Personnel is Policy: Kamala Harris’s Campaign Appointments Should Alarm Israel-Supporters

In any normal year, people with such radical records wouldn’t be allowed near a presidential campaign, let alone given senior appointments; but radical anti-Zionism is now unremarkable in today’s Democratic Party.

This column originally published in the Jerusalem Post

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A “(Pr)eulogy”: President Carter and the Antisemitic Corruption of U.S. Policy

Carter may not have been the first president hostile toward Jews or Israel; but his was the first administration to allow that hostility to seriously skew policy to the self-inflicted detriment of America and its allies.

This column originally appeared in the Daily Caller (under a different title).

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Israel’s Air Force, and the new strategic value of air Power

By MAJ. GEN (RET.) AMIKAM NORKIN, ABE KATSMAN

Air power is considered a powerful instrument, but a blunt one. It can be too destructive and too indiscriminate. It is certainly not subtle. Western militaries concerned with military morality and preservation of civilian lives should, therefore, take notice of Israel’s latest advances in precision targeting, transforming air power from an essentially tactical capability to one with a vastly increased strategic impact. 

This column was originally published in the Jerusalem Post

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Hate Trump? Understood. Now, Vote for him Anyway.

We vote not just for a President, but for a presidency.  Particularly for voters concerned about Mideast policy, it’s hard to argue with the accomplishments—too many of which we already take for granted. You might (grudgingly) concede that this presidency has been, by-and-large, a success.

Originally published in the Jerusalem Post

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Is the Trump Administration Really All That Different? (Book Review: Fight House, by Tevi Troy)

A worthwhile, entertaining, and original take on White House dynamics.  Troy demonstrates that Trump administration internal battles are not out of the ordinary.  That is true; but what is unprecedented is the the undermining not of fellow aides, but of the president himself. Continue reading

Confronting J Street’s Candidates: In What Way are You ‘Pro-Israel’?

If an organization slaps a “kosher” label on pork, that label hardly makes the pork kosher as commonly understood. Currently, more than half of congressional Democrats carry J Street’s “pro-Israel” kosher certification.

This column originally published in the Jerusalem Post
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Please, pro-Israel Democrats: Rescue your party

What shall it profit a party if it shall gain the whole world, and lose its own soul?  Is winning worth the price of electing radical, Israel-hostile candidates who automatically become Democratic leaders and rising stars?

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Should America Underwrite Palestinian Terror?

It’s bad enough that the blood of American and Israeli victims of Palestinian terror is cheap; it is outrageous that it is subsidized.  Including by the U.S. government.  Isn’t it time to put a stop to this most obscene use of American tax dollars?

This column was originally published in American Thinker

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U.S. Elections: The Peculiar Search for Antisemitism

Yes, there have been noxious anti-Semitc comments by one of the candidates: not Trump, but Hillary Clinton. Journalists scouring only the Trump record for anti-Semitism–but not both sides equally–betray their own insincerity, and dishonorably misuse this serious issue for partisan purposes. 

This column was originally published in the Jerusalem Post 
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Post-Debate: Trump Right to Raise Fraud, Still Better for Israel

Media hysteria aside, election fraud is real and has consequences.  So does the failure to stand up to it.  Furthermore, those WikiLeaks emails shed further light on what a Hillary Clinton administration would mean for Israel. And it is ominous.

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