American Jews, who have been running away from Judaism for the past three generations, are upset that Israel has embraced the normative Judaism they worked so hard to suppress…

By David P. Goldman, PJ MEDIA (Spengler)

I should like to advance a conjecture which I lack the qualifications to adequately develop: The global Left, and the Israeli Left most of all, perceives that the clock is running out, and has worked itself up into a froth of hysteria against Israel. The world of John Lennon’s “Imagine,” where there are no countries and no religions, is about to dissipate like last night’s marijuana fumes. The demographic time bomb that worries the Left is not the relative increase of Arab vs. Jewish populations between the Mediterranean and the Jordan River, speciously cited by John Kerry and a host of other errant utopians: it is the growth of the Jewish population itself, and Israel’s transformation into the world’s most religious country.
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“Boycott is a very tough word. To boycott means to completely block cooperation and trade between countries. We are not speaking about such a boycott,” says Martin Schulz.

By Michael Widlanski, AMERICAN THINKER

President Barack Obama said he did not want just to be president but a “transformational president,” and as he starts his sixth year in office, one must acknowledge how he has transformed both the presidency and America itself.

Under Obama, the executive branch abused power beyond what got Richard Nixon out of office on the threat of impeachment. It sent spy agencies after U.S. citizens and reporters, used tax authority to hurt political foes, and dispatched the Justice Department to aid friends (Black Panthers or Muslim groups) and to punish/threaten those it viewed as unfriendly.
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By CAROLINE B. GLICK, JPOST

For its decision to pull anchor last Friday on its bid to pass new sanctions on Iran, AIPAC has been accused of slavish devotion to bipartisanship. Although the criticism is not without foundation, it is probably undeserved in this case.

AIPAC did not cut and run from the Iran sanctions fight because it consecrates two-party initiatives. It walked away because it lost.

If the Republicans controlled the Senate, it’s possible that AIPAC would have maintained its support for the bill’s immediate passage even in the face of President Barack Obama’s pledge to veto any sanctions law. But since the Democrats control the Senate, the bill was dead without Democratic support.

Once President Obama coerced Senate Democrats into ending their support for the bill’s passage, he killed the bill. And he didn’t kill it by making it a partisan bill per se. He killed it by making it impossible to pass the bill through the Senate.
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By Gil Ronen, INN

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu convened a secret discussion regarding the BDS threat to Israel, and did not invite the ministers of Yesh Atid and Hatnua to the session, reportedMaariv‘s Eli Berdenstein Monday. 

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The U.S. has continually shrunk from confronting Iranian aggression

By James A. Lyons, WASHINGTON TIMES

There is no question that American interests in the Middle East are facing their gravest threats. The genesis for the current turmoil goes back many years with its roots in the Carter administration. Each subsequent administration contributed to the turmoil, particularly that of President Obama.

There were key events, actual acts of war against the United States that, had we responded with the required military action, could have changed the course of history.

The first occurred under President Carter when we undercut our key ally, the Shah of Iran, and facilitated the return and rule of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and his Islamic fundamentalist regime. Read more…

By Barak Ravid, HAARETZ

Senior Habayit Hayehudi officials struck back at Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman Sunday morning over comments he made in recent days against the party’s leader and in defense of U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry.

“Lieberman is zigzagging,” the senior officials said, “We hope his zigzagging ride stops soon. Then we’ll know if his opinions are closer to Michael Ben-Ari or Tzipi Livni,” referring to leaders of the ultra-right-wing Otzma Leyisrael party and center-left Hatnauh party.
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By Ted Belman (originally published by American Thinker)

For the last 30 years, the US has been pushing Israel to withdraw from all territories occupied as a result of the six day War in 1967. In doing so, they are running contrary to the UNSC Res 242 that permitted Israel to remain in occupation until she had secure and recognized borders.

In 2002 as the US was preparing to invade Iraq, she began  negotiations for the creation  of a Palestinian state and the roadmap to get there.

As a result , Pres Bush delivered his “vision speech” in  which he committed the US to support the creation of a Palestinian state subject to certain provisos, namely, that they  “build a practising democracy, based on tolerance and liberty.” and they stop “encouraging, not opposing, terrorism”. These preconditions have not remotely been met.

The Roadmap was presented  in 2003 just days after the invasion of Iraq  began.  It is obvious that the two were linked.
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By Ted Belman

DEBKA has a very informative and disturbing post this morning on the negotiations. I will intersperse my comments.

Breaking new diplomatic ground, Kerry is pressing the Israeli prime minister and Palestinian leader to submit in writing their views and reservations on the US positions he put before them in private, one-on-one conversations. He proposes to embody their comments in a non-binding paper to be the framework for further negotiations.

First of all, why isn’t it binding especially when everyone is not forthcoming with concessions. Or perhaps the idea is that nothing is agreed until everything is agree. If there is no agreement after 9 months why continue the negotiations. On the other hand, Israel would buy more time. Or Bibi believes there is a chance for a deal if he concedes some more.

Kerry actually said they could accept it “with reservations”. We’ve heard that one before.
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Officials said the Israeli military has acknowledged the failure to stop or significantly reduce the infiltration of Palestinians from the West Bank. They said the multi-billion-dollar security barrier along the West Bank has not hampered Palestinians from illegal residence in the Jewish state.

“Every day, more and more young Palestinians cross into Israel without any trouble and find apartments and jobs without any difficulty,” an official said. “The terrorist groups have used this to plant their own people for sleeper and operational cells.”
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The abysmal political situation emerging today underscores the inability of a hopelessly naïve and incompetent Right to contend with an unscrupulously malevolent and delusional Left.