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Category Archives: Iran
William S. Lind: Obama Is Right About Iran
William S. Lind writes: Real conservatives hate war. War is the most expensive activity the state can engage in. Its outcome is always uncertain. Only revolution is a more powerful agent of social and cultural change, change conservatives exist to … Continue reading
Jewish Support For The Iran Deal
Pini Herman writes on FB: You may not see most of these people at the LA Jewish Federation….Could it be that they know its not the “big tent” it claims to be. The LA Federation machers even sidestepped it’s own … Continue reading
NYT: Reporting From Iran, Jewish Paper Sees No Plot to Destroy Israel
Larry Cohler-Esses is the best reporter on Jewish life and the Forward does much of its best journalism. The New York Times reports: The first journalist from an American Jewish pro-Israel publication to be given an Iranian visa since 1979 … Continue reading
Iran Vs Israel
How much of the kvetching about this potential American deal with Iran is just bargaining for advantage? I don’t know much about the Middle East and nuclear arms control, but all the heated rhetoric reminds me of the frightening talents … Continue reading
Iran vs Israel
David Hazony posts on FB: Pop quiz: Which of the following is most likely to be true: (a) The Iranian regime is increasing its hateful rhetoric because, in the event of a historic reconciliation with the West, they want to … Continue reading
Iran Will Get Nuclear Weapons
Chaim Amalek writes: “Of course Iran will get the Bomb, and the industrial infrastructure with which to manufacture them in quantity. It is the intelligent thing for them to do, as it was for North Korea and Pakistan. And then … Continue reading
The Terms Of The Nuclear Deal Seem Unfavorable To Iran
If this is the deal, it is unfavorable to the Iranians. Skeptics will ask — if the the sanctions are relaxed, will they return if the Iranians cheat? That is what Netanyahu, and the neocons in the U.S. will focus … Continue reading
‘Beer Talk’ From Blowhards: Pat Buchanan On Iran Hysteria
Ilana Mercer writes: “Are we going to be frightened by words from an Iranian blowhard?” Pat Buchanan tries to school Sean Hannity on the insignificance of Iran’s military as compared to American and Israeli might (and Bibi’s 200 plus atom … Continue reading
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Dennis Prager’s Pro-Israel Bias
Jack* emails: Dear Luke, I read the Dennis Prager posts you put up. It is important to realize that what underlies all of these posts is Dennis Prager’s strong bias in favor of Israel. He thinks he is being objective, … Continue reading
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Is Iran Mankind’s Enemy?
Dennis Prager writes: Iran today is America’s greatest enemy, Israel’s greatest enemy, the Jewish people’s greatest enemy and the greatest enemy of moral civilization. There is, apparently, no evil that the Iranian Islamic regime will not engage in to further … Continue reading
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