RJC Confab Questions Declining Democratic Support for Israel and Role of Nonpartisan Groups
American Jewish organizations trying to maintain bipartisan support for Israel must decide between sustaining pro-Israel policies and alienating Democrats. The Republican Jewish Coalition has no such limitations.
Is there a Future in Bipartisan Advocacy for Israel?
Nikki Haley’s demand that AIPAC snub Democrats who aren’t fully supportive of Israel won GOP applause. Still, efforts to preserve or revive what’s left of a shattered consensus must continue.
Eating Knesset Candy and Drinking the Kool-Aid
The whole lollipop-licking plenum looked as puerile last week as it’s been sounding, with childish verbiage and decibel levels not even fit for a playground.
Netanyahu vs. Olmert: Comparing Chalk and Cheese
While it may be inappropriate for someone under criminal indictment to be a candidate for or serve as prime minister, it is far more inappropriate for him/her to be precluded from doing so by abuse of the legal system.
Hypocritical Israeli Coalition Politics Get Ugly
In the battle for political survival, anything goes. As the threat to Jerusalem goes unchallenged, the government OKs funding for Hamas while Netanyahu encourages thuggery at the Western Wall.
The Mireille Knoll Murder Trial: Will France Deliver Justice this Time?
Even if it does, it won’t be forgotten that it took place in the shadow of the violent anti-Semitic murder of another Jewish woman, Sarah Halimi, who killer was set free.
Jerusalem Matters
From the 1840’s, the US had a consulate in Jerusalem, then under the Ottoman Empire.
Bennett’s Diplomatic Tsunami
Captive to his post-Zionist and anti-Zionist coalition partners, Israel’s foreign policy under Prime Minister Naftali Bennett is predicated on making far-reaching concessions.
Hamas’s Growing Role in Iran’s Scheme to Encircle Israel
Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, released a statement calling for “the unity of Muslims” as a precondition for solving “the Palestinian problem in the best manner.”
ADL’s “Anti-Hate” Speaker Accused Israel of “Ethnic Cleansing”
The Anti-Defamation League’s upcoming international conference on combatting hate will include a speaker who has publicly accused Israel of perpetrating “ethnic cleansing” against the Palestinian Arabs.