Column
From his vantage point, the time between now and the March 29 decision deadline is one hell of a long time—a whole nine weeks, more or less, in which he will be under enormous pressure to declare precisely where he stands.
Republicans disciplined Steve King, one of their extremists. Democrats just rewarded Ilhan Omar.
Israel’s economic integration into the region is proceeding nicely without a resolution to an unsolvable conflict with the Palestinians.
The battle against Iran is not merely military. It also involves no small amount of psychological warfare.
The notion that the president’s critics are obligated to march with anti-Semites and Israel-haters are integral to intersectional ideology and presents Jews with a clear choice.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, as two Israeli leftists recently admitted, is far more moderate than his hardline image. But by portraying him as an extremist, the left has tarnished Israel among both American Jews and the Democratic Party.
Liberal Jewish groups are wrong to cheer court rulings that impinge on religious freedom because they deem the faith of Catholics or conservative Christians unworthy of protection.
Revelations about strikes on Iranian targets show that Israel has continued to step into the breach left by America’s refusal to act against threats from Tehran.
Hamas sources claim that Israeli intelligence used Palestinians to spy on the ISIS offshoot operating in the Sinai Peninsula.
In a harbinger of what was to come, under Hugo Chávez, Venezuela’s Jewish community of 20,000 shrank to less than 7,000, harassed out of their homeland by the anti-Semitic, “anti-imperialist” rhetoric of a regime that presided over the community’s economic immiseration at the same time.
The president is right when he says that Israel’s various border barriers work. But involving the Jewish state in this argument involves comparing apples to oranges.
The secretary of state’s repudiation of Obama’s policies and promises to resist Iran was on target, but the president’s decision-making undermines faith in some of his pledges.