Most Clicked This Week
- Bret Stephen's Israel stint taught him "democracies rarely muster their full reserves of determination until they’ve been bloodied one time too many"
- Israeli Superstar Gal Gadot tries to cheer us up but the knives are out: “Nothing like rich famous people singing “imagine no possessions” in their mortgage free homes as the rest of society queue at Lidl for broken biscuits”
- “The Rafah Brigade has been defeated. Their four battalions have been destroyed, and we have completed operational control over the entire urban area”
- ‘Are you a Jew?’ Arab Attacks on Jews nothing new.
- "The explicit goal of the Palestinian Authority and Hamas is the elimination of the Jewish state, not the building-up of a Palestinian counterpart"
- Roman colonialists invented the word “Palestine” in order to insult the native Jewish population with the memory of their ancient enemies, the Philistines.
- Israel reaches out to France before resumption of Iran nuclear talks
- Rafah Egypt-Gaza border crossing "track record conclusively disproves the widespread fallacy that Hamas is primarily concerned with the Palestinian cause rather than the cause of global jihad"
Tag Archives: Henry Kissinger
In one of the movie’s memorable scenes, Meir and Kissinger engage in a battle of wills over the Israeli prime minister’s kitchen table, with Meir forcing the exhausted diplomat to eat borscht
WASHINGTON EXAMINER Helen Mirren plays Golda Meir in a new biopic about the Israeli prime minister Sean Durns August 25, 2023 A decade before the rise of U.K. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, Israel had its own “Iron Lady,” Golda Meir, a 75-year-old grandmother … Continue reading
Posted in Israel & Middle East, Jewish, Politics
Tagged Golda Meir, Helen Mirren, Henry Kissinger
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How one chooses to celebrate Henry Kissinger’s 98th birthday “may well depend on their previous readings about the former Secretary of State and National Security adviser”
FORWARDKissinger at 98: ‘If it were not for the accident of my birth, I would be antisemitic’by Benjamin IvryMay 27, 2021 Those who appreciated Niall Ferguson’s hagiographical two-volume biography will applaud Kissinger’s role as the first Jewish secretary of state … Continue reading
The Iran Deal and Its Consequences
WALL STREET JOURNAL by Henry Kissinger and George P. Shultz April 7, 2015 The announced framework for an agreement on Iran’s nuclear program has the potential to generate a seminal national debate. Advocates exult over the nuclear constraints it would … Continue reading
Netanyahu Must Give That Speech
COMMENTARY by Rick Richman February 12, 2015 The importance of Prime Minister Netanyahu’s March 4 address to Congress extends far beyond its effect on his own country. That is apparent from the testimony of two former secretaries of state–Henry Kissinger and … Continue reading
Posted in Islam, Israel & Middle East
Tagged George Shultz, Henry Kissinger, Iran, Senate Armed Services Committee
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Scholars votes put Kerry dead last in terms of effectiveness
WASHINGTON POST by Al Kamen February 5, 2015 Secretary of State John Kerry, working diligently on some extraordinarily difficult foreign policy issues — China, neo-Soviet Russia, Islamic State, Iran, etc — isn’t getting even a tiny bit of credit these days … Continue reading
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Tagged Henry Kissinger, Ivory Tower Survey, John Kerry, Secretary of State John Kerry
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Is ISIS Distracting Us from a More Serious Iranian Threat?
THE TOWER by David Daoud November 2014 In its quest for global cooperation in the fight against ISIS, the U.S. and its partners are turning to Iran for help. But it is the ayatollahs, not the caliphate, that the West … Continue reading
Posted in Islam, Israel & Middle East
Tagged Henry Kissinger, Iran, ISIS, Islamic State
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