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The foreign-policy establishment and its allies are circling the wagons around a Biden nominee. Amid arguments about tweets, his and other Obama alumni failures are ignored.
With the Biden administration having re-empowered Palestinian aggressors against Israel, Kushner has shown that he doesn’t grasp the significance of what he helped achieve with the Abraham Accords.
Resentment about the widely accepted IHRA definition of Jew-hatred has produced a revision from partisan left-wing Jewish scholars that gives anti-Zionists an unwarranted pass.
Polls show that the election is Netanyahu’s to win or lose. If he cannot form a coalition, it’s unlikely that another candidate would fare any better, although one should always expect the unexpected in Israeli politics.
Analyst Friedman observes that the establishment of relations between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Morocco and Sudan “could be game-changing.” Prime Minister Friedman wants to change the game by returning to the failed approach of trying to pressure Israel for concessions.
Netanyahu’s critics are again predicting the demise of democratic rule should he and a right-wing/religious-party coalition emerge from the next election. They’re still wrong.
The most that the staff of “Charlie Hebdo” will have to endure on the heels of the pathetic portrait of Queen Elizabeth is a slew of disgusted op-eds and social-media posts.
Farrakhan-supporter Tamika Mallory was featured at the music awards show. Blame this legitimization of Jew-hatred on the critical race theory embraced by Jewish liberals.
The Yamina and New Hope party leaders are hoping the attorney general will remove the leader they cannot defeat at the polls, but refuse to see that if he succeeds, all future elections will be irrelevant.
He talked about Israel positively while at the same time shining a light on the double standard that enables his government to cozy up to repressive regimes around the world, from Iran to China, while depicting Israel as a rogue apartheid state.
The aftermath of joint letters from both Democrats and Republicans about U.S. strategy to deal with the nuclear threat may tell us more about ongoing partisan division than anything else.
This has become a terrifying looking-glass world where morality has been turned back to front. It’s where in the minds of millions—particularly, the young—venality, disloyalty and spite register as evidence of moral worth.