Category Archives: Politics

Obama: “he is blind to how closed his mind is and how much he distorts reality in the cause of his meta-narratives”

COMMENTARY The Closing of Barack Obama’s Mind by Peter Wehner December 4, 2015 …No one is asking Mr. Obama to indict all of Islam or have America or the West declare a war on it. He should do neither. But … Continue reading

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EVENT: EMET Phone Seminar Wednesday 12/9 with investigative journalist Daniel Greenfield

ENDOWMENT FOR MIDDLE EAST TRUTH invite you to the Dr Miriam & Sheldon G. Adelson Phone Seminar with Daniel Greenfield “After the Paris Attacks: What Lessons can the U.S. Derive from Europe” Wednesday, December 9, 2015 2:00 to 3:00 PM … Continue reading

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Illinoisans Kirk, Lipinski and Roskam sponsoring new Iran sanctions bills

BUZZ FEED Members Of Congress Signal Support For States’ Rights To Sanction Iran by Rosie Gray December 1, 2015 A new resolution being introduced in the House and Senate on Tuesday seeks to support individual states’ ability to maintain their … Continue reading

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#BDS is hypocritical, misguided and does real damage to both Israelis and Palestinians. They’re also illegal

WALL STREET JOURNAL Those Israel Boycotts Are Illegal by Eugene Kontorovich and Steven Davidoff Solomon December 1, 2015 …The moral myopia and academic perversity of these [Israel] boycotts have been widely discussed. Less well understood is that in many cases … Continue reading

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How President Obama turned over control of America’s Middle East policy to Vladimir Putin

MOSAIC Our Man in Moscow by Michael Doran December 1, 2015 …Obama’s headlong support for the Iran nuclear deal and his pursuit more generally of a concert system with Moscow and Tehran have encouraged the rise of a Russian-Iranian military … Continue reading

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#BDSFail Hungary and Greece both say No to EU labeling rules

TIMES OF ISRAEL Greece to defy EU order on labeling settlement goods by Raphael Ahren November 30, 2015 A day after Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras visited Jerusalem, his foreign minister Nikos Kotzias sent a letter to Prime Minister Benjamin … Continue reading

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More misleading New York Times headlines on #PalestinianTerror. And NYT Jerusalem bureau chief Jodi Rudoren returning to New York

CAMERA BLOG Another Palestinian Attack, Another NY Times Whitewash November 29, 2015 For the second time in one week, a New York Times headline casts Palestinian attackers as victims. On Friday, two Palestinians who rammed vehicles into groups of Israeli … Continue reading

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The nexus between Identity Politics and anti-Zionism

ARUTZ SHEVA The death knell for Women’s Studies by Professor Phyllis Chesler November 29, 2015 The National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA) has just voted to support a boycott of…ISIS. No, just joking. The boycott is against Israel – only. The recommendation was developed … Continue reading

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In Paris, it’s easier to battle a “climate crisis” than confront jihadists on the streets

WALL STREET JOURNAL Liberalism’s Imaginary Enemies by Bret Stephens November 30, 2015 …The campus-rape epidemic—in which one in five female college students is said to be the victim of sexual assault—is an imaginary enemy. Never mind the debunked rape scandals … Continue reading

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It’s no longer called the Israeli-Arab conflict because it has shrunk to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

YNET Israel remains the Middle East’s only anchor by Guy Bechor November 28, 2015 …And so, for about two years, the American administration focused on us, focused on past, while the Syrian meat grinder expanded, Iraq collapsed, Libya turned into … Continue reading

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