Monthly Archives : August 2023

08/20/2023

Israel’s #MeToo Stalinists Celebrate their Victory

Campaigners against Israel’s Netanyahu government scored a notable victory on Aug. 4. After a six-month demonization, defamation and harassment campaign against the Kohelet Policy Forum and its chief donor, Arthur Dantchik, Dantchik, a Philadelphia businessman, announced that he was ending his support for the conservative Jerusalem think tank. Moshe Koppel, a Bar-Ilan University professor, founded Kohelet a decade ago as…

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08/20/2023

The Israeli Left’s New Blood Libel: Jewish “terrorism”

On Friday night August 4, the Israeli media reported that “Jewish terrorists” had entered the Palestinian village Borqa and murdered a Palestinian in a deliberate act of terrorist murder. The problem with the story? It was completely false. The claim was based on the PA’s propaganda organ Wafa “news” service and then presented as fact by the IDF Spokesman, the…

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08/20/2023

How the U.S. $6 billion ransom is greenlighting the next Iran deal

To talk about the news of the Biden administration’s latest hostages for cash deal with Iran and its implication for Iran’s nuclear weapons program, my guest last week on the Caroline Glick Show this week was Richard Goldberg, a senior fellow at the Washington, DC-based Foundation for Defense of Democracies. Goldberg was the point person in the National Security Council…

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08/20/2023

The Death of the “New Jew”

A striking feature of the Left’s anti-government campaign has been the prominence of veterans of the 1973 Yom Kippur War in the effort. Yom Kippur War veterans lead the campaign, plan most of its operations, are its key funders and serve as prominent foot soldiers. The question is why? What happened in that war that radicalized so many of its…

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What Deal are the Americans and Saudis Negotiating?

Under the headline, “U.S.-Saudi Deal Sets Path to Normalize Kingdom’s Ties with Israel,” on Wednesday, The Wall Street Journal published a detailed report of the content of U.S.-Saudi discussions. The headline was accurate as far as that goes. But the content of the article made clear that Israel is not the real focus of the discussions. Although the story paid homage to…

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08/05/2023

Esther Hayut Sets Israel on Fire

Outgoing Supreme Court president Esther Hayut is playing the short game. She wants to clear her desk, finish the work she set out to achieve when she took over as Supreme Court head in late 2017 and let the chips fall where they may. Shortly before Hayut assumed office, she set out her judicial vision in an address before the…

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08/05/2023

What’s in Tom Friedman’s Anti-Israel “Peace Plan”?

Tom Friedman treats us to another anti-Israel piece, anti-reform protestors reach out to a foreign power to help them, and the Israeli Supreme Court weighs whether to abrogate Basic Laws. In my News Analysis this week, I discussed: 1 – The backstory behind the flurry of U.S. diplomatic activity in Saudi Arabia. What is the Biden administration seeking to achieve…

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08/05/2023

Should Israel Stop Receiving U.S. Military Aid?

Today a debate is raging about U.S. military aid to Israel among Israel’s supporters. Is U.S. military aid good for Israel or has it become an excuse for Israeli strategic passivity? Is Israel so dependent on the aid that it ignores its own interests and endangers lives? To advance this debate, my guest on this week’s Caroline Glick Show was…

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