Posts Tagged: Trump
Oregon’s Wildfires Force Mass Evacuations, Trump to Tour Scorched California
Deadly wildfires raging across Oregon kept half a million people under evacuation alert on Saturday as President Donald Trump announced plans to visit California for...
US Isolationism Leads to Globalization of Conflicts and Endless Wars
Localized conflicts are being globalized following a similar pattern of weakened or divided central government, factionalism, and proliferation of security and humanitarian issues. This trend...
Carter, Trump and Peacemaking
When I heard the news about the Israel-UAE agreement, my first thought was that this was a great diplomatic coup and a potentially game-changing event...
As Turkey Is Flooded With State-Sponsored Fake News, Confusion Abounds on America
In 2018, the Turkish police began to raid onion wholesalers on suspicion that they were artificially raising onion prices and trying to “illegally overthrow” the...
Trump Handed Syria to Turkish Dictator Erdogan and Helped ISIS in the Process
Former US president Barack Obama promised that if evidence emerged proving that Bashar al-Assad had used chemical weapons on the Syrian people, the US would...
Jews Cannot Stay Silent Amid American Bigotry
I have written many times that non-Jews have no business telling Jews what is and is not antisemitic. That is why, for example, we reject...
Making America Abandon Global Leadership
JNS.org - If I use the term “restrainer” what does that call to mind? A device that keeps an infant safe in the back seat...
Bolton’s Book Reveals Alarming News About Trump — Including in the Middle East
John Bolton’s book The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir is being examined with Talmudic precision, and it has a lot of tantalizing information...
Who Will Tell President Trump That His Place Is With the Victims of Racism?
In speaking to Jews from my grandparents’ generation, they often viewed policy decisions through the lens of religious self-interest. They asked, “Is it good for...
The Problem With Trump and Henry Ford’s ‘Good Bloodlines’
President Trump’s recent remark about Henry Ford’s “good bloodlines” has aroused curiosity and controversy. Trump actually is not the first president to subscribe to the...
A US Retreat From the World Would Be a Historic Mistake
The end of the Cold War, for reasons that had to do with American exceptionalism and also with Washington’s pragmatic decision not to pursue the...
Don’t Let Up the Pressure on Iran
JNS.org - The United States just announced that it will work to renew a 13-year-old arms embargo against Iran -- set to expire this October...
The ‘Getcha’ Sting
The Wall Street Journal’s op-ed page on May 1 attacked “The FBI’s Flynn Outrage,” but neglected an identical, if not greater, outrage that the FBI...
A Message to President Trump: Nothing Is More Important Than Preserving Life, Certainly Not the Economy
The primary value in Judaism and every religion is preserving life -- not the stock market, the economy, or a president's re-election bid. Preserving life. But...
