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Top U.S. Official Held Talks in Paris on Defusing Israel-Hezbollah Conflict

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Michael Crowley New York Times, July 2, 2024 “No one actually wants a war,” Mr. Blinken said. He said that Iran, a determined foe of Israel, “wants to make sure that Hezbollah’s not destroyed and that it can hold onto Hezbollah as a card if it needs it, if it ever gets into a direct […]

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Israel is Losing the North

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Michael Oren Times of Israel, July 11, 2024 “Israel is losing the north, but the loss will not be of land alone. Endangered, too, is the state’s commitment to defend all of our citizens irrespective of their place of residence, to preserve our precious human and natural resources, and to deter our enemies.” In contrast […]

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Why There Will Be No Mega-War in the North with Hezbollah, at Least this Year – Comment

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Yonah Jeremy Bob Jerusalem Post, July 10, 2024 “… the failure of deterrence with Hamas Gaza chief Yahya Sinwar does not mean deterrence never works and cannot work with Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah.” The conventional wisdom since late winter has been that war between Israel and Hezbollah is imminent and that there is no other way to […]

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The Lebanon War Is Coming

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Judith Miller Tablet, July 16, 2024 “A 5-kilometer swatch of Israel in the north has effectively been rendered uninhabitable by Israel’s foes without occupation.” Israel faces a conundrum to which there is no easily discernible, sustainable solution: how best to counter the growing strategic threat posed by Hezbollah, the Iranian-backed Shiite terrorist group that runs […]

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Daily Briefing: RISE OF ANTISEMITISM: WHAT CAN JEWS DO?

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BLAMING JEWS Trump Assassination Attempt Ignites Antisemitic Conspiracy Theories; Jews, Israel Blamed for Shooting:  Jacob Frankel, Algemeiner, July 16, 2024 — The assassination attempt on former US President Donald Trump’s life has sparked a wave of conspiracy theories online blaming Israel or Jews for the shooting.   Will Jewish Students Be Safe This Fall?:  Jason L. Riley, WSJ, July […]

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Opinion: I’m a Daughter of Holocaust Survivors. These German Students and I Are Learning About the Power of Listening

Elizabeth Rosner CNN, July 13, 2024 “I often feel unable to manage my conflicting feelings about forgiveness when it comes to overt cruelty.”   Sometime in late April, the Jewish cemetery in upstate New York where both of my parents are buried was vandalized. Close to 100 gravestones, almost all with Hebrew lettering on one or both sides, […]

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Woody Allen and the IDF

David Mamet Jewish Journal, July 3, 2024 “The Diaspora meme; “I’m Jewish, but I’m not that Jewish,” has, again, been corrected by a mob’s screaming, “Yes. You are.””   Marilyn Monroe was one of the screen’s great clowns. Her schtick, though tagged as sexual or provocative was actually an affectionate send-up of sexuality.  Woody’s screen […]

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Candace Owens Is a Cautionary Tale About Platforming Ignorance

Jonathan S. Tobin JNS, July 11, 2024   “… as Owens has again taught us, not everyone who decries the dead hand of liberal groupthink is a principled dissenter or honest observer. Antisemitic conspiracy theories are always the last refuge of media con artists.”   There is a good argument to be made that the […]

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Can a Federal Court Stop Antisemitism at Columbia?

Michael Gross WSJ, July 11, 2024 “Passive and morally confused leaders have tacitly encouraged the threats of violence against Jewish students. By failing to oppose antisemitism from the outset, they’ve fostered the creation of a de facto no-go zone for Jews.”   Will the antisemitism at Columbia University ever end? That was the question after […]

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Daily Briefing: CAN BROMIDES ALONE HEAL A DIVIDED NATION?

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America’s Jacksonian Turn:  Walter Russel Mead, WSJ, July 14, 2024 The Price of Calling Trump a Nazi Is Made Obvious:  Jonathan S. Tobin, JNS, July 15, 2024 The Portal:  David Samuels, Tablet, July 15, 2024 About Biden’s Pledge to Unify the Nation:  Allysia Finley, WSJ, July 14, 2024 _______________________________________________________ For Further Reference: Trump’s Running Mate JD Vance: ‘I’ll Be […]

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The Price of Calling Trump a Nazi Is Made Obvious

Jonathan S. Tobin JNS, July 15, 2024  “… when the entire focus of the arguments of one end of the political spectrum is based on treating opponents as illegitimate and their leader as the second coming of Adolf Hitler—as the Democrats have treated Trump–it isn’t good enough to respond to an act of violence with […]

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America’s Jacksonian Turn

Walter Russel Mead WSJ, July 14, 2024 “Saturday’s events made America more Jacksonian and gave Mr. Trump an unbreakable hold on Jacksonian America.”   Donald Trump was only glancingly wounded on Saturday, but the effects of the attack and of his courageous response will be profound. His chance of victory substantially increased, and the movement he […]

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