Weighing Trump’s and Harris’ policies toward Israel

We can envision Donald J. Trump wagging his forefinger as did Pakistani restauranter Babu from Seinfeld when the former president proclaimed, “The Democrats are very bad to Israel, very bad.” Read more

Kamala Harris is the “pro-Jewish candidate” in this year’s U.S. presidential election

Zealots — true believers — are far worse than merely dangerous. They can be, to seriously mix metaphors here, ideological pied pipers who lead gullible, not to say dumb, lemmings into the sea. Read more

Why most American Jews will and should vote for Kamala Harris

Caroline Glick, the former Jerusalem Post columnist who authored a pro-Trump, anti-Harris hit piece published by J-Wire a few days ago, views the world through such a hardline right-wing prism that a point-by-point refutation of her article, while probably fun to write, would not be particularly instructive. Read more

Kamala Harris wants it both ways on Israel

Since she became the presumptive nominee of the Democratic Party for the presidency in the last week, backers of Vice President Kamala Harris have been doing their best to redefine her image. Read more

Kamala Harris thinks campus antisemites are very fine people

One of the inevitable results of President Joe Biden’s disastrous debate performance last month and subsequent refusal to drop out of the 2024 presidential race in November is the increasing attention being paid to his running mate. Read more

Trump writes off UN two-state solution

Former President Donald Trump has rejected UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres’s mantra to create a Palestinian Arab state between Jordan and Israel during Trump’s wide-ranging interview in Time on 30 April. Read more

Is Trump really abandoning Israel?

Has Donald Trump turned on Israel? That’s the question some people have been asking in the wake of an interview he gave to Israel Hayom. Read more

Ex-Prime Minister Ehud Barak confirms Israel has nuclear weapons: Why it matters

Former Prime Minister Ehud Barak broke Israel’s policy of ambiguity and tweeted his confirmation that Israel possesses nuclear weapons on Tuesday. Read more

How Benny Gantz killed Israeli-Palestinian peace

In an interview with Maariv last week, former Israeli Air Force commander Amir Eshel made several startling admissions about the role he and other IDF generals played in scuttling former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s most significant strategic policies. Read more

Trump-Netanyahu legacy eclipses rancour over phone call to Biden

Former US President Trump’s unforgiving anger with former Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu over Netanyahu’s congratulatory call to President Biden following Biden’s election win in November 2020 – must not be allowed to detract from or bury Trump’s self-styled Deal of The Century (“Vision”) released on 28 January 2020. Read more

Trump and Netanyahu: Allies no longer?

For both fans and foes of America’s former President Donald Trump and Israel’s former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the two leaders appeared to share certain features. Read more

Olmert goes in to bat for Netanyahu

Former Israeli PM Olmert defended Netanyahu following former US President Donald Trump’s explicit remarks critiquing him: “Trump is pathetic, it’s crazy”. Read more

Israel’s post-American strategic challenge

A report last week about the discussions Israel and the United States are now holding regarding the Iranian nuclear program was nothing short of an earthquake. Read more

In addressing antisemitism, honesty matters

A couple of years ago after giving a speech, I was confronted with what struck me as a bizarre query during the question-and-answer period. Read more

Envoy will first need to root out antisemitism in the Democratic Party

U.S. President Joe Biden’s choice of Emory Professor Deborah Lipstadt as America’s Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism has not been greeted with the unqualified approval that might have been expected for such an appointment. Read more

Fatah official: ‘Criminal jackass’ Trump thrown into garbage bin of history

Senior Palestinian official Jibril Rajoub said in a recent interview that U.S. President Donald Trump, whom he referred to as a “criminal jackass,” had been thrown in the garbage bin of history, and that those Arab leaders that have normalized relations with Israel will share his fate. Read more

Trump will not let UN, PLO and Biden bury his Peace Plan

The Trump-haters are circling Trump’s liferaft promising a comprehensive Middle East peace – but Trump can repel their determined efforts to sink it if he is not nominated as President when the Electoral College votes on 14 December. Read more

Palestinians sigh in relief after Biden victory: ready to resume negotiations and coordination without preconditions

A sigh of relief and satisfaction, disgust for President Donald Trump and anticipation of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s weakening, along with fears of renewed tension between Fatah and Hamas – this is how the Palestinian arena reacted to Joe Biden’s victory. Read more

Poll: 83% of Orthodox Jews would vote for Trump

If the U.S. elections were held today—three weeks before the Nov. 3 election—83% of Orthodox Jews would vote for U.S. President Donald Trump, according to a poll released on Wednesday. Read more

Trump triumphs as PLO continues to dig its own grave

President Trump’s announcement on 11 September that Israel would shortly be signing a peace treaty with a fourth Arab State – Bahrain – and possibly several others very soon – has triggered a spiteful response from Saeb Erekat, Secretary of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). Read more

Jewish and pro-Israel groups welcome Israel-Bahrain normalization agreement

Jewish and pro-Israel groups instantly applauded Israel and Bahrain for agreeing on Friday to normalize relations between the two countries—the second of its kind between Israel and a Persian Gulf nation in the wake of the United Arab Emirates. Read more

When rabbis should not keep quiet

The former chief rabbi of the United Kingdom, Jonathan Sacks, has come in for some stick over remarks he recently made about religion and politics. Read more

Trump vows new Iran deal ‘within four weeks’ if re-elected

U.S. President Donald Trump vowed that if re-elected in November, there would be a new deal with Iran “within four weeks.” Read more

How Iran illustrates the fallacy of social-media censorship

Israeli human-rights attorney and Zionist advocate Australian-Israeli Arsen Ostrovsky hit the nail on the head during a recent Knesset committee hearing about social media. Read more

Green light on Judea and Samaria is key to Trump’s re-election

President Trump’s chances of winning another term in November could well turn on his publicly endorsing Israel to immediately implement his Peace Plan restoring Jewish sovereignty in 30% of Judea and Samaria (aka West Bank) after an absence of 3000 years. Read more

Who checks Twitter’s Trump fact-checkers?

Many cheered this week when they saw that Twitter had added a warning label to two of President Donald Trump’s tweets. Read more

PLO continues to denigrate Trump peace plan and ignore elections

The Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) has cranked up its propaganda machine to continue denigrating President Trump’s deal of the century – as a joint US-Israel Mapping Committee is finalising those areas in Judea and Samaria on Trump’s map where Jewish sovereignty can be restored after 3000 years. Read more

Gantz faces moment of truth after meeting Trump

Blue and White Party leader – Benny Gantz – could well see his dream of becoming Israel’s next Prime Minister on 2 March implode after meeting with President Trump at the White House this coming week. Read more

Jewish and pro-Israel groups, US politicians react to death of IRGC Quds Force Qassem Soleimani

For the most part, Jewish and pro-Israel groups reacted positively to the U.S. elimination of the head of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ Quds Force, Maj. Gen, Qassem Soleimani, in a U.S. airstrike in Iraq on Thursday. Read more

Netanyahu lauds elimination of Soleimani by US forces

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hailed the elimination on Thursday of the head of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ Quds Force, Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani, by the United States. Read more

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