Tag Archives: George H.W. Bush

“The 41st president beat AIPAC, but lost 24% of his Jewish backing after confronting Israel over the settlements; it’s a lesson US leaders since have taken to heart”

TIMES OF ISRAEL How ‘lonely little’ George H.W. Bush changed the US-Israel relationship by Eric Cortellessa December 1, 2018 Former Israeli ambassador to the United States Michael Oren once castigated Barack Obama for not abiding by the principle of “no daylight” … Continue reading

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“The best face that can be put on this unwillingness, bordering on a genetic-inability, of Jews to vote Republican is that Jewishness, if not Judaism, has at its center a hatred of injustice and a concomitant yearning for equality”

WALL STREET JOURNAL The Political Stupidity of the Jews Revisited by Joseph Epstein March 13, 2016 The story has it that during the George H.W. Bush administration, James Baker proposes to his boss an idea that would go against Israeli … Continue reading

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Destroy the ‘Islamic State’

NATIONAL REVIEW by John Boulton September 8, 2014 The recent military successes of the Islamic State, also known as ISIS and ISIL, and the ongoing disintegration of Iraq’s “central” government have created a strategic crisis for the United States. Barack Obama’s … Continue reading

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