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Iran’s Nuclear Gamble: Buying Time or Looming Threat? – Analysis

Nathan Klabin/The Media Line Jerusalem Post, Aug. 23, 2024   “Iran currently has two of the three critical components needed to assemble a nuclear weapon.”   Recent developments in Iran’s nuclear ambitions indicate that the Islamic Republic is on the cusp of achieving a nuclear weapon. Many experts estimate that the Iranian regime should already have enough […]

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Daily Briefing: UNDERSTANDING AN UNBREAKABLE BIBI

NO APOLOGIES Exclusive: Netanyahu at War:  Eric Cortellessa, TIME, Aug. 6, 2024 — For the past 10 months, Benjamin Netanyahu has refused to apologize for leaving Israel vulnerable to Hamas’ Oct. 7 terrorist attack. After the deaths of 1,200 people and the abduction of hundreds more, a traumatized Israeli public heard abject admissions of responsibility from the […]

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Netanyahu’s Place in History

Walter Russell Mead WSJ, Aug. 26, 2024 “Mr. Netanyahu is the bête noire of the international intelligentsia and the favorite whipping boy of the global press.”   Almost a year into Israel’s most challenging conflict since the 1948-49 War of Independence, one thing is increasingly clear about its embattled prime minister. Love him or loathe […]

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My Brother’s Keeper’: A Look Inside Israel’s ‘West Wing’

Liat Collins Jerusalem Post, Aug. 25, 2024 “The perception of Netanyahu was that he was a complex and difficult-to-understand man – but that was the narrative of those who didn’t know him and didn’t work closely with him. He was an alpha male who was perfect for the job of prime minister …” My Brother’s […]

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For Israel’s Progressive Elites, The Real War Is Against the Enemy Within

Gadi Taub JNS, Aug. 8, 2024 “There’s them, and there’s us. Them: A strange combination of nationalist fanatics, an ultra-Orthodox anti-Zionist leadership, corrupt, power-hungry people who breed those who will run over protesters.  Less than 20% of the public. Us: All the rest who want to live in a normal Jewish-democratic state. There’s no need […]

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How Democratic and Liberal Is Israel’s Radical Left-Wing?

Yisrael Medad JNS, Aug. 7, 2024 “Yair Golan, now the head of a new political party called the Democrats, suggested that “we should go to the Netanyahu residence, drag them outside, roll them in tar and feathers, and kick them out of town.” His interviewer felt the need to intervene and hurriedly commented, “You mean that metaphorically, […]

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Daily Briefing: RECREATING KAMALA HARRIS

SYNTHETIC JOY WATCH:  The Unbearable Nothingness of Kamala Harris:  Spiked, Aug. 2024–– Jacob Reynolds joins Tom Slater and Fraser Myers on the latest episode of the spiked podcast. They discuss the emptiness of the Democrats, Yvette Cooper’s extremism crackdown, the UK’s dysfunctional asylum system and the woke takeover of Wales. LISTEN:  The Hollowness of Kamala Harris:  Spiked, […]

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Democrats’ Deception May Win the Presidential Election Again

Gerard Baker WSJ, Aug. 26, 2024 “Its centerpiece was the semifictional self portrait of the presidential candidate herself.”   You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose. Mario Cuomo’s adage has been updated and adapted by his successors in the modern Democratic Party. The duality they present to voters either side of an election is a […]

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You Can’t Eat Vibes

Tom Slater Spiked, Aug. 23, 2024 “Virtue-signalling, triangulation, bloodless managerialism – this has ruled over Democratic politics for a long time now. But identitarianism has made matters so much worse.”   Say what you will about Kamala Harris, she can read from an autocue with the best of them. The vice-president turned nominee for president […]

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The Democrats Have Pulled Off a Miracle Party Members in Chicago Witnessed Magic

David Samuels Unherd, Aug. 26, 2024 “All told, the Chicago Miracle, as it will doubtlessly be known, was a reality-fracturing magic act.” Making an elephant disappear is a notoriously difficult test of the magician’s art. Turning a flower girl into a duchess might be even harder to pull off. Convincing the world’s most powerful man […]

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Who Is Kamala Harris?

Matthew Continetti Commentary, September 2024 “ … there is no more binary issue in the world today than a democratic nation retaliating against a genocidal terrorist organization that rapes and murders innocents, hides behind hospitals and schools, and burrows underground. “   On July 30, Kamala Harris released the first TV ad of her presidential […]

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Daily Briefing: COURTS TAKE ON THE MARGINALIZATION OF JEWISH STUDENTS

  NGOs FOR TERROR Israel Under Fire – NGO Warfare: From Human Rights Watch to Campus Mobs:  Prof. Gerald M. Steinberg, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, Aug. 18, 2024 — Many of the slogans chanted by antisemitic mobs on university campuses and in major cities following the October 7, 2023, atrocities – “genocide… starvation… apartheid… war crimes… […]

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