Posts Tagged: Barack Obama
Beware of Israel’s Critics
At his Times of Israel blog on September 24, University of Maryland Distinguished Professor Jeffrey Herf cites “the great American weakening, which has been the hallmark...
Whatever Happened to the Emergency Committee for Israel?
JNS.org - Ten years ago, it came in with a bang, but this spring, it disbanded without even a whimper. The Emergency Committee for Israel came...
Obama Endorses Democrat Biden’s 2020 Presidential Campaign
Former US President Barack Obama finally endorsed his vice president Joe Biden's presidential campaign on Tuesday in an effort to bring the Democratic Party together ahead of...
The Coronavirus Is No Reason to Let the Iranian Regime Off the Hook
JNS.org - The whole world is dealing with the spread of the coronavirus pandemic, but among the countries that have suffered the worst is Iran....
US-Israel Relations Still Hang by a Thread
Sometimes, history’s turning points depend on small things. The 2000 presidential election outcome hinged on the interpretation of “hanging chads” from a small number of...
The Trump Effect
The initial two and a half years of President Donald Trump’s national security policy have departed sharply from those of President Barack Obama, his predecessor...
Iran’s Time Is Up
JNS.org - US President Donald Trump’s last-minute decision to pull back from a retaliatory strike on Iran is nothing new in the annals of modern...
Israel’s Ex-US Envoy Says Jewish State at ‘Special Time in History’ Due to ‘Very Good Relationship’ With Trump Administration
Former Israeli Ambassador to the United States Zalman Shoval has lived the Jewish state’s short history as fully as almost any man. Born in Danzig...
Trump’s Love Affair with Israel and the Jewish People
As a Jew who travels extensively, I have found that being open about my Jewishness can be lonely. Refusing to make compromises on things like...
O Brave New (Repaired) World
Jonathan Neumann’s new book To Heal the World?: How the Jewish Left Corrupts Judaism and Endangers Israel is a scathing analysis of the pseudo-religion of “tikkun...
John McCain, Ex-POW and ‘Maverick Republican’ Dies at 81
US Senator John McCain, a former prisoner of war in Vietnam who ran for president in 2008 as a self-styled maverick Republican and became a...
Tikkun Olam Is the Enslavement of Judaism to Liberal Politics
On the second night of Passover in April 2009, several White House staffers gathered in the Old Family Dining Room for Seder night, the Jewish...
Trump Lays Waste to Obama’s Amoral Foreign Policy
It has been an incredible few weeks to be a lover of Israel. After eight years of tension with the Obama administration, Israel now has...
There’s More Than One Way to Trick an American
JNS.org – Is anyone really surprised that foreign nations think Jared Kushner is an easy mark? The presidential son-in-law and senior adviser was stripped of his “top...