Most Clicked This Week
- UCLA Student Council: Omer Shem Tov event was “selective platforming” of an Israeli voice — with no Palestinian counterpart — that would “legitimize and normalize” Israel’s war in Gaza and bombings of Lebanon”
- AAA, profiting from so-called Occupation, bites the hand that feeds it. We're sure they'll want to return all that tainted money
- #SouthernPovertyLawCenter’s political “hate” and “extremist” lists being used to damage internet freedom and free speech
- "The Fatah-Hamas rift that has continued for the last 13 years has been constantly used as the excuse for the absence of elections"
- "Moving Israel to the Pentagon’s Middle East command could lead to progress on the Abraham Accords, experts say"
- When calls are made to unite to combat global Islamic terrorism, as in the aftermath of the Paris massacres, Israel, which is on the front lines of the battle, is simply ignored
- Son of Democrat Congressman Mel Levine: "Coming out as Republican worse than coming out gay"
- "According to Hebrew media reports on Monday, Israeli officials believe the release of Issachar from Russian prison is all but agreed upon"
Category Archives: Politics
“The Brexit referendum and ensuing uncertainty has seemingly not dampened the trading spirit, with Israel becoming the first country to sign a post-Brexit continuity trade agreement with the UK”
JERUSALEM POST Israel, United Kingdom building ‘new strategic relationship’ by Eytan Halon January 21, 2020 Israel and the United Kingdom are building a “new strategic relationship” driven by soaring bilateral trade and deepening ties in various sectors, according to a … Continue reading
Posted in Israel & Middle East, Politics
Tagged Benjamin Netanyahu, Boris Johnson, Brexit, United Kingdom
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“Likud supporters think that any government Gantz leads would be more likely to make the same blunders that Barak and Olmert made in the course of formulating generous peace offers”
JNS Gantz sends a message to American liberals, but are they listening? by Jonathan Tobin January 22, 2020 …But if he has any hope of breaking the stalemate that has left Israel without a governing coalition for more than a … Continue reading
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“According to Hebrew media reports on Monday, Israeli officials believe the release of Issachar from Russian prison is all but agreed upon”
TIMES OF ISRAEL Putin to meet mother of Israeli backpacker imprisoned in Russia – Kremlin by Staff January 22, 2020 Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet the mother of jailed backpacker Naama Issachar while in Israel for the World Holocaust … Continue reading
Posted in Israel & Middle East, Jewish, Politics
Tagged Benjamin Netanyahu, Naama Issachar, Vladimir Putin
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“Neda was among the millions of Iranians of all walks of life who had taken to the streets of Iran to protest the regime representative’s false claims of victory”
GATESTONE Iranian Women Defy the Mullahs; Western Feminists Nowhere in Sight by Giulio Meotti January 19, 2020 In October 1979, in a rare interview with Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the late Italian journalist Oriana Fallaci charged that the veil was symbolic … Continue reading
Posted in Islam, Israel & Middle East, Politics
Tagged Ayatollah Khomeini, Iran, Neda Soltan
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“Decades of incompetent budgeting and enormous but unfunded promises shove Illinois into insolvency, unable to pay bills as they come due”
CHICAGO TRIBUNE Repeating: Democrats, it’s time for Madigan to go. Editorial Board January 17, 2020 …Parents watch in chagrin as young people by the tens of thousands join an Illinois Exodus and build their futures elsewhere. Tax gouges relentlessly expand, … Continue reading
“In a groundbreaking New York Times op-ed, two prominent Reform rabbis describe the workings of a movement to demonize Israel now widely found in high school curricula across the nation”
AMERICANS FOR PEACE AND TOLERANCE Newton’s anti-Jewish curriculum scandal makes it to the pages of The New York Times January 16, 2020 …They identified the anti-Israel high school curriculum at Newton Public Schools as part of “a much bigger problem” across the … Continue reading
Posted in Israel & Middle East, Jewish, Politics
Tagged antisemitism, New York Times
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Trump to Europe: How badly do you want to sell cars in US market ?
REUTERS U.S. threatened Europe with auto tariffs over Iran nuclear program – Washington Post January 15, 2020 The Trump administration has threatened to impose a 25% tariff on European automobile imports if Britain, France and Germany do not formally accuse … Continue reading
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“Polish President Andrzej Duda’s decision to skip the Fifth World Holocaust Forum in Jerusalem next week, which top world leaders will attend, highlights the crisis in Polish-Israeli ties”
ISRAEL HAYOM (by agreement with JNS) Poland and Israel’s loss of diplomatic wisdom by Caroline B. Glick January 17, 2020 Next Thursday is supposed to mark another diplomatic triumph for Israeli diplomacy. On January 23, the Fifth World Holocaust Forum … Continue reading
Posted in Israel & Middle East, Jewish, Politics
Tagged Andrzej Duda, Benjamin Netanyahu, Holocaust, Poland
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“Millions of Israelis are willing to vote for a possible criminal because they see it as their only chance of curbing the legal establishment’s takeover of Israel’s democracy”
JNS Why do Likud voters support Netanyahu? Thank the Supreme Court by Evelyn Gordon January 8, 2020 Although Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was favored to win his Likud party’s leadership contest on Dec. 26, the magnitude of his victory … Continue reading
“Just like Trump’s unilateral push to overhaul NAFTA, he’s shown a willingness to tolerate some damage at home in the hope that the damage inflicted on the other parties would be far greater and force them to make concessions”
PROJECT SYNDICATE Is Trump’s Iran Strategy Working? by Mohamed A. El-Erian January 16, 2020 US President Donald Trump’s authorization of the targeted killing of Iranian Quds Force commander Qassem Suleimani is, in many ways, similar to his administration’s approach to trade. In … Continue reading
Posted in Islam, Israel & Middle East, Politics
Tagged Donald Trump, General Qassem Soleimani, Iran, NAFTA
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