Category Archives: Politics

Obama’s Ad Hoc Foreign Policy, West Point speech and his policy of retreat are characterized by smallness.

INDY STAR by Charles Krauthammer May 29, 2014 It is fitting that the day before President Obama gives his grand West Point address defending the wisdom and prudence of his foreign policy, his government should be urging Americans to evacuate … Continue reading

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The Disappearance of Conservative Commencement Speakers, Bloomberg Harvard speech excerpt on political correctness

FIVETHIRTYEIGHT by Harry Enten May 28, 2014 Former secretary of state Condoleezza Rice recently pulled out of giving the commencement address at Rutgers University after students protested. Rice was just the latest would-be commencement speaker to face criticism and withdraw. The head … Continue reading

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Pope Francis’s unfriendly visit

JERUSALEM POST by Caroline Glick May 28, 2014 The Golden Age of Catholic-Jewish relations seems to have come to an end during Francis’s visit to the Promised Land this week. ….Consider first Francis’s behavior at the security barrier. Reasonable people … Continue reading

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President Obama continues his retreat from Afghanistan

WASHINGTON POST Editorial Board May 27, 2014 YOU CAN’T fault President Obama for inconsistency. After winning election in 2008, he reduced the U.S. military presence in Iraq to zero. After helping to topple Libyan dictator Moammar Gaddafi in 2011, he made … Continue reading

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Europe’s Lurch Right is Bad for the Jews … and the United States

COMMENTARY by Jonthan S. Tobin May 27, 2014 The huge gains made by far-right nationalist parties in the European Union elections last week have a lot of people on the continent and elsewhere scared. The results threaten to undermine the hard won … Continue reading

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Washington Post Editorial Board: U.S. inaction on Syria helped make it a hell on earth

WASHINGTON POST May 23, 2014 RUSSIA AND China on Thursday vetoed a U.N. Security Council resolution calling on the International Criminal Court to investigate war crimes in Syria. Western powers and human rights group condemned the veto, and rightly so. … Continue reading

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Turkish court asks Interpol to arrest former IDF chief Ashkenazi, 3 others for flotilla raid

JERUSALEM POST JPost Staff May 26, 2014 Istanbul court orders the arrest of Ashkenazi, Merom, Yadlin and Avishai Levi, who are being tried in absentia for their part in ‘Mavi Marmara’ raid. A Turkish court has ordered the arrested of … Continue reading

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Brandeis Unbecoming: A New Video Defending Hirsi Ali, by Chloe Valdary

AMERICANS FOR PEACE AND TOLERANCE May 19, 2014 Brandeis University’s 2014 commencement ceremony was marred by Brandeis President Fred Lawrence’s disgraceful decision to deny Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the Somali-born fearless champion of Muslim women’s rights an honorary degree. Hirsi Ali … Continue reading

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In L.A., children of Holocaust survivors say ‘Never Again’ — with a gun

JTA by Anthony Weiss May 19, 2014 ‘We talk about defending ourselves, but we have to do something aside from sharing email articles,’ says president of the Children of Jewish Holocaust Survivors. LOS ANGELES (JTA) — It’s a sunny morning … Continue reading

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Obama, the Shoah, and Syria, the president’s hypocrisy about genocide

NEW REPUBLIC by Leon Wieseltier May 21, 2014 The love and the loyalty that I feel toward the United States is not only an expression of conviction. It is also an expression of gratitude. This country took in my parents … Continue reading

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