And coming soon to a theater near you…
…the Iran Deal. Of course, we’ve heard before that it’s close to a done deal, and that hasn’t happened yet. But I think it probably will be finalized in the not-too-distant future.
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And let’s not forget the Iran deal
The Biden administration certainly hasn’t forgotten [emphasis mine]: Admittedly, the [Iranian] regime has more than once pumped the brakes on nuclear diplomacy. This intransigence signaled that Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the Islamic Republic’s supreme leader, may not have ever wanted an … Continue reading →
Reading the Mar-A-Lago raid tea leaves: it’s the Netanyahu lawfare gambit
Margot Cleveland speculates: NONE of the three criminal statutes used to justify the search require materials to be “classified”… Espionage Act’s plain language does not require material related to “national defense” to be classified. (Preliminary research confirms my reading but … Continue reading →
Parliamentary stirrings in two countries: France and Israel
The first is France: The left won a lot more seats. A new party, or really a new party coalition called “Nupes,” united the Socialists, Communists, hard left and greens, won somewhere between 149-200 seats, which is a lot more … Continue reading →
Caroline Glick on lawfare against Trump and against Netanyahu
Well worth reading.
Continue reading →How Israel protects its schools
How does Israel protect against school shootings?: Israel could not prevent attacks if its efforts were based solely on armed security guards at each school, he said. Israel “invests heavily in monitoring profiles of people,” Hazony continued. It has a … Continue reading →
If the Palestinians say it, they print it
Who is “they”? Why the MSM, of course. For as long as I’ve been blogging (and before), this has been the way it’s been. The latest involves the death of an Al Jazeera journalist: McKernan then uncritically repeats Al Jazeera’s … Continue reading →
Russia: we’re bravely fighting those Jewish Nazis here, there, and everywhere
Hatred of Jews isn’t a new thing for Russia, which in addition to all the rest of its propaganda has specialized in anti-Jewish propaganda for a long time. The Tsarist-era fabrication “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion” is the … Continue reading →
The Iran Deal – still pending
From Caroline Glick: Last week, the McLaughlin polling group published the results of a survey regarding Iran and the results leave no question about where the American people stand on Iran’s nuclear weapons program. A large majority of Americans strongly … Continue reading →
Ukraine, Russia, and Israel
It’s complicated: Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelensky declared Tuesday that, when the war is finally over, Ukraine would emerge from the rubble a “big Israel.” He meant that the war would never really be over, that Ukraine would be on a … Continue reading →
The vagaries of a parliamentary system may allow Netanyahu to return to power
A defection means that Bennett’s government has lost its fragile majority: Plunging the government into crisis, coalition whip Idit Silman announced Wednesday that she is quitting and will instead work to form a new, right-wing government without a resort to … Continue reading →
Arab states and Israel unite against the US
The policies of the Biden administration have done a lot for Israeli/Arab relations: A summit was held in Israel over the weekend between Bahrain, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, Morocco, Israel and the United States. The meeting was designed to … Continue reading →