“There needs to be a groundswell of activism and advocacy demanding the elimination of this gross form of discrimination against the Jewish state, and by extension, the Jewish people,” head of UN Watch says.
While Republicans have been more inclined to weave faith into their rhetoric, particularly since the rise of the evangelical Right in the 1980s, several current Democratic White House hopefuls are explicitly linking their views on policy to religious values.
The fact that no one in the chain of the command tried to assign blame for the botched Gaza mission is testimony to the quality of the IDF's special ops personnel. Now that secret and vital branch of the military has a chance to reinvent itself.
Five years removed from Operation Protective Edge in Gaza, the current assessment in Israel is that Hamas is restrained and deterred from engaging in a broad military conflict. Regardless, the next round of fighting is almost inevitable and won't resemble its predecessors.
The twin issues of Iran and North Korea illustrate how the isolationist Right and the universalist Left march hand in hand.
Palestinians’ rights matter when targeted by Israel, but not when targeted by the Palestinian Authority. And Israeli rights never matter, except when violated by Israel.
“The maximum pressure campaign is working,” says Mark Dubowitz, CEO of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. “It’s always good to weaken your enemy – not strengthen them.” The question is whether Tehran will test that theory.
The dream of generations – the fulfillment of which the Jews in Israel are bringing to pass – was not for a 9-mile-wide coastal strip, sans the Judea and Samaria hill country heartland and historic Jerusalem.
Israeli strikes on targets in Syria indicate that Iran and its Lebanese proxy, Hezbollah, were involved in a major new weapons development or smuggling project, possibly aimed at giving the Shiite terrorist group new precision missile capabilities with which it can target strategic Israeli sites.
Nuclear weapons are at the heart of the difficult US relations with both Pyongyang and Tehran. But it's in North Korea where Trump has more leeway and perhaps a greater chance of striking a deal.
