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“The new AT age — “After Trump” — began on either Election Day, Nov. 3, or on Inauguration Day, Jan. 20. But either way, reality as we had known it for four years has been abruptly reinvented”

TOWNHALL The ‘After Trump’ Era Begins by Victor Davis Hanson January 28, 2021 …Pfizer had hinted that a vaccine could be ready in late October. Then, mysteriously, it wasn’t. Then, stranger still, it appeared — a few days after Election … Continue reading

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“Earlier this month, the organization B’Tselem issued an eight-page paper that declares the Jewish state guilty of apartheid. It’s absurd”

THE FEDERALIST No, ‘Jewish Supremacism’ Does Not Define Israel by Dexter Van Zile January 26, 2021 Newly elected U.S. President Joseph Biden is reportedly preparing to hit the reset button with the Palestinian Authority, whose President Mahmoud Abbas severed ties … Continue reading

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Biden administration needs to send a consistent message to the Iranian regime about its misbehavior

BLOOMBERG Biden’s First Foreign Policy Blunder Could Be on Iran by Eli Lake January 21, 2021 President Joe Biden has done a good job so far of calming the anxieties of allies that the U.S. will rush into negotiations to … Continue reading

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How far will Biden go to please the Left?

REAL CLEAR POLITICS Biden’s Biggest Decision by Charles Lipson January 25, 2021 Joe Biden’s new administration faces a murderers’ row of hard decisions on everything from controlling the Southern border to dealing with Iran. But one choice dominates all of … Continue reading

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Bret Stephens to President Biden: The US can achieve a lot “when it abandons decades of conventional wisdom regarding the nature of the Middle East’s problems and the solutions to them”

COMMENTARY MAGAZINE Memo to President Biden: Please Don’t Mess Up the Abraham Accords by Bret Stephens February 2021 … The prospect that the Arab–Israeli conflict, long thought to be the world’s most intractable, might be brought to an end much … Continue reading

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“As U.S.-Israel relations gear up for a great reset, the Obama administration’s parting shot may be the starting point for the Biden administration”

JNS The changing of the guard in US-Israel relations by Alex Traiman January 20, 2021 Like many American policies now expected to undergo an about-face following the inauguration of 46th President Joe Biden, U.S.-Israel relations may be gearing up for … Continue reading

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“It is now a social imperative to distance oneself from President Donald Trump, if not to revile him”

NEWSWEEK After Trump, Israel’s Claim To Truth Is Stronger by Yishai Fleisher January 19, 2021 …As The Times of Israel’s David Horovitz has written: “Israel’s White House ally is a figure of shame, and all who have celebrated associating with … Continue reading

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Martin Peretz: “The Biden administration is not in my view going to jerk Middle Eastern policy back to the Obama track”

ALGEMEINER Obama’s Failure, Biden’s New Team, and the Future of the Israeli-Palestinian Divide by Martin Peretz December 24, 2020 …In 2016, John Kerry said to a Brookings audience, “I’ve talked to leaders in the Arab community. There will be no … Continue reading

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“Even if a peace agreement is not officially announced, relations between Israel and Saudi Arabia are at their peak, especially given the Iranian threat and concerns over other radical Islamic elements in the region”

JNS The Saudi dilemma by Shahar Klaiman December 20, 2020 The peace deal with Morocco is the fourth accord between Israel and an Arab state to sideline the Palestinian issue. While the leaders of Abu Dhabi, Manama and Khartoum had … Continue reading

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The Biden administration has the chance to end the division between the parties about support for the Jewish state. Will they ?

JNS Can the bipartisan consensus on Israel be revived? by Jonathan S. Tobin December 17, 2020 One of the standard laments of the organized American Jewish world in recent years has been the decline and fall of the bipartisan consensus … Continue reading

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