Category Archives: Politics

Danish ambassador, JPost’s Caroline Glick exchange verbal blows over EU attitude toward Israel

JERUSALEM POST by Tovah Lazaroff December 12, 2014 Europe should apply a double standard to Israel when judging its actions compared to other Middle Eastern nations, Danish Ambassador Jesper Vahr said on Thursday, causing sparks to fly at the Jerusalem … Continue reading

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The Middle East realists: Old and new

ISRAEL HAYOM by Richard Baehr December 14, 2014 Professor Stephen Walt of Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of ‎Government and Professor John Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago like to ‎call themselves foreign policy realists. Realists are, in their … Continue reading

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Poll: One-state solution to conflict finds rising support in US

TIMES OF ISRAEL by Ilan Ben Zion and Ricky Ben-David December 6, 2014 A growing number of Americans back the idea of a one-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and over two-thirds of those surveyed in a recent poll published Friday … Continue reading

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How Far Should the CIA Go to Keep Us Safe?

RICOCHET by Herbert Meyer December 11, 2014 …..Option One: The CIA should not use any of these so-called enhanced interrogation techniques to stop an attack. I’d rather die. Option Two: The CIA should do whatever it takes to keep my … Continue reading

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Convicted Terrorist Bill Ayers to Iran Media: U.S. A ‘Terrorist Nation’

BREITBART NEWS by Jordan Schachtel December 12, 2014 Convicted terrorist and retired professor Bill Ayers sat down with Fars News, a state-controlled media outlet that serves the Islamic Republic of Iran, where he proclaimed that the United States is a … Continue reading

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Tortured logic the enemy

NEW YORK POST by Michael Goodwin December 10, 2014 A television documentary the other night featured American soldiers who fought the Nazis in the Battle of the Bulge, the last major German offensive of World War II. The soldiers were … Continue reading

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Magical thinking about the Palestinians

WASHINGTON POST by Jennifer Rubin December 10, 2014 …..For reasons we have discussed, the [Obama] administration presents a grossly distorted view of Israeli building so that it can appear “even-handed.” Israel sticks to a prior agreement with the United States … Continue reading

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Israeli Paper Responds to UNRWA’s Shocking Boycott Call

JEWISH PRESS by Lori Lowenthal Marcus December 7, 2014 Last week Chris Gunness, a spokesperson for the United Nations Refugee and Works Agency, had a lengthy temper tantrum on twitter. The object of that tantrum, the Jerusalem Post‘s editor-in-chief, Steve Linde, … Continue reading

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Releasing the Feinstein report is an act of exceptional recklessness

WASHINGTON POST by Michael Gerson December 8, 2014 With the release of the Feinstein report on CIA interrogations of high-value terrorists a decade ago, let’s consider the situation of intelligence personnel who have been involved, not in that program but … Continue reading

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Social Injustice Ate My Homework

NATIONAL REVIEW by Charles C. W. Cooke December 9, 2014 If there were a First Rule of our present penchant for victimhood, it would presumably be that everything unpleasant that happens in the world must, in some way, eventually be … Continue reading

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