Category Archives: Politics

Abbas is offering us ‘collective suicide’

JERUSALEM POST by Yaakov Lappin September 8, 2014 Strategic affairs minister heading to US with intelligence officials for strategic dialogue on Iran nuclear program. PA President Mahmoud Abbas is offering Israel a recipe for collective suicide, Strategic Affairs Minister Yuval … Continue reading

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Pierre Omidyar, Glenn Greenwald, and Their War on Israel

AMERICAN INTEREST by Gabriel Schoenfeld September 9, 2014 When it comes to Israel, The Intercept’s coverage crosses the line from opinion journalism to a crude and vile form of propaganda. Pierre Omidyar, founder and chairman of the auction site eBay, … Continue reading

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CAMERA SCREENS The J Street Challenge this Sunday

The J Street Challenge  The Seductive Allure of Peace in Our Time Sunday, September 14th, 2014  7:30 PM Congregation Or Torah 3800 Dempster Street in Skokie, IL The J Street Challenge is one of this year’s most talked about, controversial and … Continue reading

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Naomi Wolf’s Embrace of Hamas Spells the Fall of a Feminist Icon

ALGEMEINER by Shmuley Boteach September 8, 2014 This Thursday, Sept. 11th, Naomi Wolf and I will be debating the question, “Is Israel Guilty of Genocide In Its War Against Hamas?” at the Manhattan Jewish Experience on the Upper West Side of … Continue reading

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Christians Respond to the War on the Jewish State

TABLET MAG by Rick Richman September 2014 As the attacks on Israel turn wild and violent around the world, perhaps it is time for those who do support Israel–Jews and Christians–to join forces? On June 23, 2014, two days after … Continue reading

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America’s neglected defense

WASHINGTON POST by Robert Samuelson September 7, 2014 You might have thought that the lesson would be obvious. In the past year, we’ve had an elementary tutorial in the uses of raw military power: in Ukraine, where Russia manufactured a … Continue reading

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Hamas-Backing Qatar, Also Funding Brookings Institute

ALGEMEINER by Dave Bender September 7, 2014 Questions are emerging over possible conflicts-of-interest after The New York Times highlighted Qatari funding for U.S. think tanks, including the Brookings Institute, employer of former U.S. envoy Martin Indyk, who was directly involved … Continue reading

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Rape and Rotherham

NEW YORK TIMES by Ross Douthat September 6, 2014 THERE are enough grim tidings from around the world that the news from Rotherham, a faded English industrial town where about 1,400 girls, mostly white and working class, were raped by … Continue reading

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The Dilemma of the Jewish Leftist

JERUSALEM POST by Caroline Glick September 4, 2014 During his yearlong captivity at the hands of the barbarians from Islamic State, Steven Sotloff’s colleagues in Israeli media organs purged all of his articles from their websites to erase his connections … Continue reading

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Yishai Fleisher interviews Matti Friedman [CLICK FOR VIDEO]

VOICE OF ISRAEL September 3, 2014 Journalist and award-winning author Matti Friedman joins Yishai in-studio to discuss his powerful article, ‘An Insider’s Guide to the Most Important Story on Earth,’ in which he writes about “the resurgence of an old, … Continue reading

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