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Protests Intensify at Columbia, Forcing Difficult Choices for Leaders Sharon Otterman and Alan Blinder

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NY Times, Apr. 18, 2024 “Columbia’s tightened rules were being tested even as Dr. Shafik testified.”   More than 100 students were arrested on Thursday after Columbia University called in the police to empty an encampment of pro-Palestinian demonstrators, fulfilling a vow to Congress by the school’s president that she was prepared to punish people […]

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Columbia President Admits School Was ‘Not Up To’ Challenge of Oct. 7 Fallout

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Douglas Belkin WSJ, Apr. 17, 2024 “The last six months on campus have served as an extreme pressure test. Our systems clearly have not been equipped to manage the unfolding situation.”   Columbia University president Nemat “Minouche” Shafik told a congressional committee Wednesday that the school wasn’t prepared for the firestorm stemming from Hamas’s attack […]

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Daily Briefing: BIDEN’S “DON’T” STRATEGY FOCUSES ON DEFENCE

WATCH:  Emergency Briefing on Iran’s Attack on Israel:  Behnam Ben Taleblu, Emetonline, Apr. 16, 2024   WATCH:  How Israel Divided the Right:  Sorab Ahmari, Unherd, Apr. 14, 2024 — Since October 7th, old divides between Right and Left on support for Israel were predictably resurfaced. Less expected, however, was a new civil war on the online Right. Compact founder […]

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Moment of Truth on Ukraine and Israel

Joe Biden WSJ, Apr. 17, 2024  “… if Iran succeeds in significantly escalating its assault on Israel, the U.S. could be drawn in. Israel is our strongest partner in the Middle East; it’s unthinkable that we would stand by if its defenses were weakened and Iran was able to carry out the destruction it intended […]

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Biden Prefers Appeasing Iran to Risk of Broader Conflagration:

  Israel Kasnett, JNS, Apr. 17, 2024 U.S. President Joe Biden’s “Don’t” warning to Israel’s enemies didn’t work. Iran attacked Israel directly, and its Lebanese proxy Hezbollah continues to fire rockets at Israel on a daily basis. In fact, Biden’s “Don’t” strategy has never worked. It wasn’t taken seriously by the Taliban in 2021, or […]

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Iran’s Advanced Armament Leaves Hamas’s Rocket System in the Dust:

  Udi Etzion, Jerusalem Post, Apr. 17, 2024 Three days after the Iranian missile attack on Israel and the successful interception of the vast majority of them, the defense establishment and the defense industry are now engaged in investigating the incident and learning from the events. Although Israel has been successfully intercepting rockets launched from Gaza since the Iron […]

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Ronald Reagan Just Saved Israel From Iran’s Attack

Daniel Henninger WSJ, Apr. 17, 2024   “If we have learned anything the past three years, it is that Mr. Biden is saturated in the don’t-provoke-a-response school of foreign policy.”   Allow me to identify who saved the people of Israel last weekend from Iran’s missile barrage: Ronald Reagan.   In 1983, President Reagan in a […]

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Daily Briefing: ISRAEL PONDERS RESPONSE

NOW WHAT?   Podcast:  After the Iranian Attack on Israel—What Can Be Expected?:  Adi Kantor, Danny Citrinowicz, and Chuck Freilich, INSS, Apr. 16, 2024 — After Iran’s leadership repeatedly threatened to retaliate for the assassination of its senior officer in Damascus, their reaction indeed finally came.  How the U.S. Forged a Fragile Middle Eastern Alliance to Repel […]

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How the U.S. Forged a Fragile Middle Eastern Alliance to Repel Iran’s Israel Attack

David A. Cloud, Dov Lieber, Stephen Kalin and Summer Said WSJ, Apr. 15, 2024 “The operation was the culmination of years of U.S. effort to break down political and technical barriers that thwarted military cooperation between Israel and the Sunni Arab governments.”   As hundreds of Iranian drones and missiles winged across the Middle East Saturday night, […]

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In a Decisive Moment Like This, Israel Has to Reaffirm Its Strength by Striking Back

Editorial Jerusalem Post, Apr. 16, 2024 “While retaliation is costly, the cost of inaction is higher.” In the volatile tapestry of Middle Eastern politics, the dawn of April 14, 2024, marked yet another escalation in regional tensions. Hundreds of Iranian drones, cruise, and ballistic missiles targeted Israel, punctuating a period of rising hostilities. However, the resilience […]

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Israel Shouldn’t ‘Take the Win’ Against Iran

Walter Russell Mead WSJ, Apr. 15, 2024 “What the president appears not yet to understand is that Iran has become so powerful, and America’s reputation as a source of sound policy and reliable support so weak, that only resolute American backing of our allies can turn the tide.” “Take the win,” President Biden reportedly advised Prime […]

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Washington Sold Out Israel’s Deterrence to Save Iran’s

Yigal Carmon JNS, Apr. 26, 2024 “Indeed, almost no one was hurt—but Israel’s deterrence was struck down by Washington’s coordination with Iran. Israel’s deterrence was sold out to save Iran’s.”   To understand what happened in the Middle East overnight Saturday, one has to go back four years to the killing by the United States […]

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