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- “‘Lox and Loaded’ partnership comes as anxieties fuel interest in firearms”
- Former US officials blast decision to deny Pollard parole
- In Obama-speak, they're not "criminals" but "justice-involved individuals" (and Jack the Ripper was one of those “cutlery-involved folks”)
- "The great majority of Israelis, so violently awakened from Oslo’s delusions, have reconciled themselves to basic realities"
- “They amassed in Paris's Place de la République, carrying banners accusing Israel of massacring Palestinians and shouting 'dirty Jews' at their opponent”
- "President Joe Biden's Iran policy was conceived and is being implemented by the same people who negotiated the JCPOA under Obama, who argued in favor of empowering Iran"
- "A DC rally against Jew-hatred struck many of the right notes, but the poor turnout, combined with obvious divisions between left and right, illustrates the dismal Jewish crisis response"
- "The strategic paradigms that governed the Middle East for decades have shifted. Not all of them. Not fully. But the shift is real, larger than is yet fully understood, and Israel drove it"
Tag Archives: Foundation for Defense of Democracies
Chicago is ground zero of the BDS movement
THE ISRAEL PROJECT Officials in “leadership positions within the American BDS campaign” came from organizations linked to Hamas funding by Omri Ceren April 19, 2016 A “significant contingent” of the former leadership of “three organizations that were designated or shut … Continue reading
“From Abbas’s standpoint, this is his way of both thwarting his rivals in Hamas and securing his Fatah party’s hold on the Palestinian Authority once he is gone”
REUTERS With new decree, Palestinian leader tightens grip by Nidal al-Mughrabi and Ali Sawafta April 11, 2016 Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has quietly established a constitutional court that analysts say concentrates more power in his hands and may allow him … Continue reading
The Little Think Tank That Could
John B. Judis, the author of this Slate article, was profiled last year in The Tower by Joshua Muravchik in connection with Judis’ Genesis: Truman, American Jews, and the Origins of the Arab/Israeli Conflict. According to Muravchik, Judis thinks Zionism was “inherently … Continue reading
It Just Got Easier for Iran to Fund Terrorism
FOUNDATION FOR DEFENSE OF DEMOCRACIES by Jonathan Schanzer, Mark Dubowitz July 17, 2015 The more than $100 billion in sanctions relief is just one reason Tehran agreed to the nuclear deal. Its readmission into an obscure financial network is the … Continue reading
Foundation for Defense of Democracies conference focuses on our “frenemies”
Last week I was in DC for the two-day Foundation for Defense of Democracy conference. For such a young organization their range of accomplishments is very impressive. FDD analysts are tops in their fields and testify regularly before Congress, are consulted by the White … Continue reading
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