The Issue Is Never the Issue: The Subversive Protest Movements in the U.S. and Israel

Mob disruption is a uniquely reliable component of leftist protest.  It should not be mistaken for mere over-exuberance; it is the very point of the protest.  Aiming to divide and dismantle existing power structures and focusing on supposed “systemic” issues of broad injustice and power imbalances which no mere policy tweak can solve, the left-wing impulse is inherently revolutionary; its intent is to strategically destabilize.

Originally published in American Thinker

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High Noon: Israel Stands Alone, Abandoned by Fair-Weather Friends

Israel, like Gary Cooper in High Noon, stands alone and abandoned by cowardly Western “allies” to face down mortal adversaries knowing that survival depends only on its own actions. Israel, alone, has achieved (and risked, and sacrificed) a great deal.  Its fair-weather allies will reap benefits of Israel’s achievements against their common enemies; but they don’t deserve to. Israel, at least, becomes a lot less alone starting at “high noon,” January 20.

This column originally published by American Thinker

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Not this Year; Not these Democrats: Lawlessness Leads to Looming Election Losses

Note that the Biden-Harris administration coinciding with lawlessness has also coincided, ironically with a surge in registrations.  Of guns.  And Republican voters.

This column originally published by The Times of Israel

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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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