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- “Nothing says, “We protest racial injustice” like burning down the corner grocery or smashing windows to grab boxes of expensive Nikes”
- Matti Friedman: “To free its people, Israel negotiates with terrorists and releases murderers. Is that a strength or a weakness?”
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Category Archives: Politics
Gatestone’s Khaled Abu Toameh: “For the mainstream media in the West, the conflict…is only between good guys and bad guys. The good guys being the poor oppressed Palestinians and the bad guys are the Israelis” [VIDEO]
FRONT PAGE MAG Khaled Abu Toameh on the Life of a Pro-Israeli Arab-Muslim December 20, 2017 …I first met my friend Nina Rosenwald in Jerusalem and we were chatting and she asked me, “Why are you so unhappy? What’s going on over here?” … Continue reading
Posted in Israel & Middle East, Jewish, Politics
Tagged Gatestone, Khaled Abu Toameh, Nina Rosenwald
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“For decades, the United Nations has spit in the face of the United States” [VIDEO]
BREITBART Nikki Haley Nailed It: President Trump, Make the UN Pay by Anne Bayefsky December 21, 2017 …The demonization of the Jewish state – modern antisemitism – has been one of many UN policy priorities totally antithetical to American values … Continue reading
Posted in Israel & Middle East, Jewish, Politics
Tagged CNN, Donald Trump, Jake Tapper, Nikki Haley, UN Watch, United Nations, United Nations General Assembly
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The Bernie-Sanders-Republican Tax Bill: “According to the analysis of the Joint Committee on Taxation, the average tax rate goes down for every income cohort in 2019, and the share of federal taxes paid by millionaires will rise slightly to 19.8 from 19.3” [VIDEO]
POLITICO Nancy Pelosi’s Tax Apocalypse by Rich Lowry December 20, 2017 To listen to the Democrats, the American middle class will be lucky to survive the Republican tax bill. Nancy Pelosi calls the bill “monumental, brazen theft from the American … Continue reading
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“While Trump threatens to cut aid to countries voting against US, Israeli officials reach out to friends new and old in bid to weaken support for General Assembly resolution”
TIMES OF ISRAEL Israel, US team up to try to block UN vote on Jerusalem by Josef Federman December 20, 2017 Israel is intensively lobbying countries around the world to oppose a UN resolution criticizing US President Donald Trump’s decision … Continue reading
“Leaders of the North American Reform movement decried President Trump’s announcement recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital city”
TIMES OF ISRAEL Jewish Agency chief: Reform criticism of Trump’s Jerusalem move was ‘terrible’ by Staff and JTA December 12, 2017 Jewish Agency chairman Natan Sharansky on Tuesday lambasted the Reform movement’s critical response to US President Donald Trump’s recognition … Continue reading
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Tagged Reform Jews, Union for Reform Judaism
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The media’s reign of error: “If there’s a major news story over the past 70 years that the American media have botched more often because of bias and wishful thinking, I’d love to hear about it”
WEEKLY STANDARD While Truth Puts On Its Shoes by Mark Hemingway December 15, 2017 Covering the Trump presidency has not always been the media’s finest hour, but even grading on that curve, the month of December has brought astonishing screwups. … Continue reading
Jewish Social Justice Warriors: “In today’s climate, speaking the truth about those who do physical violence to Jews is itself called violence”
TABLET MAG And are we prepared for postmodern activism and the new realities of the Jewish people? by Josh Block December 11, 2017 …Yet too many Jewish leaders continue to fetishize a wonderful 1960s model of social-justice activism whose foundational values … Continue reading
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“The Defense Department has famously never been audited, despite receiving hundreds of billions of dollars annually and having more than $2.2 trillion in assets”
NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO Pentagon Announces First-Ever Audit Of The Department Of Defense by Bill Chappell December 8, 2017 “The Defense Department is starting the first agency-wide financial audit in its history,” the Pentagon’s news service says, announcing that it’s undertaking … Continue reading