The contour lines of an approaching scenario in which Biden, exposed as both frail and mendacious, is forced to step down & concede the presidency to his radical Vice President, are gradually coming into focus. A significant portion of the public does not believe that the November 3, 2020, presidential …
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Into the fray: Targeted killings: The legality vs. the morality.
Arguably, the most galling reaction to the targeted killing of Iranian nuclear scientist, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, came from John Brennan, Director of the CIA under the Obama administration Startling evidence that members of the former Obama administration simply inhabit a parallel universe over Iran has been revealed in their reaction to …
Read More »Into the fray: The GOP-Still bringing a knife to a gunfight.
Republicans need to urgently hone their skills in waging political warfare—especially with the upcoming runoffs in Georgia that will determine which party controls the U.S. Senate. I’ve been active in the Republican party for a very long time. So I think I can say with some knowledge: Republicans play badminton; …
Read More »Into the fray: US and Israeli Jews deeply divided on life and death issues.
The policy preferences of much of US Jewry seem even more paradoxically perverse—as they are undeniably lending support to political regimes that comprise the diametric opposite of the enlightened liberal values the purport to cherish. The dichotomy over the US elections between Jews in America and Jews in Israel is …
Read More »INTO THE FRAY: Indicting Netanyahu – The unintended consequences.
The recent release of taped telephone conversations underscores the bitter irony that the politically motivated initiative to indict Netanyahu on contrived charges will end up by undermining precisely those who launched it & were complicit in conducting it. There is something sick in the State Prosecutor’s Office; Shai Nitzan is …
Read More »Into the fray: Replacing RBG – Delinquent Democrats deserve no quarter.
There is a bitter & infuriating irony in the fact that it was the Democrats themselves, who committed the very transgressions they endeavored to attribute to their Republican adversaries … it is necessary for a prince, wishing to hold his own, to know how to do wrong…he need not …
Read More »Into the fray: Oslo as political Kryptonite.
For the Labor Party, the fall from the heights of political hegemony to the depth of political oblivion is a fitting fate for the perpetration of the Oslo Accords, which ran counter to every prevailing Zionist norm of the time Kryptonite: Something that can seriously weaken or harm a particular …
Read More »Into the fray: Israel’s national imperative: “Keep your powder dry.”
While the normalization with the UAE could definitely entail significant benefits for Israel it is still somewhat premature to celebrate the onset of lasting amity—rather than enmity—in the region. Put your trust in God, my boys, but mind to keep your powder dry – attributed to Oliver Cromwell, prior to …
Read More »Into the fray: Why the “Right” insists on bringing knives to gunfights.
Although it has ostensibly been in power for much of the post Oslowian era, it is clear that the “Right” has not internalized the exigencies of political warfare. To bring a knife to a gunfight: To enter into a confrontation…without being adequately equipped or prepared.—Phrases.com One of the most perplexing …
Read More »Into the fray. The Israel-UAE pact: Sacrificing substance for ceremony?
Despite all the potential payoffs Israel &-UAE normalization may entail, the agreement is really a prop in the choreography for a much bigger drama. The major issue is not [attaining] an agreement, but ensuring the actual implementation of the agreement in practice. The number of agreements which the Arabs have …
Read More »Into the fray: Commanders against Israel’s sovereignty: Look us in the eye…
Even a cursory analysis of the “Commanders for Israel’s Security” plan, perversely titleda “Security First” will reveal that it is not a security plan composed by military experts, but a political manifesto drafted by amateur politicians It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while …
Read More »Into the fray: Israel and the perverse paradox of Jewish “liberals”
Israel should be a source of pride for all Jews—but particularly for Jews who espouse liberal values of tolerance and pluralism, of individual liberty and of human advancement. The notion that the state created by the sacrifice, blood, guts and brains of millions of courageous Israelis should be trashed because …
Read More »Into the fray: De-Americanizing America.
Inconceivably, ever greater circles of Americans seem swept up in a movement bent on jettisoning a paradigm that brought resounding success, while enthusiastically embracing one that wrought failure and deprivation wherever implemented Africa has the fastest-growing number of immigrants in the United States, according to …US Census Bureau data…The number …
Read More »Into the fray: Judicial overreach & the sovereignty imperative.
Excessive judicial intervention into what is seen as the purview of the legislature is likely to have some unintended consequences: Energizing the drive to extend Israeli sovereignty over Judaea-Samaria—and sparking far-reaching judicial reform. The Supreme Court has lost it. It declares itself the legislature, executive, and judiciary all at the …
Read More »Into the fray: The Iranian presence in Syria and the George Floyd factor.
Will a tragic incident on a Minneapolis curbside determine the fate of the political order in Tehran—and its military deployment across the ravaged realms of Syria? Recent media reports of a series of air attacks on Iranian-related targets in Syria—widely attributed to Israel—have once again raised the question of whether …
Read More »Into the Fray: Duma-Guilt by conjecture?
Perhaps the most disturbing issue, raised by the cloud of doubt, enveloping the Duma-related legal proceedings, is the tangible possibility that the real perpetrators of the gruesome murders may still be roaming around free—secure in the knowledge that someone else will pay for the atrocity they committed Terror is terror. …
Read More »Into the fray: A Choreographed Coup—with the Law as a Prop.
It is imperative to restore the judiciary to its duly assigned place in a properly functioning democracy – to that of adjudicating, not legislating. A recent Wall Street Journal opinion piece by Kimberley-Strassel was depressingly reminiscent of events currently taking place in Israel – at least in principle if not …
Read More »Into the Fray: A Choreographed Coup – with the Law as a Prop
It is imperative to restore the judiciary to its duly assigned place in a properly functioning democracy—to that of adjudicating, not legislating A recent Wall Street Journal opinion piece by Kimberley-Strassel was depressingly reminiscent of events currently taking place in Israel—at least in principle if not in detail. The overall …
Read More »Into the Fray: (a) The imperative to annex; (b) The irrelevance of innocence.
Preamble: The somewhat misleading headline This week (May 17-23) provided a particularly rich array of fresh newsworthy topics on which to focus: The opening of PM Netanyahu’s unashamedly choreographed trial, the disruptive cyber-attack on the southern Iranian port, Shahid Rajaee, widely attributed to Israel; the formation of the outsized and …
Read More »Into the fray: Pipes vs. Pipes in the New York Times.
In the past, Daniel Pipes has been scrupulously strict in being “policy agnostic”, avoiding any action-oriented prescriptions to achieve his prescribed “Israeli Victory”; yet in his NYT piece, he robustly negates specific measures—such as annexation—to achieve precisely that goal. ———- A week ago, as per the Cabinet’s proposal, the Knesset …
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