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Senior Likud MK: Key Government Goal, Elimination of Iranian Nuclear Threat
October 16, 2011Thanks to an Israeli source pointing me to this provocative Facebook posting by senior Likud MK Carmel Shama HaCohen: At the beginning of the current government’s term three chief objectives were set: ending the economic crisis, returning Gilad Shalit, and eliminating the Iranian nuclear [program]. We’ve exited the economic crisis for some time, Shalit comes home [...]
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Guest Post: The Difficult Choices Facing Obama
January 29, 2011By Eli LakeSo President Obama is pretty cold. The most important takeaway for me is that the U.S. president does not want to be seen with Hosni Mubarak, the second leading recipient of U.S. foreign aid for the last 30 years. He sends Robert Gibbs out to say that he doesn’t know if President Obama [...]
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In The Republic of Splintered Cedars
January 16, 2011Down in the Republic of Cedars, after a probe looked into the murder of Rafiq Hariri, Hezbollah ministers and their allies quit the Lebanese government, which has now been thrust into political turmoil. Hezbollah’s exit happened at the exact moment Hariri was in Washington holding talks with US President Barack Obama. The hard-won unity government [...]
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Akiva Eldar vs. AIPAC and “self-loving Jews”
December 20, 2010Following House resolution 1765, which I wrote about yesterday, Haaretz’s Akiva Eldar goes after AIPAC: The dominant view among the centrist group of the Jewish community – that “we support every Israeli government, right or wrong” – reminds one of a situation in which a parent finds out that his child [...]
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Internal Security Minister: Israel Not Enough of Police State Already, Tens of Thousands More Officers Needed, Weve Lost Control of Arab Sector
December 15, 2010Israel’s Internal Security Minister is doing what government ministers tend to do: he’s shilling for his fiefdom, seeking ever greater wads of government cash to pad his little portion of the kingdom. Yitzhak Aharonovitch is whining (though he protests: “I haven’t come here to whine, but rather to open eyes”) to the Knesset Budget Committee [...]
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Raul Castro celebrates Hanukkah with Cuban Jews
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You Are No Longer Free to Move About the Country
December 4, 2010Radley Balko reports on Homeland Security’s unquenchable desire to reach out and touch us — this time, before we get on trains and buses (h/t Jack Shafer): It’s not difficult to envision the day where anyone wishing to take mass transportation in this country will have to first submit to a government checkpoint, show ID, and [...]
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An Even Better, Though More Fatalistic, TSA Idea Than Kilts!
November 16, 2010I’m writing this at Reagan National, where a very nice woman from the TSA just complimented me on my shirt-and-tie combination (I’d take a picture of it, but I don’t know how, but you can see it tonight on the Colbert Report, on which I will make a brief appearance in order to discuss the [...]
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California’s Prop 23 Is Interesting Test Case of Progressives’ Agenda
November 1, 2010One of the most important votes in this most interesting of elections doesn’t offer a choice between two candidates for office. Instead, it’s a policy referendum that gives voters the chance to decide between two competing visions of government. The vote on California’s Proposition 23 will decide whether the state’s government can impose a draconian [...]
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Germany compensates forced labor victims
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Criticize Israel, but…
September 21, 2010There is nothing wrong with criticizing many of the policies of the current Israeli government — and those of the previous ones. And it is completely uncalled for to try to tar such critics as anti-Semites. Indeed, many Israeli citizens are more critical of their government than their American counterparts. However, such criticisms do turn [...]
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Hungary sued over art looted during Holocaust
August 1, 2010 -
Germany’s Responsibility
July 27, 2010Today member states of the European Union met in Brussels to finalize new sanctions against the Iranian regime. In today’s Los Angeles Times I published this piece calling on the government of Germany to do the right thing and lead the way in imposing crippling sanctions on Iran. A mere 70 years after the last [...]
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Change = alter the facts
July 14, 2010The latest Gallup numbers are in. Among independents, President Obama holds a 38 percent approval rating. That’s an 18-point difference from a year ago. The results aren’t surprising; high unemployment, bigger government, unpopular healthcare bill, reckless spending . . . the list goes on and on. After failing to solve these problems with their left-wing [...]