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While Turkey continues to woo Israel and insist that Hamas’s activity on its territory is strictly “political,” Israel’s security forces continue to thwart terrorist attacks and plots directed by Hamas-in-Turkey.
One thing at which the Turkish president excels is capitalizing on a crisis of his own making.
A Tennessee school board’s taking “Maus” from classrooms made it the target of national scorn. But attempts to link their foolish decision to opposition to critical race theory are misleading.
Not only is the Biden administration enabling the break-up of NATO, it is also destroying America’s deterrent power and superpower position.
As the idea of a “Jewish seat” once made clear, seeking diversity on the Supreme Court is defensible. But a process that is only about race and gender creates more problems than solutions.
Anything other than uncritical veneration of their political leaders is regarded with suspicion—or worse.
The Biden administration just can’t grasp the fact that tyrants and extremists regard compromise as proof of weakness and an incentive to redouble their aggression.
The May 2021 riots exposed Israel’s soft underbelly—thousands of hostile Arab citizens willing to aid Israel’s enemies during wartime.
The growing volume of lip service paid by the world to the memory of the Six Million is neatly matched by the complacence about or support for contemporary Jew-hatred.
Their growing capabilities have raised the threat of Iran’s unmanned aerial vehicles from nuisance to strategic level, on par with that posed by Tehran’s rockets and missiles.
No wonder Foreign Minister Yair Lapid is keeping quiet about his meeting with the P.A. “minister” in charge of civil affairs.
Many liberal Jews consider evangelicals a threat while giving a pass to liberal Protestants, despite the Presbyterian Church USA’s latest smear of Israel as practicing the “enslavement” of Palestinians.