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The demise of the United Nations Relief Works Agency for Palestine Refugees is long overdue. Let’s hope that Commissioner-General Lazzarini is right to be worried.
The left doesn’t want separation of church and state. It wants the government to establish its secular catechism and crush all, including people of faith, who dissent.
It is presented to the public as a particularly shameful episode in the long history of Jewish persecution in Germany. There is no endorsement of the sculpture, officially or otherwise.
With her fellow Republicans seemingly unable to produce a coherent vision for America to counter the disaster of the Biden administration, a recent speech was pitch-perfect and received by her conservative London audience like rain in a desert.
Despite outrage about interventions in its own elections, America has often sought to influence Israeli politics. Expect Washington to pull out all the stops to try to sabotage Netanyahu.
As radical leftist ideologies set society on fire, what’s needed is an intellectual debate about whether classical liberalism or a rediscovered conservatism provides the answers.
The resignation from the Brookings Institute of former commander of NATO forces in Afghanistan Gen. (ret.) John Allen could have massive implications for Israel.
The only way around another political impasse, other than an overhaul of the electoral system, is for all eligible citizens to cast a ballot. This means curbing the purism and joining, not hovering above, the fray.
From the outset, it was clear that the coalition was destined to fail. Ultimately, the desire to keep Benjamin Netanyahu out of office wasn’t enough to keep a group that agreed on little else together.
The tour will focus on better relations with the Saudis and increasing the supply of oil. But these scorned allies have no reason to trust an administration determined to appease Iran.
Being in the crosshairs of Iranian assassins should be more than sufficient cause to cut short a vacation in Istanbul.