Posted on: April 1st, 2015

Indeed, some caucus members based their decision to stay away from Mr. Netanyahu’s speech on their contention that the Israeli leader had disrespected America’s first black president.

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Posted on: April 1st, 2015

These are fundamental issues for Israel’s security and yet Mr. Abbas refuses even to acknowledge them as grist for negotiations.

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Posted on: March 25th, 2015

In their zechus may we all come to appreciate that life is a fleeting gift and resolve to spend every precious moment of it as if it were the last.

Posted on: March 25th, 2015

In any event, Mr. Netanyahu after the election sought to soften his statement on Palestinian statehood and apologized for what he conceded were remarks that “offended some Israeli citizens and offended members of the Israeli Arab community.”

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Posted on: March 25th, 2015

A worthy idea any way you look at it.

Posted on: March 18th, 2015

But the letter was not delivered to the ayatollahs by special messenger, diplomatic pouch, regular mail, or even e-mail. In fact, it was not delivered to the ayatollahs at all.

Posted on: March 18th, 2015

If nothing really changes in the hearts and minds of the Palestinians, is Israel obligated to provide them and its other adversaries launching pads for attacks?

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Posted on: March 18th, 2015

Both Iran and Hizbullah are cited as playing major roles in fighting ISIS, which is described as constituting the preeminent terrorist threat to American interests worldwide.

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Posted on: March 11th, 2015

If there’s no deal, then we walk away.

Posted on: March 11th, 2015

But when you live in a tough neighborhood Israel should not be made to apologize for its strength.

Posted on: March 11th, 2015

The United States placed enormous pressure on Israel to relinquish its gains, which Prime Minister Ben-Gurion did with great reluctance.

Posted on: March 4th, 2015

The president has made clear – I can’t state this more firmly – the policy is Iran will not get a nuclear weapon.

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Posted on: February 25th, 2015

The real issue is that in many respects the president has sought to recalibrate American values and our system of government.

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Posted on: February 25th, 2015

Former Connecticut senator Joe Lieberman, writing in the Washington Post on Sunday, provided one of the clearest and most compelling analyses we’ve seen of the importance of the prime minister’s speech.

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Posted on: February 18th, 2015

Gone are the days when an anchorman sitting in a New York studio could, after sharing 22 minutes of carefully selected and edited news items, trumpet in stentorian tones, “And that’s the way it is.” No it wasn’t. It never was.

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Posted on: February 18th, 2015

President Obama has frequently cautioned that Americans should take great care to avoid fomenting anti-Muslim passions in our reaction to the murderous activities regularly being perpetrated by terrorists in the name of Islam. One wonders why, though, he seems to have no concern with the potential for anti-Semitic fallout from his full-court press against Israeli […]

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Posted on: February 11th, 2015

Some Jewish organizational types (most prominently the ADL’s Abe Foxman and the Reform movement’s Rabbi Rick Jacobs) have gone public with requests that Mr. Netanyahu cancel his speech for just those reasons.

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Posted on: February 11th, 2015

Typical of the administration’s milquetoast approach is the lack of any call for a substantial increase in military resources in order to crush ISIL, only a tepid mention of the need to “ultimately defeat” it.

Posted on: February 4th, 2015

Plainly, the Iranians have something President Obama desperately wants, apparently even at the expense of permitting Iran to eventually emerge as a nuclear military power.

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Posted on: February 4th, 2015

Indeed, Congressman Nadler asserted that “It would be very wise for both parties to this invitation to consider measures to mitigate the damage this political maneuvering has inflicted.”