Tag Archives: Barack Obama

“For the world’s most dangerously ambitious and threatening tyrannies — from Russia to China, from North Korea to Iran — Obama’s neutering of American power over the past eight years created a host of opportunities that they eagerly seized”

THE HILL Trump juggles the foreign policy balls Obama dropped by Claudia Rosett April 16, 2017 The Trump administration is taking heat for striking a Syrian air base with Tomahawk missiles and hitting ISIS terrorists in Afghanistan with a MOAB, … Continue reading

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Looking back at the #Obama years, “an accounting of the Democrats’ legacy in the Middle East, and where they can go from here”

TABLET MAG Obama’s Ghosts by Martin Peretz April 12, 2017 …[Michael] Oren is a diplomat, both politically and psychologically. He veers away from hysteria, Jewish hysteria especially, about anti-Semitism in America or about Israel. But since the publication of his memoir … Continue reading

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“The Russia story is a replay of how the former White House smeared pro-Israel activists in the lead-up to the Iran Deal”

TABLET MAG The Obama Administration Allegedly Spied on Pro-Israel Activists. Did They Do the Same to Trump? by Lee Smith April 5, 2017 …During the long and contentious lead-up to the Iran Deal the Israeli ambassador was regularly briefing senior … Continue reading

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VDH: “Trump seems radical only to the radicals who aim to take America far, far left”

NATIONAL REVIEW Journey to the Center of the Country by Victor Davis Hanson April 4, 2017 …Trump seeks to finish the border wall that was authorized and started by others. And he is called nativist, racist, and worse, largely because … Continue reading

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Which begs the question, what changed? “The American Left always felt that Russia was unduly demonized by the American Right and was a natural friend, if not potential ally, of the United States”

NATIONAL REVIEW The Russian Farce by Victor Davis Hanson March 28, 2017 Remember when Obama and Hillary cozied up to Putin? And recall when the media rejoiced at surveillance leaks about Team Trump? The American Left used to lecture the … Continue reading

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Trump’s approach to Iran, Syria, and Israel “looks a lot like the old president’s—because the same people are implementing it”

TABLET MAG Will Obama’s Foreign Policy Wizards Save Trump? by Lee Smith March 15, 2017 After excoriating Barack Obama’s foreign policy, including his realignment in the Middle East, Trump has yet to nominate any officials below the cabinet level at … Continue reading

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“The prime global antisemitic threat emanates not from neo-Nazis but from the witches’ brew of far-left and Muslim anti-Jewish incitement, which has transformed many American university campuses into hotbeds of antisemitism”

JERUSALEM POST American Liberal Jewish Leaders Fuel Antisemitism by Isi Leibler March 15, 2017 …Alas, the reality is that in promoting their personal political agenda and vulgarizing and demonizing Trump while posing as Jews motivated by religious principles, they [American … Continue reading

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“Had Netanyahu informed the public, the knowledge that Obama administration was backing Hamas would have caused mass demoralization and panic”

JERUSALEM POST The Lessons of the Hamas War by Caroline B. Glick March 2, 2017 …America’s support for Hamas was expressed at the earliest stages of the war when then-secretary of state John Kerry demanded that Israel accept an immediate … Continue reading

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The false narrative of the “Trump antisemitism surge”: There’s not an antisemitic wave sweeping the US

ALGEMEINER Why Were the 7,000 Antisemitic Incidents Under Obama Largely Ignored? by Seth Frantzman March 1, 2017 …There were 1,211 antisemitic incidents in Obama’s first year in office. This was after four straight years of declining antisemitism. For instance, in 2008, there … Continue reading

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Bibi-Trump meeting: “Not only have the eight years of the Obama administration become history, even Bill Clinton’s era now sounds obsolete and detached from reality”

ISRAEL HAYOM Trump is good for the Jews by Boaz Bismuth February 16, 2017 If anyone had any doubt that U.S. President Donald Trump would be good for Israel, the press conference in the White House before his meeting with Prime … Continue reading

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