Analysis
Thursday, November 14th 2024
Ezra Klein NY Times, Nov. 13, 2024 “The Obama coalition was exhausted and defeated.” In my post-election essay, I said that the 2024 election marked the end of the Obama coalition. But what does that mean? Well, in part it means that some of the political strategies the Democrats thought would turn Obama’s […]
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Wednesday, November 13th 2024
Ambassador (ret.) Yoram Ettinger The Ettinger Report, Nov. 12, 2024 “… regime-change is irreversible, eliminates the threat, and cannot be restored by a succeeding President.” “I’m not going to start wars, I’m going to stop wars,” proclaimed President-elect Trump in his November 6 victory message. *Bolstering the US’ posture of deterrence is the most critical prerequisite for stopping/minimizing […]
Gilad Erdan Israel Hayom, Nov. 7, 2024 “President Trump isn’t a blind follower of “multilateralism” at any cost.” During my tenure as Israel’s Ambassador to the US and UN, I witnessed firsthand how the differing approaches between the Trump and Biden administrations affected Israel’s national security. President Biden deserves gratitude and appreciation for military […]
Wednesday, November 13th 2024 / Wednesday, November 13th 2024
Caroline Glick NY Post, Nov. 11, 2024 “Eight years ago, Trump and Netanyahu’s complementary worldviews set their nations on a course to previously unimagined achievements.” On Sunday, Israel reportedly killed Hezbollah terror boss Ali Musa Daqduq in Syria, bringing a measure of justice to the US military’s Iraq war veterans. In 2007, Daqduq and […]
Noah Rothman National Review, Nov. 12, 2024 “All this is nerve-wracking to those who believed they were getting in Trump a capitulatory advocate for global retrenchment.” It’s axiomatic that personnel is policy. That can be overstated, but Donald Trump’s cabinet picks do provide us with some clues about how his next administration will govern. What is […]
Tuesday, November 12th 2024
Deborah Lyons, Irwin Cotler and Noah Lew Globe and Mail, Nov. 11, 2024 “Canadians of conscience – which we believe most Canadians are – see this surging hate and are eager to be part of the solution, but don’t always have the tools to do so.” By now, many Canadians are aware of the epidemic of antisemitism […]
Tuesday, November 12th 2024 / Tuesday, November 12th 2024
Tristin Hopper National Post, Nov. 6, 2024 “The real paradox, and the real scandal, is that the same people who didn’t say a word back then have now suddenly awakened to supposedly support the Palestinian cause. I say “supposedly” because the fanatics shouting in Toronto about their “support for Gaza” couldn’t care less about the […]
Elin Bessner Canadian Jewish News, Nov. 10, 2024 “UPDATE (10:20 a.m. 11/10/24): The CJN has learned that after losing this appeal shortly before the arrival of Shabbat on Friday afternoon—at which time it paused communications until Saturday night—JNF Canada sent an email to supporters to clarify it will not have to disperse its assets by Wednesday.” Jewish […]
Terry Newman National Post, Oct. 10, 2024 ““Thomas, have you seen the demographics of my riding”?” An article by former NDP leader Thomas Mulcair this week suggested Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly is shaping Canada’s foreign policy to please a few thousand voters in her own Montreal riding, particularly as it would pertain to Israel. “Thomas, […]
Monday, November 11th 2024
Leon de Winter WSJ, Nov. 8, 2024 “Since Oct. 7, 2023, these Moroccan youths have participated in weekly anti-Zionist demonstrators through the streets of Amsterdam.” A lot has changed in Amsterdam since 1945, but some things remain the same. During World War II, Amsterdam police, at the behest of German officers, hunted Jews. […]
David de Bruijn The Free Press, Nov. 8, 2024 “Many are shocked, wondering how this could happen in the Netherlands. To me, their bafflement is what’s shocking.” As the Amsterdam Jewish community joined with local officials to commemorate the 86th anniversary of Kristallnacht at the city’s Portuguese-Jewish synagogue—established by Jews who escaped the Inquisition—a pogrom […]
John Podhoretz Commentary, Nov. 8, 2024 “On three continents this week alone—Europe, North America, and Asia, where the Houthis and Hezbollah are again firing rockets and drones at Israel under the direction of Iran—they are coming after Jews every day.” Early Friday morning in Amsterdam, in the shadow of the house in which Anne Frank […]
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