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No matter how hard the State Department crowd wishes it, the Palestinian Authority is not going to fight Hamas for control of Gaza. In fact, it’s not going to fight Hamas at all.
The Trump circus has become the media narrative, but like a lot of what this administration has done, replacing Tillerson with Pompeo makes sense.
It’s a dangerous game: Iran wants to force Israel into a state of perpetual check; in other words, paralysis before death.
No one could possibly believe that Céline’s words can be read dispassionately in France today, where anti-Semitic attacks of the most brutal kind occur with disturbing frequency.
Despite the current quagmires of the top U.S. and Israeli leaders, the public seems to be standing by them.
The leadership of the Democrats, as represented by New York Sen. Chuck Schumer, has now in effect joined hands with the leadership of the Republicans—and the majority of the American public.
Endorsing the traditional formula for peace was smart politics for AIPAC, but that doesn’t make it a realistic option for the foreseeable future.
Support for Israel shouldn’t be a function of partisanship. Here is the question: Will those on the left stand up for the Jewish homeland when political fashion demands opposition?
For decades, Israel’s court has been widely known to be one of the most liberal activist courts in the Western world. But Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked is single-handedly shaking things up.
Trump is the best thing to happen to Israel in recent years, after predictions that we had “lost America.” Between us, history will decide – not the studio pundits who miss the loud voice of former U.S. President Barack Obama. These are also the same analysts who explained that Trump wouldn’t win the 2016 election, and afterward explained with the utmost gravity that he would never recognize Jerusalem, and therefore never move the embassy.
Western appeasement of Iranian aggression won’t deter its genocidal intentions.
Though he promised to defeat the terrorists of ISIS, Trump also seemed to assure a pullback from the region. And while he criticized his predecessor for the success of Islamist terrorists, his approach to the Middle East now oddly enough resembles the continuation of President Barack Obama’s decision both to abandon Iraq and leave the people of Syria to their fate.