Category Archives: US-Israel Relations

How not to stabilize the Middle East

Posted on October 31, 2016 by Victor Rosenthal

My very first blog post almost exactly 10 years ago was about the just-released Iraq Study Group Report, co-authored by Lee Hamilton and James Baker. What struck me about it was how it asserted that the way to solve the … Continue reading →

Posted in Middle East politics, US-Israel Relations, War | 2 Comments

Goodbye, Barack

Posted on October 10, 2016 by Victor Rosenthal

At last, after eight long years during which Barack Obama a) applied almost unrelenting pressure on Israel, much more obsessively than anything else he did, and b) taught us the painful truth about American liberal Jews – that for them, … Continue reading →

Posted in American politics, US-Israel Relations | 2 Comments

The White House crosses out Israel

Posted on October 1, 2016 by Victor Rosenthal

This is at the same time laughable and insulting. The White House issued a press release about Barack Obama’s speech at the funeral of Shimon Peres. The funeral was held at the cemetery on Mt. Herzl in western Jerusalem, and … Continue reading →

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American military aid: bad for America, worse for Israel

Posted on September 19, 2016 by Victor Rosenthal

See, you trust in the staff of this broken reed, on Egypt; where on if a man lean, it will go into his hand, and pierce it: so is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all that trust in him. – … Continue reading →

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Seven things Israel doesn’t need

Posted on August 18, 2016 by Victor Rosenthal

A popular idea in the West is that you solve conflicts by satisfying people’s needs. Just figure out how to meet everyone’s needs, and the result will be peace and harmony. The American administration and the Europeans want to help … Continue reading →

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How to recover Israel’s national honor and save the US taxpayer billions

Posted on August 12, 2016 by Victor Rosenthal

Israel’s sometimes impulsive Defense Minister, Avigdor Liberman, was forced to apologize for a statement issued with his approval that compared the Obama Iran deal with the 1938 Munich agreement, which as we know fed Czechoslovakia into the maw of Nazi … Continue reading →

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Ending our unhealthy dependence

Posted on August 7, 2016 by Victor Rosenthal

In a press conference at the Pentagon last Thursday, US President Obama said, [The] Israeli military and security community … acknowledges [the Iranian nuclear deal] has been a game changer. The country that was most opposed to the deal. Sorry, … Continue reading →

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The case for paranoia

Posted on June 3, 2016 by Victor Rosenthal

I am sitting at my desk on a quiet day. There are no screaming sirens. Hezbollah isn’t bombarding us with its tens of thousands of missiles, and Hamas tunnels aren’t disgorging terrorists near kibbutz dining halls. Nobody has been stabbed … Continue reading →

Posted in Europe and Israel, Information war, Jew Hatred, US-Israel Relations | 3 Comments