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Friday, May 19th 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023

Editorial Board I & I, May 18, 2023 “The only plausible answer for this “noticeable departure” is that it was indeed just that — a conscious move on the part of the FBI to intervene in a presidential election on behalf of a political ally.”   The long-delayed, much-awaited Durham report has finally dropped. And what […]

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Friday, May 19th 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023

  Holman W. Jenkins Jr. WSJ, May 16, 2023 If there wasn’t a “Clinton plan”—the phrase used 65 times in Monday’s published report by Justice Department special counsel John Durham—to tar then-rival Donald Trump as a Russian agent, there may have been a plan about what to say if anybody asked if there was a Clinton plan. […]

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Thursday, May 18th 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023

Who Wants to Destroy Israel? You Might Be Surprised.:  Guy Milliere, Gatestone Institute, May 15, 2023 — On April 17-18, Israel observed Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Day. Sirens sounded across the country while people stood for two minutes of silence in remembrance of six million Jews who had been murdered. ________________________________________________________ Israel at 75 Is Threatened but Strong:  Walter Russell […]

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Thursday, May 18th 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023

Walter Russell Mead WSJ, May 15, 2023 “American policy toward Israel depends less on poll numbers than on how a given U.S. president sees American interests world-wide and where Israel and the Middle East fit into the administration’s global foreign policy.” It’s been 75 years since the Jewish community in British Palestine rejected a last-minute plea […]

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Thursday, May 18th 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023

Philip Klein National Review, Apr. 27, 2023 “The conflict between being an open and liberal state and an explicitly Jewish one has led to clashes on immigration, transportation, social welfare, and army service, among many other topics.” Spending Passover in Israel feels like cheating. For a Jew in America, the experience of going eight days without […]

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Thursday, May 18th 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023

Micah Halpern Jerusalem Post, May 2, 2023 “There is a reason for this stark disparity between the message and the reality. It is not simply a misread of the political agenda. It is a time-honored strategy of how to motivate and how to raise money for “the cause.”   On Tuesday April 25, when the […]

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Thursday, May 18th 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023

Elliot Abrams Council on Foreign Affairs, May 9, 2023 ”Their claim that Israel, because it is a Jewish state, “fosters a form of ethnic nationalism” is akin to their claim about apartheid: they don’t quite have the courage of their convictions and do not say what their article logically leads to—the belief that Zionism is […]

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Thursday, May 18th 2023 / Thursday, May 18th 2023

Citation de la semaine: « Je ne vis pas à Jérusalem, Jérusalem vit en moi. » Elie Wiesel Table des Matières   Journée de Jérusalem – Yom Yeroushalaïm, des pierres et des jours alyah.fr, 23 mai 2017 Le jour où la guerre a fait irruption à Jérusalem                  […]

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Wednesday, May 17th 2023 / Wednesday, May 17th 2023

                   MEDIA-OCRITY House Republican Report Finds No Evidence of Wrongdoing by President Biden:  Luke Broadwater, NY Times, May 10, 2023 ‘After four months of investigation, House Republicans who promised to use their new majority to unearth evidence of wrongdoing by President Biden acknowledged on Wednesday that they had […]

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Tuesday, May 16th 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023

POLL:  SAUDIS SEEK ‘SOME TIES’ WITH ISRAEL New Saudi Opinion Poll Shows 40 Percent Still Back Some Ties with Israel; Three-Fourths Say Rocket Fire Against Israel Will Have Negative Effects:  David Pollock, Washington Institute, May 15, 2023 — Against the background of this week’s exchanges of fire between Israel and Gaza, it is striking that the solid […]

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Tuesday, May 16th 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023

Seth J. Frantzman Jerusalem Post, May 8, 2023   “… in January 2022 they [JINSA] had “urged the US government to seize the opportunity to start building a new Middle East defense architecture premised on bringing America’s regional partners together in common cause to counter the growing menace from Iran.”   US National Security Advisor […]

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Tuesday, May 16th 2023 / Friday, December 1st 2023

Dr. Yechiel M. Leiter Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, No. 662, May 15, 2023 “The Saudis are shrewd and accomplished diplomats, masters at unravelling the mysteries of Middle East intrigue, and there are no better experts at identifying the duplicitous nature of the ayatollah regime.”  Not as It Appears With the announcement of the rapprochement […]