By: Sarah Stern and Kyle Shideler The Palestinian UN statehood bid — statehood without negotiations — which is now before the Security Council, is just the latest step in a never-ceasing effort by the Palestinian leadership to erase the State of Israel. This is the Two State Solution on the way to Hitler’s “Final...
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President Barack Obama took the opportunity while speaking before a crowd of thousands at the AIPAC annual meeting this week to reiterate his Middle East policy as presented in an earlier speech to the State Department — a speech which raised serious concerns among the pro-Israel policy community.  The general message of his remarks...
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(Cross-posted at EMET with Emmanuel’s Permission) By. Emmanuel Navon René Descartes’ Discours de la Méthode opens with one of the most nonsensical sentences ever written: « Common sense is the most evenly shared thing in the world. »  Then there is Immanuel Kant, who wrote in his Zum ewigen Frieden that republics are less...
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“The mosques are our barracks, the domes our helmets, the minarets our bayonets and the faithful our soldiers.” -Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan After last week’s unfortunate Gaza Flotilla crisis, orchestrated by members of a Turkish Islamist group, with reported ties to Hamas and Al Qaeda, on a Turkish vessel carrying a Turkish...
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AIPAC’s annual convention is a time of year when politicians put their best foot forward regarding their stance on Israel. That’s to be expected and there’s nothing wrong with that. But despite strong positive support at AIPAC from a wide variety of politicians across the political spectrum, there were a number of concerning misstatements...
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Also from Commentary this piece by Mark Steyn, which reflects a little on the loom threats to Europe which I mentioned briefly in my post on Oren’s article, as well as the existential threat Oren called delegitimization. (H/T Carl in Jerusalem): A European Holocaust Memorial Day on which Jews are stoned sounds like a...
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Newly minted Israeli Ambassador to the United States Michael Oren lays out in the new issue of Commentary just what is meant by an “existential” threat, and than details the seven such threats which face the state of Israel: Rarely in modern history have nations faced genuine existential threats. Wars are waged to change...
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