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Israel Should NOT be Stuck with a “Fair Fight” Against Hezbollah

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This fight must be to win.

Defense Round Up: U.S. Showing Weakness Abroad

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The U.S. is being made to look weak in Egypt, and is actually acting weak with allies and foes alike.

Rock, Hard Place, Syria

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We're asking U.S. troops to go into Syria without an overwhelming advantage, and without minimizing our risks.

Attacks on Israel and One on an Arms Factory in Sudan

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In the early dawn of 24 October, an arms factory in Sudan was attacked in the Yarmouk Industrial Complex approximately 6 miles south of central Khartoum. Video of the exploding building makes it clear that it was an arms factory, with an extended series of powerful secondary explosions characteristic of ammunition dumps. A Sudanese official claims that four Israeli aircraft conducted a strike on the factory.

In Clear Attempt to Sabotage U.S. Relations, Intel-Leakers Tell Media What Trump Did NOT...

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Bottom line: Trump didn’t expose sensitive information about intelligence sources and methods. (Keep that in mind. Trump has not exposed anything.)

Team Obama: ‘Too Politically Sensitive’ to Evacuate US Personnel in Iraq

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There is now NO possible explanation for not evacuating at least non-essential personnel from the U.S. embassy and consulates in Iraq.

Apology is NOT Enough: House Democrats must Sanction Ilhan Omar

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In America, Ilhan Omar has the right to express anti-Semitic views, using, if she chooses, the same anti-Semitic themes as Nazi propagandists. Her constituents in Minnesota have the right to elect her to Congress. But that doesn’t mean any of them has a right to any committee assignments for Omar in the House of Representatives, much less choice ones like the House Foreign Affairs Committee.

The Art of “Gray-Hull Diplomacy”

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How should an American president use the military in an intimidating, persuasive manner, to induce Iran to give up her nuclear-weapons purpose? Very little has been discussed on this topic in the forums of punditry; virtually all treatments focus on the feasibility or proper method of a military attack campaign. Is there an “intimidation option,” short of a shooting war? And if so, what would it look like?

Nuke talks: Iran Keeps Holding Out for a More Complete Surrender From the West

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Dear Pres. Obama, A “deal” in which one side makes all the concessions is, of course, a “surrender.”

Mexico’s Probable Next President: ALL World’s Migrants have ‘Human Right’ to Live in US

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AMLO is all for tearing down borders – except that of course Mexico gets to have them, and rely on them to protect policies on economics and other issues. Mexico moreover gets to use the power of the nation-state to … well, not to put it too delicately, to extort the United States.

Short-circuit: Trump Hacks the ‘Deep State’

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The long and short of the "Trump/Russia-election" line of attack is that the Obama Democrats can’t run it without implicating every unsightly thing the Obama administration did to set it up.

Game change: Russia Can Now Warn Israel Against IAF Operations Over Syria

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Israel has never faced the reality of Russia potentially vetoing its air defense decisions

New UK Foreign Minister Compared Hillary to ‘Sadistic Nurse in a Mental Hospital’

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However long Boris struts and frets on the world stage, he’ll be by far the most entertaining Official Foreign Minister out there--And by no means the most foolish.

Nouveau Sheesh: Obamas Preen for Hollande

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Could the Obamas be any more “let ‘em eat cake”?

2016: Effective, Well Done, a Caveat or Two

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Dinesh D’Souza’s film, 2016: Obama’s America, is very good at putting the viewer in the milieu of Jakarta or Nairobi, which continue to feel “different” enough to engage the American viewer’s sense of distance and wonder. Conveying the difference of Barack Obama’s childhood and his idea of cultural roots – the difference from American life – is the movie’s most effective accomplishment.

Main Stream Media Failure: Pope did NOT call Mahmoud Abbas an ‘Angel of Peace

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"...the Pope did the exact opposite of what the media reported: he urged Abbas to change his ways.”

The Heat is On: Options for Deterrence in the Middle East

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To re-seize the initiative and get deterrence going

While Media Repeated ‘********’, Trump Altered Policy on Iran, Hezbollah

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As long as the mainstream media have rumors of geniuses and *********to combat, they may not be able to mount a concerted, thematic counter-effort against Trump’s actual policy moves.

All We Know for Sure is that Boston Will Rise

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It is not obvious that any group or type of person in particular mounted this one, nor can any be ruled out.

Israel, Hamas, PA Encounter the Paradigm Shift

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No summary of today’s events would be complete without mentioning the backstory on the IDF’s operation name.

‘Trump Effect’ Takes Iran: Regime Carpets Country with American and Israeli Flags

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Probably the most overlooked aspect of the “flags on the sidewalk” phenomenon in Iran is that, as the regime paints those flags everywhere, hoping Iranians will step on them, it is basically symbolizing its – the regime’s – effective “occupation” by its obsession with the Great Satan and the Little Satan.

Cry Havoc: Iran Builds Land Bridge to Syria

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The pretext for Iran, as always (since 2014), is “defeating ISIS.” Iran has exploited this strategic pretext in order to gobble up the territory that will form her land bridge.

Dead in the Water: Obama’s Military and Iran

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It is unconscionable of Obama to handle the sequestration threat the way he has - crippling our ability to readily strike Iran.

Divide-istan: Straight Talk about Breaking up the USA

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The impetus for a break-up depends mostly on how badly "RED" America wants to escape the repressive policy overreach of "BLUE" America.

The Obama Administration’s Attack on the US Financial System

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The Obama administration wants to take over the short-term financial services industry.

Eyes on the Ball, Folks: SCOTUS has Ruled Congress Can Make Us Buy Stuff

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Understand this: it doesn’t matter if ObamaCare is repealed next year. Repeat as necessary until understood. The SCOTUS ruling is on the books. Congress can make you buy anything, as long as it fines you if you don’t. The concept of constitutional limits on the power of government has been effectively removed from our guiding idea of law and jurisprudence.

Most Pointless Peace Talks Ever?

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If we should have learned anything since January 2011, it’s that Middle Eastern unrest is growing because of a good half a dozen really important things other than “Israel.”

J.E. Dyer: Implications of the New ‘Tax-Mandate’ in Obamacare

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This is what a tax now looks like? This is an open invitation to “tax” via whatever mandate sounds good to you. What sort of unequal-before-the-law mandate would not fit this definition of a tax? Congress can do anything it wants, by the logic of this decision, with the judicial precedent set that levying mandates equals using the power to tax.

Israel’s ‘Not Routine’ Strike on Syrian Special Weapons Facility Confirmed by Imagery

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Israel is in this as a fight for her existence, and will not be deterred or limited by the military arrangements of others. Put more bluntly, Russia’s interests in Syria, and effective control of Syrian airspace, will not hold a veto over Israel’s strategic latitude.