04/29/2018
Newly-confirmed Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s travel schedule mainly signals how concerned the Trump administration has become about the growing probability of war breaking out imminently between Israel and Iran, with Iran’s Syrian and Lebanese proxies fighting on Iran’s behalf against the Jewish state. Pompeo went straight to Andrews Air Force base from his confirmation ceremony at the Supreme Court…
04/25/2018
As French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel beat a path for the White House in back-to-back visits this week, the media coverage of U.S. – European Union relations is focused on efforts to convince President Donald Trump to keep faith with his predecessor Barack Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran. Left largely unreported is that while the European…
Natalie Portman, the Israeli-born American-Oscar winning actress, hit Israel below the belt last Thursday. The 36-year-old actress’s aggression was shocking to many, since she has made a big deal of her Israeli roots over the years. For instance, in 2015 she gave an interview to the Hollywood Reporter. As a new resident of Paris, Portman was asked whether she “was…
04/20/2018
Jewish Voice for Peace is a marginal group, by all accounts. The Jewish run, anti-Zionist organization has perhaps a couple dozen employees and anywhere between a few dozen and a couple hundred committed activists in the US. Its positions – that Israel is evil and must be destroyed and that Jews should be disenfranchised and ostracized because they support…
04/16/2018
The United States, United Kingdom, and France joined in a combined operation on April 14 that used “precision” strikes against Syria’s chemical weapons infrastructure. The following are key points about the raid. 1. Operationally, the strike showed the U.S. has the capacity to conduct airstrikes with allies, against significant targets, with minimal lead time. It took less than a week for the…
04/16/2018
Syrian President Bashar Assad is not an independent actor. The Assad regime owes its existence to Iran and Russia. Bashar Assad would never have carried out his April 7 chemical weapons attack against rebel forces and their families in Douma, outside Damascus, if he hadn’t received a green light from Russia and operational assistance and permission from Iran. As a…
04/13/2018
On the eve of Holocaust Remembrance Day, the New Israel Fund announced it signed a partnership agreement with Anne Frank Fonds, the foundation Anne Frank’s father, Otto Frank, established in 1963 to administer the profits from the sales of her diary. Frank’s diary has sold more than 30 million copies in 60 languages since it was first published in 1947.…
04/13/2018
Notably, the first foreign leader who called Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban to congratulate him for his decisive victory in Hungary’s parliamentary elections Sunday was Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Netanyahu called Orban and invited him to visit Israel. Netanyahu thanked Orban for “Hungary’s support for Israel in international forums.” Orban’s Fidesz party won a landslide victory in the parliamentary elections, giving Orban a…
In the article linked below my friend Michael Ledeen writes about the escalation in anti-Jewish violence in Europe. He ends the article by noting that American Jews need to start organizing themselves to meet the wave of anti-Semitism that is moving swiftly towards them. I agree with his assessment. Michael notes with worry that the leftist ideological inclinations of most…
The search warrant executed against President Trump’s personal attorney Michael Cohen is a watershed event in my opinion. It indicates that Special Counsel Robert Mueller is indeed carrying out a witch hunt. And he isn’t alone. I don’t know where things go from here but I hope that the Justice Dept. IG Horowitz will publish his findings. It seems to…