Most Clicked This Week
- Braun launched into an antisemitic rant after attacking the menorah, telling those who berated him that they were the ones who should feel “ashamed to participate in the acts of a Satanic Talmudic cult.”
- Bullets and Bagels: The Jewish shooting club
- “Of course, it’s a good time; there’s never been a bad time to buy in Israel. It’s not just a financial investment but an emotional and spiritual one, too”
- Washington continues to call for a single Palestinian state - but there are no real prospects for one
- “Whites are being asked to "repair" the slavery of the 18th century while turning a blind eye to the slavery of the 21st century”
- Fatality named as Staff Sgt. Shilo Yosef Amir; Hamas claims responsibility for attack near Kedumim, west of Nablus, says it was a response to major IDF operation in Jenin this week
- "In the EU, Ireland became one of Israel’s harshest critics: the country’s very success made it undeserving of sympathy"
- Medoff: "There is a common thread to all these attacks, whether the target is Jews in general, Jewish bankers, Jewish publishers or the Jewish state — no matter who happens to be Israel's prime minister at any given time"
Tag Archives: James Mattis
“Plausible deniability” for last week’s Russian-US assault
BLOOMBERG Don’t Be Fooled: Russia Attacked U.S. Troops in Syria by Eli Lake February 16, 2018 If you’ve been listening just to the Kremlin and the Pentagon, you probably didn’t know that Russia attacked American forces and their allies in … Continue reading
Posted in Islam, Israel & Middle East, Politics
Tagged Iran, James Mattis, Russia, Syria
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Trump “stopped short of withdrawing from the deal reached between the U.S., Iran and five other world powers”
THE ATLANTIC Trump Isn’t Certifying the Iran Deal—What Happens Next? by Uri Friedman October 13, 2017 On Friday, the Trump administration announced that it will not certify the nuclear deal that Barack Obama’s government struck with Iran and other world powers. Critics … Continue reading
Posted in Islam, Israel & Middle East, Politics
Tagged Benjamin Netanyahu, Donald Trump, Iran, James Mattis, JCPOA, Nikki Haley
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“Trump team obsessing over Thucydides, the ancient historian who wrote a seminal tract on war”
POLITICO Why the White House Is Reading Greek History by Michael Crowley June 21, 2017 The Trump White House isn’t known as a hot spot for Ivy League intellectuals. But last month, a Harvard academic slipped into the White House … Continue reading
Posted in Politics
Tagged Athens, Donald Trump, Graham Allison, H.R. McMaster, James Mattis, Peloponnesian War, Sparta, Thucydides
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“Intolerance of faith and ignorance of religion means that our first liberty — religious liberty — is typed with scare quotes, as if assertions of this fundamental freedom were somehow inherently bigoted and disingenuous”
NATIONAL REVIEW On This Memorial Day, We Are Unmaking America by David French May 29, 2017 …I fear that General Mattis is right. There is a profound lack of unity in America. In fact, let’s ask a key question: Is … Continue reading
“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
Posted in Islam, Israel & Middle East
Tagged Apartheid, Donald Trump, James Mattis, Palestinian
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Mattis in Israel: “As far as Centcom is concerned, Israel is not part of the Middle East. Israel is in Europe”
JERUSALEM POST General Mattis and the Fatah tautology by Caroline B. Glick April 19, 2017 …[General[ Mattis is reputedly a very smart, well-read man. And yet, his claims show that despite his intelligence, he has a stunning lack of intellectual curiosity … Continue reading
Posted in Israel & Middle East, Jewish, Politics
Tagged James Mattis, Mad Dog Mattis, Secretary of Defense
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