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Obama strikes again

JERUSALEM POST by Caroline Glick July 30, 2015 Obama’s first hope was to reach a deal with his Iranian friends that would leave the Assad regime in place. But the Iranians blew him off. While Israel and much of official … Continue reading

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Congress Must Send a Message and Reject Disastrous Iran Deal

NEW YORK OBSERVER Editorial Board July 21, 2015 Iran advances while America retreats—that is Obama’s actual intent for the Lausanne Agreement ….Iran also wants to destroy Israel. This is not empty rhetoric. Israel’s existence on sacred Muslim ground—as the Iranians … Continue reading

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Will Israel save the world a third time?

ISRAEL HAYOM by Mudar Zahran July 21, 2015 As a Jordanian-Palestinian politician, I and many other Arab politicians and decision-makers have come to learn that Israel is vital for our own existence. In fact, Israel has saved us, and the … Continue reading

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Israel’s enemies already know they will lose

JERUSALEM POST by Yishai Fleisher July 20, 2015 If their goal to limit all of our strikes to a mere “proportional response” – we must hit them with overwhelming force which leaves no one guessing as to who is the … Continue reading

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In Syria: $36 million to train 60 opposition fighters?

LOS ANGELES TIMES by Doyle McManus July 12, 2015 A little more than a year ago, President Obama asked Congress for $500 million to train and equip some 15,000 opposition fighters in Syria, arguing that the best way to defeat … Continue reading

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A documentary that ought to rank with the footage of British troops liberating Belsen

THE SPECTATOR by James Delingpole July 11, 2015 Channel 4’s latest episode of Dispatches, Escape from Isis [which will air stateside on PBS], which includes secret footage inside the terror state, is TV at its most unmissable, says James Delingpole So … Continue reading

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The Druze Fight for Israel: Should They Now Fight Alone?

TABLET MAG by Ofir Haivry and Yoram Hazony July 7, 2015 The creation of a well-armed, autonomous, and perhaps ultimately independent Druze region in southern Syria may be the West’s best chance at stemming the spread of radical Islamism As … Continue reading

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A new strategy for Iraq and Syria

WASHINGTON POST by Charles Krauthammer June 18, 2015 It’s time to rethink Iraq and Syria. It begins by admitting that the old borders are gone, that a unified Syria or Iraq will never be reconstituted, that the Sykes-Picot map is … Continue reading

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In Palestine, Islamic State will replace both Fatah and Hamas

JERUSALEM POST by Abraham Miller June 16, 2015 Abbas’ Fatah organization grew out of secular ideologies. Its largest threat now comes from the growing fundamentalist revivalism sweeping the Islamic world. Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian Authority president, now serving the eleventh … Continue reading

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Israel Hopes to Use Current Lull to Prepare for Radical Islamic Storm

INVESTIGATIVE PROJECT by Yaakov Lappin June 12, 2015 If you ask defense officials in Israel today for a short-term security forecast, chances are good that you will hear an optimistic outlook and an expectation of relative quiet and stability. Yet a … Continue reading

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