By David P. Goldman The Obama administration is baffled by the Egyptian government’s response to the Sept. 11 attack on the American embassy in Cairo. It took President Mohamed Morsi two days to denounce the assault on the embassy, and even then he placed the blame on a hitherto unnoticed clip posted on YouTube rather […]
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By David Brin ENCINITAS, California — Let’s start with a simple wager. During this election please count the number of times that Republican candidates actually run on their party’s record. How often do they speak of their periods in power, which were far more extensive than the Democrats’? Any statistically measurable accomplishments or proved positive effects?
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USABy Ben Cohen/JNS.org If you’re looking for an online aggregator of Israel-bashing articles, you could do a great deal worse than visit Open Zion, the website edited by the darling of America’s Jewish far left, Peter Beinart. All the obsessions of today’s anti-Zionists are neatly organized there, in the form of hand-wringing tracts about Rachel
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Middle EastObama says Egypt neither ally nor enemy as protests spread to Yemen (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) As violent anti-American protests spread to Yemen on Thursday, U.S. President Barack Obama said the U.S. “would not consider Egypt an ally, but we would not consider them an enemy.” In his first interview since the murder of U.S. Ambassador Chris
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InternationalBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — It is pathetic that a film so bad could involve deaths and the likelihood of more turmoil and bloodshed. Spend a few minutes looking at the trailer of what is call the Muhammad Movie, or as long as it takes to conclude that it is no better than juvenile in
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastWhite House denies rejecting Obama-Netanyahu meeting (JNS.org) Amid a reportedly increasing rift between the U.S. and Israel regarding how to deal with the Iranian nuclear threat, the White House denied reports that it declined a meeting that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu requested with President Barack Obama. According to a report in Haaretz, Netanyahu’s office reached out
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InternationalBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — You want irony? The most obvious problem on our horizon involves Iran seemingly intent on acquiring nuclear weapons, and the world’s greatest power claiming to have our interests at heart. but with a President and Secretary of State who are sounding like Neville Chamberlain. Another problem that may be equally
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By James Colbert WASHINGTON, D.C. –As the eleventh anniversary of 9/11 passes, the Administration considers al Qaeda all but defeated, and eagerly anticipates a downsized U.S. military and its reorientation to Asia and the Pacific. But, to paraphrase Mark Twain’s famous quip, reports of al Qaeda’s death are greatly exaggerated. Despite President Obama’s assertion, made
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USABy Peter Rothholz/JNS.org EAST HAMPTON, NY—For the first time since its founding in 1948, Israel is now the most dangerous place in the world for Jews. That is the assessment of Mort Zuckerman—editor in chief of U.S. News &World Report, publisher of the New York Daily News, and past chairman of the Conference of
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Middle EastNew intelligence shows Iran closer than ever to a bomb (JNS.org) The UN atomic watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), has received new and significant intelligence over the past month indicating that Iran is closer than ever to having the ability to build a nuclear weapon, The Associated Press (AP) reported, citing diplomatic
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InternationalBy Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org Israel was tight-lipped following Monday’s extensive revelations by The New Yorker magazine about the September 2007 bombing of a Syrian nuclear reactor which, according to foreign sources, was carried out by the Israel Air Force. Israel has never taken officially responsibility for the incident. Then-Chief of General Staff Lt. Gen. (res.)
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By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C–Jerusalem and the resettlement of Palestinian refugees disappeared from the Democratic Party platform; language that characterized Hamas as unacceptable to the United States — not only to Israel — disappeared. Jerusalem is back. But the crucial part of the Democratic Party Platform for Israel is related only tangentially to Israel. It
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By Isaac Yetiv , Ph. D. LA JOLLA, California — It used to be a show, a parade of flags and balloons with some tense anticipation of the selection of the nominee. It has become a farce — some called it a circus, a melodrama, a soap opera– a very expensive display of sheer hypocrisy and vile
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USACommentary by Clemens Heni BERLIN — On Sunday, September 9, 2012, the first ever rally favoring circumcision and Jewish (and Muslim) life in Germany was held in Berlin. In May 2012 a Cologne court had ruled against a Muslim circumcision and generalized that the rights of children are threatened by every single circumcision, regardless at
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