Category Archives: Politics

Is the World Becoming Fed Up?

PJ MEDIA by Victor Davis Hanson July 5, 2015 Given European socialism, and given its therapeutic culture that assumes morality is relative and situational, it is quite stunning — especially to the Greeks — that suddenly debts are to mean not … Continue reading

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Welcome to John Roberts’ America, Where Words Mean Nothing

DAILY SIGNAL by Kim Holmes July 5, 2015 Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia’s lament last week that “words no longer have meaning” got me to thinking. I don’t claim to know Chief Justice John Roberts’ motivations in deciding in favor … Continue reading

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Israel losing Democrats, ‘can’t claim bipartisan US support,’ top pollster warns

TIMES OF ISRAEL by David Horovitz July 5, 2015 New survey by Frank Luntz shows almost half of active Democrats think Israel is racist, barely half believe it wants peace, and three quarters feel it has too much influence on … Continue reading

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Europe’s Crisis Proves Israel is No ‘Anachronism’

JNS.ORG by Ben Cohen July 3, 2015 Back in 2003, as some readers will recall all too clearly, the noted historian Tony Judt penned a searing critique of Israel in the New York Review of Books. Titled “Israel: The Alternative,” … Continue reading

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The ‘humanitarian aid’ aboard a recent flotilla to Gaza fit in two cardboard boxes

WASHINGTON POST by William Booth July 1, 2015 Pro-Palestinian activists aboard a Swedish vessel tried and failed to punch through Israel’s maritime blockade of Gaza this week. Israeli commandos boarded the vessel, searched the ship and brought it to an … Continue reading

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Anti-Israel movement based on fallacies

CHICAGO SUN TIMES by Steve Huntley July 1, 2015 The Obama administration rarely misses an opportunity to take a swipe at Israel. This week President Barack Obama signed the fast track trade bill that includes admirable language rejecting the unjust … Continue reading

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It’s time to stop demonizing Michael Oren

TIMES OF ISRAEL by Yossi Klein Halevi July 4, 2015 My friend has been called everything from a publicity hound to a virtual traitor. But he is one of the Jewish people’s most selfless public servants, and he wrote ‘Ally’ … Continue reading

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From Doubles Tennis to Internet Porn: My Year as a Supreme Court Clerk

Ted Cruz, while controversial, is considered by many to possess a brilliant legal mind. A graduate of Princeton University cum laude, Cruz also graduated Harvard Law School magna cum laude, was editor of Harvard Law Review. Referring to Cruz — the student … Continue reading

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I Spent Two Weeks Talking With Israelis. Here’s What They Had To Say About President Obama and Iran.

IJR Review by Professor William Jacobson July 1, 2015 ….My wife and I traveled from the Lebanese to Gaza borders, and much of what was in between. We visited with a survivor of a school bus bombing, the families of … Continue reading

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UN Gaza report incentivizes terror, military experts warn

Thank goodness the United Nations Human Rights Council has such fair-minded unbiased members hard at work, funded to a great extent by US taxpayers. UN WATCH July 1, 2015 Saudi Arabia: “Israel is the worst racist regime in the world. Israel is … Continue reading

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