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Wednesday, May 29th 2024 / Wednesday, May 29th 2024

ANOTHER FAILURE?   WATCH:  A Risky Mission: Analyzing the Gaza Pier Project:  Hudson Institute, YouTube, Apr. 17, 2024 — As United States military ships set sail to the Gaza coast, many questions remain unanswered about President Joe Biden’s plan to construct a floating pier to deliver humanitarian aid to Palestinians. The US-built Pier for Humanitarian Aid Delivery […]

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Wednesday, May 29th 2024

J.E. Dyer The Optimistic Conservative, May 26, 2024 “The pier is there in part to do what President Obama and John Kerry were unable to do through an arrangement in the West Bank (Judea and Samaria) in Obama’s second term.” With the Gaza pier now reportedly shooting off support infrastructure to bounce away with utility landing craft in the […]

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Wednesday, May 29th 2024 / Wednesday, May 29th 2024

Jeremy Sharon Times of Israel, May 24, 2024 “… the government told the court in April that it had rejected only 1.5% of such requests, while COGAT has consistently argued that it is transferring more aid than the humanitarian agencies are dispatching.”   A group of highly respected academics and public health officials who authored a working […]

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Wednesday, May 29th 2024

Bassam Tawill Gatestone Institute, May 20, 2024 “The Palestinians have a history of showing no gratitude to those who provide them with food, money and jobs.” More than $300 million has been spent by the Biden administration to construct a floating pier on the coast of the Gaza Strip to aid the local Palestinian population. Rather than […]

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Wednesday, May 29th 2024 / Wednesday, May 29th 2024

Seth J. Frantzman Jerusalem Post, May 28, 2024 “Reports say that the pier was not designed to withstand a heavy sea, or in fact it seems any seas in which waves reached over 1.5 meters.” The US-built floating pier faces a new hurdle in the delivery of aid to the coast of Gaza. The pier contained […]

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Tuesday, May 28th 2024

WHY IT MATTERS ICC Prosecutor Requests Arrest Warrants for Israeli Leaders:  Jonathan Ruhe and Yoni Tobin, JINSA, May 21, 2024 — On May 20, International Criminal Court (ICC) Prosecutor Karim Khan announced that he requested warrants for the arrests of Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, which, if issued by the court’s […]

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Tuesday, May 28th 2024

Jonathan S. Tobin JNS, May 23, 2024 “The mainstreaming of anti-Zionist propaganda that denies rights to Jews no one would think of denying to anyone else comes with a cost both for Israel and the Diaspora.”   Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s domestic and American political opponents are not all cheering the decision of the chief […]

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Tuesday, May 28th 2024

Dror Eylar Israel Hayom, May 26, 2024 “The West is suffering from an immense post-biblical void. … They have removed the Bible from the curriculum of the US and Europe, and the outcome is that they are simply falling apart at the seams internally and too weak to deal with their external threats.” 1.  Justice seeks […]

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Tuesday, May 28th 2024

Kyle Orton Kyle Orton.com, May 20, 2024 “The ICC is constituted as an international institution that claims an authority superseding national governments, yet the eminences at its helm answer only to the thoughts in their own minds and those of their colleagues.” In the summer of 1998, shortly after the Rome Statute establishing the International […]

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Tuesday, May 28th 2024

Melanie Phillips Substack, May 27, 2024 “Khan has revealed himself to be a slavish product of the Western intelligentsia, which has embraced moral and cultural relativism and no longer recognizes the distinction between right and wrong, good and evil, victim and victimizer.” In a revealing Sunday Times (£) interview yesterday with the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Karim […]

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Monday, May 27th 2024

CAMPUS EVOLUTION Podcast: Ruth Wisse on the Explosion of Anti-Israel Protests on Campus:  Mosaic, May 3, 2024   My Message to Columbia’s Sane Students:  Douglas Murray, The Spectator, May 25, 2024 — There are several frustrating things about American college campuses, just one of which is the sheer volume of column inches they take up. Whenever an American campus […]

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Monday, May 27th 2024

Abe Greenwald Commentary Magazine, June 2024 “The union of radical leftism and jihadism on display across American campuses is a marriage born of necessity—and of love.”   In April, a long-haired flower child on the campus of Princeton University was captured on camera. The picture, posted on social media, shows him sitting on his guitar […]