparison between the US and Israel by Alan Dershowitz May 3, 2020 …Israel is a parliamentary democracy with an independent judiciary headed by a Supreme Court. It does not have a written Constitution, but … Continue reading

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“In San Remo, the League of Nations decided to turn much of the former Ottoman Empire into new nation-states: Syria, Iraq, Lebanon and Jordan all emerged from this process, along with Israel”

JERUSALEM POST 100 years since San Remo, when Israel became a sovereignty by Eugene Kontorovich April 30, 2020 The 1920 international conference in San Remo, Italy, is finally getting some of the attention it deserves. That conference created Mandatory Palestine … Continue reading

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“Ms. Tamimi openly takes credit for her part in selecting the site of the attack and has bragged about it multiple times.” 15 people died

EMET ONLINE Congressmen Greg Steube demands extradition of Ahlam Tamimi, known terrorist and killer of American Citizens, from Jordan May 4, 2020 Late last week, Congressman Greg Steube (Republican, Florida), sent a letter to Ambassador Dina Kawar, Jordan, demanding the … Continue reading

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“Biden remains a fervent adherent to the failed, groupthink-driven international consensus on resolving the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, which erroneously places the burden on Israel to make concessions”

NEW YORK POST Obama alums wrong on all counts in attacks on Trump Mideast peace plan by David Friedman May 4, 2020 The Obama administration’s approach to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and the Middle East as a whole, is best remembered … Continue reading

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Logan Act has “never yielded a conviction but invites abuse by prosecutors, cops and presidents”

WALL STREET JOURNAL Repeal the Logan Act by Charles Lipson May 4, 2020 …The Lo­gan Act is a dev­il­ish temp­ta­tion—to bad cops at the FBI, to bad lawyers at the Jus­tice De­part­ment, and to bad pol­icy mak­ers in the White … Continue reading

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Ban falls far short of a complete prohibition on Hezbollah allowing Germany to claim that it has banned the group even if it has not

GATESTONE Germany’s Partial Ban of Hezbollah: A Half-Measure by Soeren Kern May 2, 2020 The German government, after years of equivocating, has announced what amounts to a partial ban on the Iran-backed Lebanese terrorist group Hezbollah — Arabic for “The … Continue reading

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