Category Archives: Politics

Washington said limiting arms transfers to Israel as ties fray

TIMES OF ISRAEL by Marissa Newman August 14, 2014 Obama-Netanyahu hold ‘combative’ phone call; White House, State said ‘blindsided’ by Pentagon’s supply of weapons to Israel, WSJ reports After months of worsening tensions, the US-Israeli diplomatic relationship has reached new lows, … Continue reading

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Terrorism Trial of Mideast Bank Worries the Financial World

NEW YORK TIMES by Stephanie Clifford and Jessica Silver-Greenberg August 14, 2014 The judge called it the Beirut account. It was a basic bank account at Arab Bank’s Al-Mazra branch in Beirut, Lebanon, unremarkable except for the name on the … Continue reading

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Obama’s Foreign Policy Indicted by His Own Team

COMMENTARY by Peter Wehner August 13, 2014 One sign of the disrepair of Obama’s foreign policy is the admissions and/or criticism being leveled at it not from Republicans but from those who have served in the highest ranks of the … Continue reading

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Meet the Jetstones. And they even liked Robin Williams.

STEYNONLINE by Mark Steyn August 13, 2014 Further to yesterday’s SteynPost on the Aussie schoolboy and the severed head he’s holding [tweeted from Syria, Khaled Sharrouf’s son, a child raised in the suburbs of Sydney, holds up the decapitated head of a slain Syrian … Continue reading

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Starbucks in Israel: The Grande Coffee Plan that Failed

TIMES OF ISRAEL by Jessica Steinberg August 13, 2014 Starbucks denies helping Israel financially. It’s not the first time it’s run into business complications related to the Jewish state. Global coffee giant Starbucks vehemently denied last week that it provides … Continue reading

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The UN Human Rights Farce Gets Worse

COMMENTARY by Jonathan Tobin August 12, 2014 Over the past few decades, the bias against Israel at the United Nations has reached the level of caricature. The disproportionate interest in anything that the Jewish state does matched with the world … Continue reading

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Flynn’s Last Interview: Iconoclast Departs DIA With A Warning

BREAKING DEFENSE by James Kitfield August 7, 2014 In this exclusive exit interview with Breaking Defense contributor James Kitfield, the outgoing chief of the Defense Intelligence Agency, Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, talks about metastasizing Islamic terrorism, his struggles to reform intelligence-gathering, … Continue reading

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CNN’s S.E. Cupp Succinctly Describes how Media Whitewashes Hamas [CLICK FOR VIDEO]

On Thursday afternoon, Crossfire host S.E. Cupp appeared on CNN with Brooke Baldwin to expand on a column she recently published in the New York Daily News, which criticizes the media for failing to mention that one of Hamas’ stated … Continue reading

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Michael Oren says he left CNN of his own accord

TIMES OF ISRAEL by Raphael Ahren August 12, 2014 Former ambassador to US denies being fired, says network exclusivity was impeding his patriotic duties during war Former Israeli ambassador to the US Michael Oren denied Monday that he was fired … Continue reading

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Are US millennials turning away from Israel?

THE HILL by Niall Stanage August 9, 2014 Young Americans are showing far less fervent support for Israel than older generations, but almost no-one can agree on why the change is happening, how permanent it is likely to be, or … Continue reading

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