When human rights become acceptable collateral damage
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.
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.
Iran's announcement it was intentionally violating the 2015 nuclear deal has made it clear that in many ways, we are seeing a return to the overt and covert race that was waged between Jerusalem and Tehran earlier this decade.
Like just about every other policy question facing the United States, Iran is now viewed solely through a political lens.
Without a coordinated plan, the military’s buildup would resemble "an orchestra" in which "everyone does what they want, and the noise is terrible," former military official warns.
This year’s meeting in Jerusalem hosted 350 pro-Israel and Jewish leaders and activists from 40 countries, with the goal of strengthening and consolidating the global pro-Israel advocacy network.
If the parties fail to form meaningful partnerships that combine forces to pass the electoral threshold, the Right is at risk of seeing seven or more mandates go to waste, thereby preventing Netanyahu from being able to form a right-wing, nationalist government.
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