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“The vice president’s critique overlooks a long history of Israeli diplomacy, compromise, and reluctant wars. But worse, it invokes an age-old blood libel”

CLARITY The Israeli Response to Vance Michael Oren July 9, 2026 …What they should have asked, “is JD Vance right when he said that Israel “can’t just kill [its] way out of solving every single national security problem that [it … Continue reading

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“The Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding tells Iran that Hezbollah survives and Israel leaves. The Trilateral Framework says that Hezbollah disarms and that, until it does, Israel stays in Lebanon”

GATESTONE Washington Handed Iran the Paper and Kept the War Pierre Rehov July 1, 2026 …Consider what each document asks of the same actor. The Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding tells Iran that Hezbollah survives and Israel leaves. The Trilateral Framework … Continue reading

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“Washington is drafting the rules of Israel’s self-defense – without Israel in the room”

MIDDLE EAST FORUM Micromanaging Survival Gregg Roman June 23, 2026 Don’t let the headline numbers — barrels, waivers, frozen billions — set tonight’s frame. The tell of the day is a small procedural fact almost everyone skipped: the United States … Continue reading

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“Israel made Operation Epic Fury devastating because it supplied the things American power often lacks on its own: intimate access, human intelligence, target geometry, and real-time knowledge of the regime’s military architecture.”

FUTURE OF JEWISH America owes Israel a thank-you, not a lecture Bob Goldberg June 20, 2026 U.S. Vice President JD Vance is worried that Israel is isolated. He should ask why. If President Donald Trump is now the only head … Continue reading

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“The vice president is trying hard to sell an Iran deal that hawks claim is weak while offering an olive branch to noninterventionists who opposed going to war at all”

FREE PRESS Vance Tries to Have It Both Ways on the Iran Deal Eli Lake June 17, 2026 Vice President J.D. Vance emerged this week as the White House surrogate in chief to sell the agreement with Iran to end … Continue reading

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“The mullahs believed they held all the cards when the ceasefire was called. But no permanent stoppage was possible without meeting U.S. demands”

FREE PRESS How Iran Wasted the Ceasefire Eli Lake April 12, 2026 The cliché about the Islamic Republic of Iran is that it has never won a war, but never lost a negotiation. Over the weekend in Pakistan, that diplomatic … Continue reading

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“United by their hostility to Israel, the liberal establishment, leftists and right-wing antisemites are hoping to capitalize on a disaster. But it could also backfire on them”

JNS Trump’s critics have a lot riding on the Iran conflict Jonathan Tobin March 2, 2026 Whether they admit it or not, a lot of people are rooting for disaster for the United States and Israel in the conflict that … Continue reading

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“When asked about antisemitism on the right, Vance has insisted that figures like Tucker Carlson are unfairly maligned and that the Republican “big tent” does not have an antisemitism problem”

COMMENTARY The Palestine Firsters Eli Lake January 2026 …The cease-fire that [Ben] Rhodes wishes Biden had tacitly accepted would have allowed the terrorists to keep the hostages they stole and would have made sure the Middle East remained in the … Continue reading

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“VP Vance says all are welcome on the right, including figures who promote conspiracy theories”

JTA Vance declines to draw a line against rising influence of antisemitic figures in Republican party Grace Gilson December 24, 2025 In the latest round of conservative infighting over the mainstreaming of antisemitic figures within the GOP, Vice President JD … Continue reading

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“When leaders like J.D. Vance and Kevin Roberts excuse Tucker Carlson’s embrace of extremists, they’re not defending the conservative movement—they’re burning it to the ground”

FREE PRESS The Moral Rot Eating the American Right Erick Erickson October 31, 2025 There was peace. And then, on October 7, 2023, there was war. We saw children murdered. We saw women’s bodies destroyed by gang rape. We saw … Continue reading

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