How Do Trump and Netanyahu Get Away with Anything?
Different politicians wouldn’t have been able to bear the shame following the long list of reports about sexual harassment, illicit gifts, and embarrassing behavior. But Trump and Netanyahu? Don’t make them laugh, they just blame the media.
Perpetual Crisis
President Trump ordered it and the State Department compiled: “The US State Department confirmed it began withholding money it originally planned to provide the UN agency for Palestinian refugees.
Abbas, You Can’t Have Your Cake and Eat It, Too
The PA has long misappropriated the US and European aid to support jailed terrorists and their families, to the tune of more than half its annual budget.
Turkey Launches Major Campaign Against Kurdish Fighters in Northern Syria
The operation began as an air campaign on Saturday and expanded into a ground offensive on Sunday.
Looming Possibilities
There’s no end in sight to what can worry or frighten us. Hopefully, there will remain enough good sense in those with significant power to get us through the craziness from our enemies, friends, and fellow Jews.
The Moderate Palestinian Leader’s Lies
Mahmoud Abbas’ scathing speech was mostly a gift to the Israeli rightists who wants one big state; the Palestinian president is making it clear that he’s not a partner, that he refuses to recognize the Jews’ right to self-determination and that he is trapped in hallucinations, illusions, and lies.
Turkey, the Arab World is Just Not That into You
He runs around in a fake fire extinguisher’s outfit, holding a silly hose in his hands and knocking on neighbors’ doors to put out the fire in their homes. “Go away,” his neighbors keep telling him.
The Speech in Which Abbas Dug his Own Grave
Abbas understands that his house of cards, lacking Jerusalem and refugees, is about to collapse and disappear and with it all the plans to destroy Israel.
Wanted: A Counter-Iran Strategy
A common but mistaken reading of the current strategic situation in the Middle East presents the region as approaching the end of a period of instability. The “return of the Arab state” is one of the more arresting refrains that this perspective has produced.
Time to Impose Sanctions on the Palestinian Terror Authority
It is time to stop coddling Abbas and start treating the institution he heads in a manner befitting its promotion and encouragement of terrorist violence.