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“They will hate us for free,” said Rep. Tim Burchett, who sponsored the legislation. “We do not need to give them hard-earned American tax dollars.”
“A satellite state of Iran. Is this what the progressive movements of the Western left want to create?” the author asked.
Earlier this year, the co-host of “The View” sparked a controversy when she denied the Nazis’ racist motives.
The meeting comes just weeks after Israeli media reported that Taliban officials favored establishing diplomatic relations between Afghanistan and Israel.
“The return of the Taliban in Afghanistan after the American withdrawal from that country puts Afghanistan’s Islamists in a leadership role among radical Islamists worldwide, as opposed to Islam’s traditional heartland in the Middle East,” explains former Pakistani Ambassador to the U.S. Husain Haqqani.
The effort to help 62-year-old Zebulon Simantov resulted in getting out the Afghan women’s soccer team, a group of women judges, and 30 members of his neighbors’ families.
“When troubling events such as the situation in Afghanistan occur in the world, we have an obligation to act as leaders,” said Aaron Frenkel.
What began as Israeli intelligence assistance against Al-Qaeda grew into larger cooperation against ISIS • Devastating attacks transformed America’s view of international terrorism • Whether Afghanistan again turns into Sunni terror hub an open question.
Prof. Eyal Zisser of Tel Aviv University tells JNS that Hezbollah and Hamas are building on events in Afghanistan for morale but are realistic enough to avoid initiating war with Israel at this time.
“I believe that Iran will have concluded the Biden team is not first-rate and wants to avoid confrontations, so Iran is more likely to test them now than it was six months ago,” said Elliott Abrams, who served as Special Representative for Iran and Venezuela during the Donald Trump administration.
Senior researcher at the International Institute for Counter-Terrorism Michael Barak said that Al-Qaeda’s propaganda chatter has risen dramatically along with the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan.