Posts Tagged: Israel Obama
The Ben-Gurion Legacy: Independent National Security Policy
The legacy of Israel’s first prime minister, David Ben-Gurion, contradicts conventional wisdom. It rejects the assumption that a White House “green light” is a prerequisite...
The Year in Review: 10 Israel News Stories That Defined 2016
JNS.org - President Barack Obama sprang his much-anticipated “December surprise” on Israel at the United Nations last week, capping off 2016 with a bang as it...
We Must Unite Against Obama’s Israel Policy
US President Barack Obama continues to ignore the catastrophic global repercussions of his flawed policies toward the Middle East, where hundreds of thousands of Arabs...
Jewish Democrat Cardin Opposes Iran Deal After Senate Approval in Hand
JNS.org - U.S. Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Md.), who is Jewish and serves as the top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, announced Friday that he...
Obama Meets With Top American Jewish Leaders to Gain Support for Iran Deal
JNS.org - President Barack Obama met with some of the leaders of America's largest Jewish organizations on Monday in a bid to gain their...
Obama’s Mistaken Assumptions About Israel and Peace
The American Heritage dictionary defines "victory" as the defeat of an enemy or triumph in a struggle against difficulties. "Peace," on the other hand,...
Hanukkah and the Lessons of International Pressure Against Israel
What induced Antiochus Epiphanes to attempt to eradicate Judaism? Some speculate that he had his own political motives. However, he initially had good relations with...
Speaker Boehner Condemns Obama Administration’s Rhetorical Attacks on Netanyahu
House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) issued the following statement after senior officials in the Obama administration launched profanity-laced rhetorical attacks on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin...
Obama Defends Killing Civilians – When the U.S. is Doing the Killing
The rules for Israel are, as always, different than the rules for the rest of the world. From The New Yorker, January 27, 2014: "I think any President...
Limited Options for U.S. as Israeli-Hamas Conflict Escalates
JNS.org - With Israel and Hamas mired in their latest conflict, United States officials have been mulling their limited options to broker a cease-fire,...
Israeli Official Says U.S. Spying Report ‘Smells’ of Anti-Semitism
Arutz Sheva - Israeli officials denounced on Tuesday evening a report in Newsweek which said that American intelligence officials have linked the U.S. visa crisis to Israeli espionage. The report cited these...
Obama Treats Ally Israel Worse Than Enemy Dictatorships
Earlier this month, it leaked that Israel's Defense Minister, Moshe Ya'alon, had privately described Secretary of State John Kerry as "obsessive and messianic" in his quest...
Three Ugly Memes About Jews and Israel
JNS.org - Here are three disturbing memes about Jews and Israel that I've noticed in three separate-but-related news stories recently. Meme Number One: "You're...
At Tense Time for U.S.-Israel Relations, University of Haifa Program Inspires Lively Debate
JNS.org - HAIFA—On Nov. 20, students, administrators, professors, and honored guests at the University of Haifa anxiously awaited to hear keynote speaker Daniel B....
