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Wednesday, June 21st 2023

MEDIA-OCRITY   Who Is Not Implicated in the Trump Indictment? Hillary Clinton.:  Ruth Marcus, Washington Post, June 12, 2023 “I have no brief for Clinton’s behavior in setting up a private, insecure email server to get around the State Department’s clunky, antiquated email system. It was sloppy, and Clinton made matters worse when she had her lawyers unilaterally erase 30,000 […]

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Tuesday, June 20th 2023 / Saturday, November 4th 2023

INCREASING TIES WATCH:  The Cowardice and Failure of Jewish Leadership:  Jonathan S. Tobin, JNS, June 15, 2023 –– “Top Story” with Jonathan Tobin and guest Charles Jacobs and Avi Goldwasser, Ep. 99.  Why are American Jews so badly led? Why is it that so much of organized Jewish life is now devoted to causes that […]

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Tuesday, June 20th 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023

Andrew Pessin Akron Jewish News, June 7, 2023 “… we find many Jews who embrace a deracinated version of tikkun olam that constitutes the entirety of their Jewish identity. From there, it’s a short step to saying, “As a Jew I must fight for Palestinian rights and destroy the Jewish state.” These Jews are somehow blind to […]

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Tuesday, June 20th 2023 / Sunday, November 5th 2023

Dr. Alex Grobman Israel National News, May 25, 2023 “Most mainstream Jewish leaders are promoting universalist fantasies—but to bring ‘kumbaya’ to the arena of identity politics is to unilaterally disarm.”   Charles Jacobs and Avi Goldwasser, EDS. Betrayal: The Failure of American Jewish Leadership (New York: Post Hill Press, 2023) ISBN: 978-1-63758-878-9 “This book is […]

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Tuesday, June 20th 2023 / Sunday, November 5th 2023

Avi Weiss and Eitan Fischberger Tablet, June 2, 2023 “… the majority of antisemitic acts in America are taking place in Haredi/Hasidic communities, such as Monsey, Crown Heights, and Borough Park, all in New York. With their visibly Jewish garbs, these innocent people can—and have been—easily singled out for constant attack. This is raw antisemitism, […]

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Tuesday, June 20th 2023 / Sunday, November 5th 2023

Charles Jacobs Jerusalem Post, June 2, 2023 “The Jewish establishment is now fully trapped. It put all our eggs into the imploding liberal basket. It made alliances with all the minority groups, and now these very groups have turned on us and have become Palestinianists and antisemitic.”   It might not have been the kindest […]

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Monday, June 19th 2023 / Sunday, November 5th 2023

CEMENTING TIES? Egypt and Iran: Prospects for Rapprochement:  Dr. Gawdat Bahgat, Gulf International Forum, June 7, 2023 — In May 2023, Sultan Haitham bin Tariq of Oman made separate state visits to both Egypt and Iran—two trips that were largely seen as an attempt to mediate between the two major Middle Eastern powers. ________________________________________________________________________  Can […]

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Monday, June 19th 2023 / Sunday, November 5th 2023

Seth J. Frantzman Jerusalem Post, May 30, 2023 “Cairo’s current outreach to Turkey and the Palestinian Authority, as well as potential new ties with Iran, all come in the context of a regional diplomatic revolution in which countries are pursuing diplomatic ties, rather than conflict.”   In the wake of Turkey’s recent elections Egypt was […]

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Monday, June 19th 2023 / Sunday, November 5th 2023

Alwaght, May 20, 2023   “…. for the Israelis, Egypt’s moving towards Iran means losing a good ally in the Arab world.”   [The] Israeli regime, which has always used tensions among regional countries as a breathing space to break its isolation and advance the normalization with Arab countries, is struck with confusion, concern, and […]

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Monday, June 19th 2023 / Sunday, November 5th 2023

Lazar Berman Times of Israel, June 14, 2023 “This points at a known pattern in Egyptian media and official communications, they don’t admit that something is wrong,”   At 4:20 in the afternoon of October 5, 1985, an Egyptian soldier manning a checkpoint in the Red Sea resort town of Ras Burqa raised his gun […]

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Monday, June 19th 2023 / Sunday, November 5th 2023

Amir Avivi Jerusalem Post, June 15, 2023 “Both the Sinai and the Negev suffer from weak sovereign governance and lawlessness, providing fertile ground for the narratives of various extremist groups aiming to recruit and deepen regional instability.” This month’s disastrous killing of three IDF soldiers near the Egyptian border by an Egyptian border police officer was a […]

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Friday, June 16th 2023 / Sunday, November 5th 2023

Ellen Iones Foreign Policy, June 14, 2023 “Assad is not going to budge on core issues like Iran. He needs Iran; he’s not going to step away from Iran. And he’s not going to be a reliable negotiator that delivers everything that he promises to do.”   Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s appearance at the Arab […]