Monthly Archives : March 2023

A New Phase in US-Israel Relations


Israel was rocked by the news on Thursday that the U.S. State Department had ordered NASA scientist Dr. Amber Straughn to cancel her participation in the Israel Physical Society’s annual meeting. The news came following Straughn’s posting on Twitter that her “travel authorization was revoked” on Wednesday. The State Department’s move, which gives the appearance of an official boycott, would…

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What have we learned from the mob?


This week was a hard week in Israel. In a dramatic speech on Monday evening, (after the show was taped), Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu recalled the story of Solomon’s Judgment of the two women claiming to be the same baby’s mother. He suggested cutting the child in two and giving each woman half. The fake mother agreed, the real mother…

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Why Did Netanyahu Pull Back?


On Monday, a day after the Histadrut labor union joined the left and declared a national strike to protest the government’s effort to limit the power of Israel’s now unchecked Supreme Court, Prime Minister Netanyahu announced that he was shelving the plan, and not bringing it to a vote in the Knesset. Instead, he said, the government would agree to…

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The Biden Administration’s Sinister Turn Against Israel


On Tuesday, the State Department summoned Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Michael Herzog to demand an explanation for the Knesset’s abrogation of the 2005 law banning Jews from living in four communities in northern Samaria. That law was passed in the framework of Israel’s failed plan to disengage from the Gaza Strip and northern Samaria. In August 2005, Israel expelled…

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America, Israel and the Era of False Messiahs


On the eve of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq 20 years ago this month, the anticipated war was accompanied by a sense of idealistic triumphalism. It was fueled by a still-righteous rage following the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks and empowered by the U.S.’s recent early victories over the Taliban in Afghanistan. The overriding sense of U.S. troops as they gathered…

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What the War Against Judicial Reform is Really About


The left’s total war against the Netanyahu government’s judicial reform plan seems to know no bounds, and appears impenetrable to information or substantive discussion. Indeed, with each passing day, as the left outdoes itself in violence and extremism, it appears that what we are seeing is more psychologically than policy based. In this sense, the left’s revolt has more in…

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Gal Luft’s Distressing Predicament


On Feb. 16, Israel Defense Forces Lt. Col. (retired) Dr. Gal Luft was arrested at the airport in Cyprus as he was about to board a flight home. Three days later, Luft posted a stunning claim on his Twitter account. He wrote: “I’ve been arrested in Cyprus on a politically motivated extradition request by the U.S. The U.S, claiming I’m…

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Netanyahu’s task of rallying the nation


The growing lawlessness of the Leftist rioters and the increased cowardice of the IDF and police in the face of their aggressive rejection of the voter’s will in the November 1 elections are pushing Israel further and further into crisis. Meanwhile, internationally, a new Saudi-Iranian pact has been brokered by the Chinese further eroding American power in the Middle East…

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What the Rioting Left Fails to See


On Sunday, a group of Israeli Air Force reserve F-15I pilots announced that due to their opposition to the Netanyahu government’s judicial reform bills, they would not participate in their squadron’s training mission this week. It’s hard to know what the pilots thought would happen in response to their declaration, but if they believed the IDF would compel the government…

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Politics is Poisoning the IDF


Last Wednesday, a mob of leftists descended on a Tel Aviv hair salon while Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s wife Sara Netanyahu was inside. For three hours, they blocked her from leaving while cursing her and her husband and his government’s package of judicial reform legislation. The mob violence against Sara Netanyahu was just another expression of the left’s increased radicalism…

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