Analysis
Thursday, December 26th 2024
Walter Russel Mead WSJ, Dec. 23, 2024 “Ironically, Team Biden ended up serving as pallbearers at the funeral of a Middle East policy it hoped to save.” The consequences of Bashar al-Assad’s fall from power in Syria will reverberate for years across the Middle East, but one great fact is already clear. The Obama era in […]
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Joshua Muravchik Commentary Magazine, January 2025 “One cardinal feature of Obama’s legacy, although not in the realm of international policy, nonetheless reverberated in attitudes toward Israel. That was his encouragement of “identity politics.” THE 2024 ELECTION left the Democrats “considering how to navigate a dark future,” said the New York Times. Voices from the progressive wing […]
Daniel Greenfield Front Page Magazine, Dec. 23, 2024 “America after Obama is marked by separation not unity, by a relentless skepticism in everything and a distrust of oratory. That is why Obama could no more get elected today than Kamala could while running an Obama Lite campaign under the tutelage of Obama’s old hands.” In […]
Tuesday, December 24th 2024 / Tuesday, December 24th 2024
A.J. Caschetta Algemeiner, Dec. 25, 2024 “One of the greatest differences between the coverage of the hostages held in Iran 45 years ago and of the hostages in Gaza today is that no one was on Iran’s side then, while many are on Hamas’s side today.” On November 4, 1979, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini’s henchmen stormed […]
Tamir Hayman INSS, Dec. 19, 2024 “A sustained campaign is needed, not just a single operation.” The IDF’s strike in Yemen last night is a justified response and marks an escalation in Israel’s reactions to Houthi fire, but it’s not enough to change the reality on the ground. The reality is that from the moment […]
Mick Hume Spiked, Dec. 21, 2024 “Every act of betrayal of Israel has been accompanied by the constant barrage of international media coverage that works on the principle of blame Israel first, and ask questions later.” It’s now clear that, given a free hand, Israel can handle its mortal enemies in the Middle East. It’s […]
Eliot Kaufman WSJ, Dec. 20, 2024 “From the air, you can mow the lawn. You can’t pull out the weeds. We’re here to uproot Hamas—not to deliver deterrent blows, but to destroy it.” “Hello?” Benjamin Netanyahu begins over the phone. “I’m going to give you a précis of everything that happened because we stand now at a […]
Monday, December 23rd 2024
Debbie Weiss Algemeiner, Dec. 16, 2024 “In the immediate aftermath of Oct. 7, while many other European countries flew Israeli flags above their government or public buildings, no such act of solidarity was shown in Ireland.” Ireland’s decision to join South Africa’s genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice and its support for redefining […]
Oliver Sears Fathom Journal, December 2024 “His short statement drips with contempt, revealing how such antiquated anti-Jewish racism presents itself in contemporary political commentary, without the least self-doubt.” I have a photograph, circa 1908 of my great-grandmother, Perla Rozenblum aged eighteen with a group of friends in Vienna at the tombstone of Theodor Herzl, the godfather of modern […]
Alex Winston Jerusalem Post, Dec. 19, 2024 “The current Irish prime minister and foreign minister, I think, perceive themselves as global statesmen striding the universe, whose very utterances everyone is hanging on.” Over a decade ago, Michael D Higgins, then still future president of the Republic of Ireland, visited the town of Sderot with a delegation of […]
Allan Shatter Jerusalem Post, Dec. 22, 2024 “The Irish government is simultaneously accusing Israel of genocide while recognizing nothing done by Israel to defend its citizens against Hamas terrorism currently falls within the existing international law concept of genocide.” On Tuesday, December 17, Dr Jilan Wahba Abdul Majid, elevated from Palestine’s representative to ambassadorial status […]
Friday, December 20th 2024
Charles Lipson Sapir Journal, Autumn 2024 “How can Jews be hated and harassed in the name of social justice?” The open, virulent, and sometimes violent eruption of antisemitism at elite universities may be the most daunting social challenge faced by American Jews since the Ku Klux Klan’s antisemitic campaign in the 1960s. The Klan had […]
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