Category Archives: Politics

Biden to skip Netanyahu’s speech before Congress

JERUSALEM POST by Michael Wilner, Staff February 6, 2015 Vice President Joe Biden will not be attending Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech before a joint session of Congress next month. A statement released by aides to Biden, who is usually in … Continue reading

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Scholars votes put Kerry dead last in terms of effectiveness

WASHINGTON POST by Al Kamen February 5, 2015 Secretary of State John Kerry, working diligently on some extraordinarily difficult foreign policy issues — China, neo-Soviet Russia, Islamic State, Iran, etc — isn’t getting even a tiny bit of credit these days … Continue reading

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Nuclear Dreams: Iran Now Controls Four Arab Capitals, Plus Washington, D.C.

TABLET MAG by Lee Smith February 5, 2015 What the burning of a Jordanian pilot reveals about Obama’s flawed Middle East game…The point of burning alive Jordanian pilot First Lt. Muath al-Kasasbeh was to outrage onlookers, including his family—but especially … Continue reading

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Friedman Spreads Anti-Semitic Libels About Netanyahu Speech

COMMENTARY by Jonathan S. Tobin February 4, 2015 ….as I have written in the last two weeks, I think the decision to give the speech was a grave tactical error on Netanyahu’s part. Congress was in no doubt about Israel’s … Continue reading

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Obama Does Have a Strategy

NATIONAL REVIEW by Victor Davis Hanson February 3, 2015 Once you see what he is trying to accomplish, it all makes sense…The Obama team — with its foreign policy formulated by President Obama himself, National Security Advisor Susan Rice, Deputy … Continue reading

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‘Zionist’-Hating Professor Who Tweeted Himself Out Of A Job Sues DONORS For Not Liking Him

DAILY CALLER by Eric Owens February 3, 2015 Steven Salaita, the world-class Israel hater who lost a job offer from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign over an expletive-laden Twitter rampage, sued the school late last week. In the federal lawsuit, … Continue reading

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Biden, other Democrats may skip Netanyahu’s speech

TIMES OF ISRAEL by Judah Ari Gross February 4, 2015 US Vice President Joe Biden and other Democrats may boycott a speech by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in front of Congress next month, as the administration stews over the appearance, … Continue reading

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My Evening with Sarah and Bibi

NAOMI RAGEN BLOG February 4, 2015 When I was invited to join the Prime Minister at his home in Jerusalem, along with other members of the English-speaking community in Israel, I expected to find myself in a large auditorium in … Continue reading

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A Speech Netanyahu Must Give

WALL STREET JOURNAL by Bret Stephens February 2, 2015 Even friends of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are second-guessing his decision to accept House Speaker John Boehner ’s invitation to address Congress next month on the subject of Iran, over loud objections … Continue reading

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Rabbi Shmuley Extracts Apology from J Street’s Jeremy Ben Ami on CNN

OBSERVER by Rabbi Shmuley Boteach February 2, 2015 …..There are a number of lessons from this exchange, none greater than the utter farce of J Street calling themselves a pro-Israel lobby. Here was the head of J Street getting on … Continue reading

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