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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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Egypt and Jordan tell Israel they must (again) release captured murderers in order to “advance peace”

TIMES OF ISRAEL Egypt’s Sissi said set to present Trump with Mideast peace plan by Tamar Pileggi April 3, 2017 Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi and Jordan’s King Abdullah II will reportedly present US President Donald Trump with a framework to … Continue reading

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Trump and that theory about “empowering” anti-Semites: “How media created the very climate of hate they sought to preempt”

COMMENTARY The Real Trump Link in the Threats on Jews by Evelyn Gordon March 28, 2017 The arrest of a Jewish American-Israeli teen for making hundreds of bomb threats against American Jewish institutions in recent months seems to put paid … Continue reading

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Among #Trump opponents, “Imagine the disappointment at the fact that the two arrests made so far have been an African-American and a young Israeli Jew”

ISRAEL HAYOM Political narratives collapse by Richard Baehr March 28, 2017 The past week had more than its share of big political stories — a London terror attack, the collapse (for now anyway) of the Obamacare repeal and replace effort, … 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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“The news that a Jewish Israeli teen was behind most of the 150 bomb threats to JCC’s since the start of 2017 is a shocking twist in light of months in which the ADL and other groups pointed their collective finger at the far right”

AMERICAN THINKER The Anti-Defamation League owes President Trump an apology by Thomas Lifson March 26, 2017 The Anti-Defamation League has disgraced itself, and defamed a friend of Israel and the Jews. By blaming President Trump for the wave of telephone … 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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Baehr: “A meeting between #Trump and #Abbas, with talk of peace and solutions to long-standing conflicts will for a few minutes warm the hearts of all the conventional foreign policy establishment thinkers in Washington”

ISRAEL HAYOM Trump the peace processor by Richard Baehr March 14, 2017 …Trump could be looking beyond Abbas, who is now serving a second term beyond the one to which he was elected, and instead could be raising the profiles … Continue reading

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