Analysis
Monday, January 24th 2022 / Saturday, July 23rd 2022
Farnaz Fassihi and Lara Jakes NY Times, Jan. 12, 2022 Iran and the United States have recently engaged in a spiraling escalation of threats and warnings, even as they are progressing in diplomatic talks about reviving the 2015 nuclear deal. On Saturday, Iran’s Parliament placed largely symbolic sanctions on 51 Americans, many of them prominent […]
Lahav Harkov Jerusalem Post, Jan. 13, 2022 When asked how the indirect negotiations between the US and Iran to restore the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action nuclear deal were going, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki avoided answering the actual question, and instead launched into a revisionist history lesson blaming former president Donald Trump for Iran’s […]
Yoram Ettinger The Ettinger Report, Jan. 20, 2022 Ten days before the toppling of the Shah of Iran, president Jimmy Carter told a conference of world leaders on the Island of Guadeloupe that a Khomeini-led Iran “would not export revolution … and would be interested in buying tractors, not tanks.” On Jan. 11, six days before the […]
Joe Lieberman WSJ, Jan. 2, 2022 The biggest challenges the U.S. will face in 2022 won’t be Covid-19 or inflation but Russia and Iran. The way the Biden administration handles these two hostile, despotic governments may determine how secure our country will be for years. Moscow and Tehran are testing the administration’s foreign policy, which, […]
Friday, January 21st 2022 / Saturday, July 23rd 2022
The National Security Archive, Episode 17, May 13, 1997 “… there has never been, I believe, in the history of any nation, a transformation of fortune as abrupt and as speedy and as providential as that which the Jewish people had in that period, during the first two years of its existence.” INTERVIEWER: Thank you […]
Abba Eban NY Times, Nov. 3, 1975 “There is no difference whatever between anti‐Semitism and the denial of Israel’s statehood. Classical anti‐Semitism denies the equal rights of Jews as citizens within society. Anti‐Zionism denies the equal rights of the Jewish people to its lawful sovereignty within the community of nations.” The United Nations began its […]
Asaf Siniver Fathom, Summer 2016 “The same qualities which made Eban one of the most revered statesmen also made him a poor politician … he never became prime minister for a specific reason – because Israelis saw him as too far removed from the Israeli psyche.” Asaf Siniver’s biography of Abba Eban tells the story of an […]
Rick Richman Mosaic, May 20, 2021 “I was now personally directing a political operation that had no precedent in international history. No other state had ever been called upon to secure its membership in the international community through a process of cross-examination, advocacy, and rebuttals.” A week after its Declaration of Independence, as it fought […]
Thursday, January 20th 2022 / Saturday, July 23rd 2022
Middle East Forum, Jan. 18, 2022 The near-tragedy in Texas is a much needed reminder about the dangers of jihad. Here are six facts to consider following Malik Faisal Akram’s terrorist attack on the Colleyville, TX synagogue, where he demanded the release of Aafia Siddiqui, “Lady Al Qaeda,” from federal prison. 1. U.S. Vetting for Potential Jihadist […]
Robin Washington Forward, Jan. 19, 2022 The Texas rabbi celebrated around the world as a hero for freeing himself and several congregants from a gunman in an 11-hour synagogue siege is set to leave the community in June, the Forward has learned, having resigned last fall amid debate about whether his contract would be renewed. The circumstances […]
Daniel Greenfield JNS, Jan. 17, 2022 As far back as 2013, Pakistani Muslim terrorists plotted to take “foreign Jews” hostage to trade for “Lady Al-Qaeda.” In 2022, a Pakistani Muslim terrorist actually went out and did it. The hostage crisis at Congregation Beth Israel, a Reform Temple in Texas, ended with Faisal Akram of Blackburn—another […]
Melanie Phillips Melanie Phillips Substack, Jan. 18, 2022 The observation by an FBI officer that the gunman who took four Jews hostage in a Texas synagogue on Saturday was “singularly focused on one issue, and it was not specifically related to the Jewish community” has produced an understandable torrent of ridicule and derision. Obviously, the […]
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