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Tag Archives: Charles Krauthammer
Krauthammer: “What began as an experiment has become the very heart of the Jewish people – its cultural, spiritual, and psychological center, soon to become its demographic center as well. Israel is the hinge”
JERUSALEM POST A Tribute to Charles Krauthammer by David M. Weinberg June 22, 2018 …Krauthammer understood that American Jewry was dying. “Nothing will revive the Jewish communities of Eastern Europe and the Islamic world. And nothing will stop the rapid … Continue reading
Krauthammer was about “conserving the institutions, values and temper of a free and humane world”
REAL CLEAR POLITICS The Unconfined Life of Charles Krauthammer by A.B. Stoddard June 15, 2018 …Charles, like all heroes, leads us by his example. In Bret Baier’s extraordinary 2013 Fox News special on Krauthammer, “A Life That Matters,” Charles’ describes … Continue reading
“The Jewish conservatives and ‘nation builders’ who led us into Iraq and Afghanistan bet the farm against Donald Trump, and lost. What now?”
TABLET MAG Bye-Bye, Neocons by David P. Goldman December 14, 2016 Israeli leaders of all major parties warn of two existential threats to Israel: a U.N. resolution forcing Israel back to the 1967 armistice line, and a nuclear-armed Iran. With … Continue reading
Posted in Israel & Middle East, Jewish, Politics
Tagged Bill Kristol, Charles Krauthammer, John Podhoretz, Noah Rothman
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January 20, 2017, US foreign policy will become one of the following: pacifist, internationalist, unilateralist or mercantilist
WASHINGTON POST The four foreign policies by Charles Krauthammer March 31, 2016 After dozens of contests featuring cliffhangers, buzzer-beaters and a ton of flagrant fouls, we’re down to the Final Four: Sanders, Clinton, Cruz and Trump. (If Kasich pulls off … Continue reading
Posted in Israel & Middle East, Politics
Tagged Bernie Sanders, Charles Krauthammer, Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, John Kasich, Ted Cruz
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A new strategy for Iraq and Syria
WASHINGTON POST by Charles Krauthammer June 18, 2015 It’s time to rethink Iraq and Syria. It begins by admitting that the old borders are gone, that a unified Syria or Iraq will never be reconstituted, that the Sykes-Picot map is … Continue reading
Posted in Islam, Israel & Middle East
Tagged Charles Krauthammer, Iraq, Islamic State, Kurds, Syria, Tal Abyad
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Charles Krauthammer on Judaism and Jewish Identity
MOSAIC April 17, 2015 The journalist Charles Krauthammer speaks about his Jewish upbringing, the Talmud, Zionism, secular Judaism, and his own faith. (Interview by William Kristol; video, 22 minutes.)
Posted in Jewish
Tagged Atheism, Charles Krauthammer, Judaism, Talmud, William Kristol, Zionism
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Do we really mean ‘never again’?
WASHINGTON POST by Charles Krauthammer January 29, 2015 …The Iranian bomb is a national security issue, an alliance issue and a regional Middle East issue. But it is also a uniquely Jewish issue because of Israel’s situation as the only … Continue reading
Posted in Israel & Middle East, Jewish
Tagged Auschwitz, Charles Krauthammer, Holocaust, Iran
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