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Category Archives: Politics
Bibi: Moving the US Embassy to Jerusalem “would not harm the peace process” and, “on the contrary, would advance it by correcting a historic injustice”
NEW YORK SUN Tillerson on Jerusalem Editorial May 14, 2017 It is discouraging that at this stage of the game Secretary of State Tillerson is equivocating in respect of whether to move the American embassy in Israel to Jerusalem. It … Continue reading
Posted in Israel & Middle East, Jewish, Politics
Tagged AIPAC, Benjamin Netanyahu, Donald Trump, Jerusalem, Rex Tillerson
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Glick: “It’s hard to find any establishment types who aren’t completely committed to the delusion that the PLO is the answer to America’s prayers” [VIDEO]
JERUSALEM POST The PLO’s most powerful lobbyists by Caroline B. Glick May 12, 2017 …The Taylor Force Act is a popular pro-Israel bill now being deliberated in Congress. If it passes, the US will be barred from transferring funds to … Continue reading
Posted in Islam, Israel & Middle East, Politics
Tagged AIPAC, Caroline Glick, Taylor Force, Taylor Force Act
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Former AIPAC staffer Jeremy Wynes announces 10th District run [VIDEO]
JEWISH INSIDER The Former AIPAC, RJC Staffer Running for Congress by Aaron Magid May 12, 2017 While the 2018 Congressional elections are more than 18 months away, Republican Jeremy Wynes launched his campaign this week to represent Illinois’ 10th District. … Continue reading
Posted in Israel & Middle East, Jewish, Politics
Tagged 10th District Illinois, AIPAC, Bob Dold, Brad Schneider, Illinois, Illinois 10th District, Jeremy Wynes, RJC
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What does it even mean if Abbas “makes a deal” with Israel?
JERUSALEM POST ‘Abbas has decided to sign peace deal with Israel’ by Yaakov Katz May 12, 2017 Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has crossed the Rubicon and voiced “unprecedented” readiness to reach a peace deal with Israel, sources close to … Continue reading
Posted in Israel & Middle East, Politics
Tagged Benjamin Netanyahu, Donald Trump, Mahmoud Abbas, Palestinian Authority
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“The #Comey announcement was mishandled and reflected what we’ve come to take for granted as the routine chaos of the Trump White House”
NATIONAL REVIEW Stop Talking, President Trump by Jonathan Tobin May 12, 2017 …Trump’s words poured gasoline on an already inflamed chorus of political and media critics. Instead of hypocritical rumblings about Trump’s alleged motives for the firing, the Left now … Continue reading
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Forward breathlessly reports on Abbas-Trump meeting: “the two struck up a kind of “chemistry” that could lead to a peace breakthrough”
FORWARD Did Right Wingers Ruin Ron Lauder’s Dinner With Mahmoud Abbas? by Naomi Zeveloff May 9, 2017 Ron Lauder, cosmetics heir and president of the World Jewish Congress, prepped Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas for his meeting with President Trump last … Continue reading
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Tagged Donald Trump, Forward, Mahmoud Abbas, Ronald Lauder
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“Republican and Democratic partisans often resort to the criminal law as a way of demonizing their political enemies”
GATESTONE President Trump Did Not Obstruct Justice by Alan M. Dershowitz May 11, 2017 An absurd argument is now being put forward by some Democratic ideologues: namely that President Trump engaged in the crime of obstructing justice by firing FBI … Continue reading
“Increasingly, the orientation of many American Jews toward Israel is one neither of instinctive loyalty nor of pride but of indifference, embarrassment, or hostility”
MOSAIC MAG Why Many American Jews Are Becoming Indifferent or Even Hostile to Israel by Daniel Gordis May 8, 2017 …In brief, the group growing most disconnected from Israel is composed of younger, politically more left-leaning, and religiously less traditionalist … Continue reading
Consider yourself lucky it’s not 1916
WASHINGTON POST Think you’re living in a ‘hellhole’ today? Try being a billionaire in 1916. by George F. Will May 5, 2017 …If in 1916 you suffered from depression, bipolar disorder, a sexually transmitted disease or innumerable other ailments treatable … Continue reading
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“Europe today has little desire to reproduce itself, fight for itself or even take its own side in an argument”
GATESTONE Europe’s Childless Leaders Sleepwalking Us to Disaster by Giulio Meotti May 6, 2017 There have never been so many childless politicians leading Europe as today. They are modern, open minded and multicultural and they know that “everything finishes with … Continue reading
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