Tag Archives: President Barack Obama

The Sun Sets on a Good Iran Deal

FOREIGN POLICY by John Hannah March 5, 2015 There’s so much wrong with the emerging Iran nuclear deal that it’s hard to know where to begin. But as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made clear in his speech this week … Continue reading

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President Obama, listen to Netanyahu on Iran

AL ARABIYA by Faisal J. Abbas March 3, 2015 It is extremely rare for any reasonable person to ever agree with anything Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says or does. However, one must admit, Bibi did get it right, at least … Continue reading

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Netanyahu Is Everything Obama Is Not

COMMENTARY by Peter Wehner March 2, 2015 A month ago, I referred to Barack Obama as “quite simply, anti-Israel.” Events in the last month have only confirmed that judgment. There are many arguments one could marshall to support that assertion, but it … Continue reading

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Relationship between President Obama and the press is more distant than it has been in a half century

COLUMBIA JOURNALISM REVIEW by Susan Milligan March/April 2015 ….An exhaustive study of every official exchange Obama had with the press corps in 2014, supplemented by a review of daily press briefings and interviews with more than a dozen current and … Continue reading

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The White House Must Respond to Netanyahu’s Important New Proposal

GATESTONE by Alan Dershowitz March 4, 2015 ….Instead of attacking the messenger, as the White House has done, the Administration now has an obligation to engage with Netanyahu in the marketplace of ideas, rather than in a cacophony of name-calling, … Continue reading

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Netanyahu bashes Iran deal, but no longer demands zero enrichment

TIMES OF ISRAEL by Raphael Ahren March 4, 2015 The speech had everything you’d expect: A solid case against letting Israel’s “genocidal enemies” anywhere near nuclear weapons, a cut and dried rejection of Western rapprochement with Iran, tributes to the unbreakable … Continue reading

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Obama needs to provide real answers to Netanyahu’s arguments

WASHINGTON POST The Editorial Board March 3, 2015 THE CONCERNS about a prospective nuclear agreement with Iran raised by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a speech to Congress on Tuesday are not — as the White House was quick … Continue reading

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You’ve Got a Friend (Iran)

PJ MEDIA by Richard Fernandez March 2, 2015 One of the reasons why president Obama can’t let Benjamin Netanyahu stand in the way of Iran’s nuclear ambitions is because he needs Tehran’s troops to fight ISIS.  Today the long awaited … Continue reading

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Administration denies Obama threatened to shoot down Israeli warplanes

WASHINGTON TIMES by Jeffrey Scott Shapiro March 1, 2015 President Obama threatened last year, according to Middle Eastern news outlets Sunday, to use the U.S. military to shoot down Israeli fighter jets if they attempted to destroy Iranian nuclear facilities … Continue reading

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As Netanyahu arrives, White House plugs Obama’s Israel bona fides

TIMES OF ISRAEL by Rebecca Shimoni Stoil March 2, 2015 As Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu landed in the US, and thousands of pro-Israel activists in town readied to go to bat for greater Congressional oversight on any Iran deal, … Continue reading

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