Tension in the Middle East

November 2nd, 2023
By: Jakub Grygiel – wsj.com – November 1, 2023 Simultaneous crises are threatening global stability and taxing U.S. power and attention. Russia’s war in Ukraine, Hamas and Iran’s aggression against Israel and China’s threats in the Pacific are all products of the grand ambitions of evil imperial regimes. The first is that leaders are responsible for wars and these countries...
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November 2nd, 2023
“Israel is a country that has no place in our land,” Hamas official Ghazi Hamad told the Middle East’s LBC International news network on Tuesday. “We must remove that country.”
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November 2nd, 2023
By: Matthew Hennessey – wsj.com – November 1, 2023 Islamophobia is again the obsession of progressives and the media. “I know many of you in the Muslim-American community, the Arab-American community, the Palestinian-American community, and so many others, are outraged, saying to yourself, here we go again with Islamophobia and distrust we saw after 9/11,” President Biden said in his...
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November 1st, 2023
By: Michael Brendan Dougherty – nationalreview.com – October 31, 2023 Hamas’s atrocities already are being forgotten, interred in false equivalencies. Every 9/11 memorial I’ve seen seems to include the words “Never Forget.” I remember that the phrase, so closely associated with the Holocaust, shook me up. But it also felt superfluous. I used to think: How could I? The September 11...
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November 1st, 2023
By: Andrew C. McCarthy – nationalreview.com – October 31, 2023 Our David Zimmermann has reported on FBI Director Chris Wray’s acknowledgment in today’s Senate testimony that antisemitic threats are reaching historic highs. Wray has further testified that terrorist threats against the United States have also skyrocketed. The increase is obviously triggered by the outbreak of war in the Middle East,...
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October 30th, 2023
Your intentions were noble. You wanted to make the country and the world a better place. You wanted to be more enlightened than your narrow-minded parents. From your perspective — influenced by teachers and professors — your parents and grandparents are the reason we live in a systemically racist, oppressive country.
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October 30th, 2023
By: Rich Lowry – nationalreview.com – October 29, 2023 The Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in the Old City of Jerusalem sits atop the site of the Second Temple, the central place for Jewish worship before its destruction during the Roman siege of Jerusalem in 70 C.E. One wonders if any of the people braying about the alleged “settler colonialism” of Israel...
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October 26th, 2023
By: Charles C. W. Cooke – nationalreview.com – October 26, 2023 Do you remember what it was like to visit a website in the summer of 2020? It didn’t matter what the purpose of the site was — banking, shopping, cloud services. For a while, it was almost guaranteed that, somewhere on the homepage or the log-in screen, there would...
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October 26th, 2023
For Israel, more delays in invading Gaza and destroying Hamas’ ability to commit new acts of terror against the Jewish state is only one of several considerations faced by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his military leaders.
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October 25th, 2023
With one exception, nothing about Oct. 7 surprised me. The one exception was Israel’s unpreparedness.
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