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As investigators rush to connect the dots between the recent spate of tragic terrorist attacks in Istanbul, Berlin, Ankara, Zurich and Karak – we must not lose sight of the fact that in one month, President-elect Donald Trump will come face-to- face
Originally published on November 22, 2016. Critics of Israel love to exploit Jewish fears and anxieties. The most extreme resort to Holocaust inversion, boycotts, blacklists, and other singling-out methods reminiscent of Europe's anti-Semitic past.
Originally published under the title "Trump Is No Obama on Middle East Policy." After their first meeting, with cameras broadcasting their every word across the globe, President Obama turned to Donald Trump and pledged "to do everything we can to help
There is growing speculation that President Obama will spring a diplomatic surprise on Israel during the interregnum between the U.S. presidential election on Nov. 8 and his departure from office in January. Some say the surprise will be a speech laying
At his first security briefing, Avigdor Liberman, Israel's Defense Minister, declared that Israel no longer has "the luxury of conducting drawn-out wars of attrition." 100 days into his term, with no sign of the decades-long conflict slowing, it is
PHILADELPHIA – Aug. 22, 2016 – The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) is seeking once again to prevent the U.S. law enforcement community from staying abreast of the threat posed by radical Islam. The target of its objections this time around
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The mass murder of 49 people at an Orlando nightclub on Sunday should precipitate as big a rethink of how we fight terrorism as 9/11 did. Let's try to learn the right lessons this time. First and foremost, we've got to wipe the floor with ISIS. Although
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has touched the hearts of many journalists since an ISIS-inspired terror attack left 49 dead at a gay nightclub in Orlando early Sunday morning. CAIR Executive Director Nihad Awad called for solidarity
Peaceniks may be up in arms about the appointment of Avigdor Lieberman as Israel's next minister of defense, but the country's enemies are worried — and rightly so. Yes, as the inevitable flurry of articles accompanying his appointment are sure to point
Where does Donald Trump stand on the Arab-Israeli conflict? As with so much else, the only consistent feature of Trump's remarks is their off-the-cuff and contradictory nature. Trump's foreign policy thinking might be truly as shambolic as the sentences
Originally published under the title "America Leads Rest of the World in Tolerance of Muslims." Hillary Clinton's claim during the most recent Democratic debate that ISIS is "showing videos of Donald Trump insulting Islam and Muslims in order to recruit
For months, Western policymakers have agonized over what to do with the masses of Sunni Muslim migrants flooding Europe by the boatload, particularly Syrians. Largely missing from this discussion is the question of why this flood is happening. For
After the terror attack in California on December 2, everybody agrees we have to do something different to counter the threat from ISIS-inspired attacks in the United States, even as commentators endlessly debate what that should be. Ultimately, there
À mes amis, collègues et connaissances qui en France se demandent avec inquiétude comment réagir au lendemain des attentats de Paris, je ne peux que leur conseiller de regarder ce que fait Israël. Cette tragédie n'est pas le « 11-Septembre français ».
As my French friends, colleagues, and acquaintances agonize over what is to be done in the aftermath of the Paris attacks, the best advice I can think of is to look at Israel. This tragedy was not “France’s 9/11.” Al-Qaeda effectively depleted its stateside human assets
Originally published under the title "The Old Potomac Two Step." The White House is hell bent on achieving hegemonic equilibrium, or strategic parity, between Iran, the Gulf States (and Egypt), and Israel. The Obama administration, with Secretary of
The Jewish Federation of Atlantic & Cape May Counties and the Jewish Community Relations Council held a town hall meeting in Atlantic City on August 24 to discuss the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) signed by Iran and the P5+1 world powers in
It has often been said that “a lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes,” and so it is with the so-called Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) Movement that targets and demonizes Israel, and only Israel, among all
The menace of anti-Semitism is nothing new in 21st-century Europe. On Feb. 13, 2006, French Jew Ilan Halimi was found dead on a street in Paris after having been kidnapped and tortured by a gang over a three-week period. An article in The Wall Street
The Jewish Chronicle of Pittsburgh first reported this Palestinian gastro-political imbroglio story a week ago: “The Conflict Kitchen (a Pittsburgh based federally funded public art project / restaurant) …served up a discussion Tuesday afternoon billed as focusing on ‘current events in Palestine,’