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Category Archives: Israel
It’s Lobbying, but Is It Really pro-Israel?
M.J. Rosenberg wrote for Haaretz in 2007: Critics of “The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy” by John J. Mearsheimer and Steven M. Walt (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), cannot be surprised that the attacks on the book prior to publication … Continue reading
John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt – The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy
I was impressed by this presentation by the two political scientists. At the end, John J. Mearsheimer says: “The United States would care about Iran acquiring nuclear weapons even if there was no state of Israel. There are two reasons … Continue reading
Hey, What Ever Happened to the ‘Existential Threat’ of Iran?
JJ Goldberg writes: The recently retired chief of staff of the Israel Defense Forces, Lieutenant General Benny Gantz, gave an important talk this morning at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, summing up the current state of Israeli security. … Continue reading
You Belong In Israel
“No one belongs in Israel more than you.” Why haven’t the jew-hating goyim seized upon this Zionist marketing slogan?
Simon Wiesenthal Center Rabbis Support Strong Borders For Israel, But No Borders For America
Rabbis Abraham Cooper and Yitzhok Adlerstein write Sept. 21, 2015 for The Jerusalem Post: “There is no wiggle-room concerning the consequences of a one-state solution. Combined with a right of return for millions of Palestinians living for decades in Muslim … Continue reading
A Light Unto The Nations
Six months ago, I wrote: For ethno-nationalists, Israel is a shining light of what a determined people can accomplish, but I guess if Jews develop an ethno-state, that’s a good thing, but if goyim attempt to similarly develop their own … Continue reading
Jews & Immigration
David emails: Your blog is one of the must-reads on my RSS feed. I am Jewish and I am horrified by the American Jewish establishment’s open embrace of a policy of unrestricted invasion of our country (and, indeed, all Western … Continue reading
What About America’s Security?
Link: Barack Obama, June 4, 2008 (via Mangan’s): Now let me be clear. Israel’s security is sacrosanct. It is non-negotiable. . . . Any agreement with the Palestinian people must preserve Israel’s identity as a jewish state, with secure, recognized, … Continue reading
Israel’s Chief Rabbinate Blasts ‘Spiritually Dangerous’ Christian Event in Jerusalem
From Haaretz: Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi David Lau and Sephardic Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef say even though International Christian Embassy in Jerusalem are friends of Israel, the event undermines the state’s Jewish character. Why shouldn’t Gentile state argue that all sorts … Continue reading
Above & Beyond
This Netflix documentary describes the founding of the Israeli Air Force by secular American young men looking for sex, adventure and to help their people. These men had only the weakest ties to Judaism and to the Jewish people, but … Continue reading