Most Clicked This Week
- EVENT for Congressman Bob Dold; Baehr on Dold and Durbin
- CNN fires Marc Lamont Hill after he calls for a free Palestine "from the river to the sea" i.e. Israel's destruction
- "What 'Kings of Capitol Hill' (and others) get wrong is how AIPAC sticks to its principles even when they're inconvenient for either side of our polarized political scene"
- "A terror attack in the Negev ignites a long simmering issue. Has Israel lost control of the Negev and parts of the Galilee?"
- IDF Widows and Orphans Organization hosts communal bar and mitzvah ceremony under unique circumstances
- “AIPAC only has fig-leaf tours of the heartland, and of the hundreds of speakers at their yearly Policy Conference, there are few representatives from Judea and Samaria, and fewer sessions dealing with the topic of the “settlements.”
- “So, before Israel gets further lectures on what needs to be done, perhaps we should take stock of what’s transpired — and why”
- Today, Iranian money gushes into the coffers of Hamas and Islamic Jihad, and many analysts now believe Iran is beginning to influence the Palestinian Authority as well
Tag Archives: US State Department
On hold for now: Draft order on #UN funding called for “at least a 40 percent overall decrease” in contributions by US
NEW YORK TIMES Trump Administration Holds Off on Issuing U.N. Funding Order by Max Fisher January 28, 2017 The Trump administration is delaying its plans to issue two executive orders that would reduce funding to the United Nations and begin … Continue reading
Posted in Israel & Middle East, Politics
Tagged Donald Trump, United Nations, US State Department
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“The irony is that pretty much any taxi driver in Tel Aviv understands the Israeli-Palestinian situation far better than the self-crowned experts at Foggy Bottom, present or past”
JNS Jewish ex-State Department gang undermines embassy move by Stephen M. Flatow January 25, 2017 Someday, perhaps, a team of sociologists and psychologists will examine the curious question of why Jewish ex-State Department officials are obsessed with Israel. Until that … Continue reading
State Department Arabists “have been more systematically wrong than any other area of specialists in the diplomatic corps. This is because Arabists not only take on the cause of the Arabs, but also the Arabs’ tendency for self-delusion”
THE HILL Failed diplomat Kurtzer attacks America’s newest ambassador to Israel by Rabbi Shmuley Boteach December 20, 2016 A predictable pattern has emerged over the last several decades of U.S. Middle East policy. The State Department will urge the president … Continue reading
Posted in Israel & Middle East, Jewish, Politics
Tagged Daniel Kurtzer, David Friedman, Donald Trump, US State Department
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Hamas threatens Americans, who were warned by State Department to leave Gaza “as soon as possible”
THE TOWER Hamas Threatens Americans After State Dept. Labels Another Leader “Terrorist” by Staff September 19, 2016 A Hamas militant issued a thinly-veiled threat against Americans after the State Department officially designated a Hamas leader as being an international terrorist, The Jerusalem … Continue reading
Posted in Islam, Israel & Middle East
Tagged Fathi Hammad, Gaza, Hamas, US State Department
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Hillary’s pay-to-play at StateDepartment or as we say in Illinois, “conducting business”
ASSOCIATED PRESS Many Donors to Clinton Foundation Met with her at State by Stephen Braun and Eileen Sullivan August 24, 2016 More than half the people outside the government who met with Hillary Clinton while she was secretary of state … Continue reading
US State Department continues to refer to “construction in Jerusalem, Israel’s capital, as settlement construction”
ISRAEL HAYOM The new State Department assault on Israel by Elliott Abrams July 29, 2016 …The State Department’s criticism is politically quite stupid. It continues the Obama administration’s absolute refusal to distinguish between construction in isolated settlements in Judea and … Continue reading
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