She is a historic choice for reasons other than just her sex and race: even in the party of Bill and Hillary Clinton, Kamala Harris is arguably the least-principled candidate in recent memory.
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In Democrats we Trust: Danger for Israel/Allies
Those whose hatred of political opponents exceeds their hatred for the country’s enemies should be kept far from the Presidency. A party which treats foreign policy only as a means to claw back power at any cost cannot be trusted with America’s own national security interests; how reliable can it be when it comes to Israel’s?
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Republicans Hold Congress! (Tomorrow’s Analysis–Why Wait?)
I’m pre-writing my post-election analysis—the same points you’ll be reading from those omniscient pundits who wait until after the election to share their wisdom and analysis.
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?
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?
The League of Defamation
As Steve Bannon oversaw the publication of thousands of articles during his tenure at “unabashedly racist,” “white supremacist,” “anti-Semitic” Breitbart.com, surely there are hundreds of illustrative examples of those “anti-Semitic tropes” the ADL, Forward, Ha’aretz and Conservative and Reform movements could point to. Well, certainly dozens. OK, ten? One, even? Nope. Where does Bannon go to get his reputation back?
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FATCA: The Sleeper Election Issue for 9 Million Americans
Democrats own FATCA, which is wreaking havoc with even basic financial services available to Americans abroad. Those nine million Americans are feeling its effects, and they are not happy. Expect them to vote accordingly.
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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