Category Archives: Politics

Kerry warns E.U. ambassadors that Security Council action on Palestine will embolden Israeli hardliners

FOREIGN POLICY by Colum Lynch December 20, 2014 Secretary of State John Kerry has privately told European Union envoys that Washington will not permit the passage of any U.N. Security Council resolution on the Middle East peace process until after … Continue reading

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The Hypocrisy of Solidarity – Gaza to Ferguson

TIMES OF ISRAEL by Kasim Hafeez December 15, 2014 As Ferguson, Missouri felt the full impact of waves of unrest which began with the shooting of Michael Brown, and once again flared up when Darren Wilson, the police officer who … Continue reading

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America Needs Its Rough Men

WASHINGTON TIMES by Clifford D. May December 17, 2014 ……George Orwell, a man of the left, is often attributed with pointing out that people sleep peacefully in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence … Continue reading

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Harvard’s President Stops an Anti-Israel Boycott

ALGEMEINER by Alan Dershowitz December 18, 2014 The Harvard University Dining Service has been rebuffed in its efforts to join the Boycott Movement against Israel. A group of radical anti-Israel Harvard students and faculty had persuaded the dining service to … Continue reading

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The Palestinians’ UN Charade Collapses

COMMENTARY by Jonathan S. Tobin December 18, 2014 In the end, there wasn’t much suspense about the Obama administration’s decision whether to support a United Nations Security Council resolution endorsing a Palestinian state. After weeks of pointless negotiations over proposed … Continue reading

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Chutzpah redefined

ISRAEL HAYOM by Sarah Stern December 18, 2014 In September 1993, when Yasser Arafat was recast from the role of “granddaddy of terrorism” to that of “peacemaker,” the Oslo Accords were marketed to the Israeli public and to world Jewry … Continue reading

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Your Free Speech at Risk – The Threat of Islamist Lawfare [VIDEO]

CLICK TO VIEW VIDEO In 4 minutes, The Lawfare Project exposes… – The Council on American-Islamic Relations’s (CAIR) crusade to suppress free speech in the United States – Intimidation of the media by the Muslim Brotherhood-linked Islamic Society of Boston, … Continue reading

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My Jewish Feminist Problem

TABLET MAG by Phyllis Chesler December 16, 2014 These days, Israel is far too dangerous a word to pronounce in a Western intellectual or social setting. Say it—and you risk uncivil argument. For example, it’s ten months after Sept. 11, and … Continue reading

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Obama’s Bailout for Communist Dictators

FRONT PAGE MAG by Daniel Greenfield December 18, 2014 ….The Castro regime is on its last legs. Its sponsors in Moscow and Caracas are going bankrupt due to failing energy prices. The last hope of the Butcher of Havana was … Continue reading

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Widening Democratic Party divisions on the Israeli-Palestinian issue

WASHINGTON POST by Shibley Telhami and Katayoun Kishi December 15, 2014 One of the startling findings in American public opinion surveys on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is the wide gap between Republicans on the one hand and Democrats and independents on … Continue reading

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