Analysis
Thursday, July 21st 2022 / Thursday, July 21st 2022
Daniel Henninger WSJ, July 13, 2022 “… a responsible party leadership would have hedged this clear national risk by nominating a strong vice-presidential candidate able to step in if necessary” It’s time to board a sinking ship— Joe Biden’s presidency. The New York Times reported that its poll with Siena College finds 64% of Democrats, not even waiting […]
Lance Morrow WSJ, July 15, 2022 “… you are not an aged monk like me. You are president of the United States. Teddy Roosevelt set an alarming standard for the office when he praised “the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood.” You still up […]
Victor Davis Hanson Las Vegas Review-Journal, July 16, 2022 “Hypocrisy and elite virtue signaling, however, are now trademarks of California politicians — and illustrate how little elected officials care for the victims of their ideological agendas.” In a run-up to what is likely to be a 2024 presidential bid, California Gov. Gavin Newsom hit upon […]
Rowan Scarborough Washington Times, July 11, 2022 “Between roles in the Obama and Biden administrations, Antony Blinken co-founded a D.C. advisory business––and made a small fortune.” How does President Joe Biden, with pride, call oppressive gasoline prices “an incredible transition?” The same way his millionaire energy secretary tells hard-pressed Americans to solve their financial problems by […]
Tuesday, July 19th 2022 / Tuesday, July 19th 2022
Martha Lee Middle East Quarterly, Summer 2022 “In contrast to the manifesto’s assertion that “ideas have consequences” and that “universities have an essential role to play in the struggle to defend secularism and freedom of speech,” the CPU insisted that “research isn’t responsible for the ills of society, it analyzes them”; hence, “universities cannot be […]
Anael Malet Mosaic, May 2, 2022 “To some laïcité zealots, any unchosen encounter with religious expression in a state setting, however innocuous, undermines the principle.” French Jews find themselves walking a tightrope, struggling to keep their footing while fending off challenges from two forces that threaten their lives as individuals and as a community. These forces are […]
Constant Méheut NY Times, July 5, 2022 “About 165 children and 65 women of French nationality are still stranded in the fetid, disease-ridden detainment camps run by Kurdish forces in northeastern Syria, where they are in a state of legal limbo.” France brought home 16 wives of jihadists from sprawling detention camps in northeastern Syria on Tuesday, breaking […]
Tuesday, July 19th 2022
Haoues Seniguer European Eye on Radicalization, July 15, 2022 “… the laws and other measures adopted in France since 2015 have worked: there have been no further mass-casualty terrorist attacks.” France: The European Union Country Most Affected by Islamist Violence (1979-2021) Over the last four decades, France has been affected by multiple terrorist attacks by groups […]
Monday, July 18th 2022
Ben Hubbard NYT, July 14, 2022 “Scholars of the Middle East point out that the United States has a long history of doing business with autocrats, including every Saudi king, and that engagement could more effectively shape their behavior than ostracism.” The Saudi Arabia that President Biden will visit this week is a country being […]
Ambassador Eric Edelman, General Charles Wald, USAF (ret.), VADM John Bird et al JINSA, July 11, 2022 “The president should reaffirm and update the 1980 Carter Doctrine with a “Biden Doctrine” that explicitly reasserts vital U.S. interests in preventing regional domination by any power – including preventing a nuclear Iran – and that any such […]
Mike Fegelman National Post, July 15, 2022 “Most recently, the Saudi magazine Al-Majallah published a front-page article in its July edition positively covering a story of Arab-Israelis volunteering in the Israel Defence Forces. Publishing such an article without the government’s approval would be unthinkable.” In recent years, Israel has enjoyed improved relationships with Muslim-majority […]
Dylan Kassin and David Pollock Washington Institute, July 15, 2022 “It is striking that of all the Arab populations polled in the past few months, Palestinians are in fact the least likely to express a negative viewpoint of the Abraham Accords.” The wave of Arab countries officially normalizing relations with Israel over the past several years stands […]
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