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Bret Stephens: “What can’t be emphasized enough, especially among those who think of themselves as pro-Palestinian: If you want a Palestinian state to exist and succeed, you must also want Hamas to be humiliated and defeated”
NEW YORK TIMES For the Sake of Peace, Israel Must Rout Hamas by Bret Stephens May 13, 2021 As of this writing, terrorists in Gaza — the word “terrorist” fits people who take indiscriminate aim at civilians to achieve political … Continue reading
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Tagged Bret Stephens, Gaza, Hamas, Iran
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Bret Stephens: “Liberalism believes that truth tends to be many-shaded and complex. Anti-racism is a great simplifier. Good and evil. Black and white”
NEW YORK TIMES Race and the Coming Liberal Crackup by Bret Stephens April 26, 2021 …Morally and philosophically, liberalism believes in individual autonomy, which entails a concept of personal responsibility. The current model of anti-racism scoffs at this: It divides … Continue reading
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Tagged Black Lives Matter, Bret Stephens, critical race theory, Liberalism
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“A proposed curriculum magnifies differences, encourages tribal loyalties and advances ideological group think”
NEW YORK TIMES California’s Ethnic Studies Follies by Bret Stephens March 9, 2021 The first time California’s Department of Education published a draft of an ethnic studies “model curriculum” for high school students, in 2019, it managed the neat trick … Continue reading
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Tagged antisemitism, Bret Stephens, California
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#BretStephens on the corruption of journalism, woke politics and virtue signaling at the #NewYorkTimes (the very same publication that ignored the Holocaust and lies about Israel)
NEW YORK POST Read the column the New York Times didn’t want you to read By Bret Stephens February 11, 2021 Last weekend, New York Times columnist Bret Stephens wrote a piece criticizing the rationale behind the forced ouster of … Continue reading
Bret Stephens to President Biden: The US can achieve a lot “when it abandons decades of conventional wisdom regarding the nature of the Middle East’s problems and the solutions to them”
COMMENTARY MAGAZINE Memo to President Biden: Please Don’t Mess Up the Abraham Accords by Bret Stephens February 2021 … The prospect that the Arab–Israeli conflict, long thought to be the world’s most intractable, might be brought to an end much … Continue reading
Bret Stephens: “The purpose of a Palestinian state ought to be to deliver dramatically better prospects for the Palestinian people, not tokens of self-importance for their kleptocratic and repressive leaders”
CHICAGO TRIBUNE Every Time Palestinians Say ‘No,’ They Lose by Bret Stephens January 30, 2020 Regarding President Trump’s peace plan for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the instant conventional wisdom is that it’s a geopolitical nonstarter, a gift to Benjamin Netanyahu and … Continue reading
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Yoram Hazony – Bret Stephens debate at Princeton on the subject of nationalism among other matters
At 5:05 Yoram Hazony discusses “nationalism” and why he defends it; at 33:52 Bret Stephens articulates his defense of Pax Americana, “a state of relative international peace regarded as overseen by the US”:
NYT ‘editors’ note’ and rewriting the Bret Stephens column post-publication are examples of the Times spinelessly surrendering to the perpetually-enraged faction of its readers
ALGEMEINER New York Times Editors Falsely Blame Bret Stephens for ‘Mistake’ in Column on Jewish Genius by Ira Stoll December 30, 2019 The New York Times has published an “Editors’ Note,” inaccurately accusing the newspaper’s own star columnist, Bret Stephens, … Continue reading
“Bret Stephens, it seems, was offended by my lack of decorum online”
ESQUIRE I Called Bret Stephens a Bedbug. Then He Tried to Squelch My Freedom of Speech. What a Day. by David Karpf August 27, 2019 Bret Stephens is above me in the status hierarchy. He knows this. I know this. … Continue reading
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