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“This marks a shift in the usual prescription for peace, since Arab leaders have repeatedly said that normalization of relations must come only after core issues are resolved and a Palestinian state is established with Jerusalem as its capital”

ISRAEL HAYOM PA official: Trump to launch unconventional peace plan by Daniel Siryoti May 25, 2017 U.S. President Donald Trump will launch an unconventional peace plan that is based on the 2002 Arab Peace Initiative, focusing on upgrading Israel’s relations … Continue reading

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“After weeks of confused answers, Trump admin breaks from decades of U.S. policy to back Israel”

FREE BEACON Trump Admin Declares Jerusalem Part of Israel in Major Policy Shift by Adam Kredo May 22, 2017 The Trump administration declared the president is in “Jerusalem, Israel,” on Monday for a series of meetings with Israeli officials, a … Continue reading

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“Throughout the Obama administration, US officials illegally leaked top secret information about Israeli operations to the media”

JERUSALEM POST Trump and Israel: Enemies of the system by Caroline B. Glick May 18, 2017 The United States is sailing in uncharted waters today as the intelligence-security community wages an all-but-declared rebellion against President Donald Trump. Deputy Attorney-General Rod … Continue reading

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“Arab leaders–unlike Trump–understand that Israeli-Palestinian peace is nowhere on the horizon…unlike the Palestinians, Arab states have abandoned the fantasy of an Israeli retreat to the 1949 armistice lines”

COMMENTARY Arab-Israeli Ties: Hostage No More? by Evelyn Gordon May 17, 2017 …But the WSJ story revealed something important about long-term trends in the Middle East–and for once, it’s unabashedly good news. Major Arab states have grown tired of having … Continue reading

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Obama-era Career Officers made “Western-wall-is-not-in-Israel” comments; Trump officials can’t seem to coordinate Western Wall messaging

BREITBART Trump ‘Delegation Members’ Who Made Western Wall Anti-Israel Comments Exposed as Career Officers Who Served During Obama Admin by Aaron Klein May 16, 2017 For the past twenty-four hours, the Israeli news media have been hyping a story that … Continue reading

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Evolution of the Left observed by a Former Member of the Left: “When you believe you are morally superior, when you have dehumanized those you disagree with, you can justify almost anything”

MEDIUM On Leaving the SJW Cult and Finding Myself by Keri Smith May 13, 2017 …I see increasing numbers of so-called liberals cheering censorship and defending violence as a response to speech. I see seemingly reasonable people wishing death on others … Continue reading

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“The question, at bottom, is whether Donald Trump has demonstrated, in his first four months, that he is unfit for the presidency—wholly unsuited in terms of judgment, knowledge, mental capacity, personal stability”

WALL STREET JOURNAL Democracy Is Not Your Plaything by Peggy Noonan May 18, 2017 …Here’s an idea. It would be good if top Hill Republicans went en masse to the president and said: “Stop it. Clean up your act. Shut … Continue reading

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Bibi: Moving the US Embassy to Jerusalem “would not harm the peace process” and, “on the contrary, would advance it by correcting a historic injustice”

NEW YORK SUN Tillerson on Jerusalem Editorial May 14, 2017 It is discouraging that at this stage of the game Secretary of State Tillerson is equivocating in respect of whether to move the American embassy in Israel to Jerusalem. It … Continue reading

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What does it even mean if Abbas “makes a deal” with Israel?

JERUSALEM POST ‘Abbas has decided to sign peace deal with Israel’ by Yaakov Katz May 12, 2017 Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has crossed the Rubicon and voiced “unprecedented” readiness to reach a peace deal with Israel, sources close to … Continue reading

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“Dangling reminiscent wisps of the invalidated Palestinian narrative will only encumber the moral clarity and credibility required to unwind the impossibly tangled diplomatic failure of the Iran nuclear deal”

THE FEDERALIST James Mattis Should Focus On Islamic Terror Instead Of Palestinian Grievances by Andrew Lappin May 9, 2017 …During his visit, journalist Tal Shalev asked [James] Mattis if he stands by his comments from 2013, when he stated Israeli … Continue reading

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