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Why Kerry Was Wrong to Rebuke Israel With ‘Apartheid’ Comment
AFP PHOTO/JACQUELYN MARTIN/Newscom Secretary of State John Kerry undiplomatically declared that Israel risks becoming “an apartheid state” if it fails to negotiate a peace agreement with the...
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John Kerry Recants Israel ‘Apartheid State’ Comments
Photo: Win McNamee/Getty Images Secretary of State John Kerry has recanted his statements about the possibility of Israel becoming “an apartheid state,” asserting that he does not believe “ Israel is...
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'In Our Interest': On Overseas Trip, Cruz Lends Support to Israel, Ukraine
Cruz: ‘Concern in Israel’ (Photo: Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call) He walked Independence Square in Kiev, the site of months of turmoil, and spoke with leaders of the protest movement, many of them...
View ArticleA Bad Nuclear Deal with Iran Could Lead to War
The deal that the Obama Administration struck at the Geneva talks yesterday amounts to a flawed agreement that risks reducing sanctions pressure on Iran over next six months in return for easily...
View ArticleSuspend U.S. Aid to the Hamas-backed Palestinian Unity Government
President Obama’s Middle East policy continues to unravel with dangerous consequences for American national interests and those of its allies. On Monday, the Palestinian Islamist extremist movement...
View ArticleWATCH: Heritage President Jim DeMint at Today’s Bloggers Briefing
We are excited to announce that Heritage’s new president, Jim DeMint, will join us at today’s Bloggers Briefing. Even though he’s been with us since January, last Thursday was DeMint’s first day...
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Iron Dome: A Defense Bargain
Newscom The Pentagon has recently requested more than $220 million in fiscal year (FY) 2014 to support Israel’s air defense system, known as “Iron Dome.” The Missile Defense Agency likewise requested...
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Iran-Made Drone Shot Down over Israel
Israel announced on Thursday that it had shot down a drone approaching its coast about five miles west of the northern city of Haifa. Israeli officials said that the drone came from Lebanon and was...
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Congress Takes On U.N.’s Richard Falk over Boston Comments
Keiko Hiromi/Polaris/Newscom Outraged Members of Congress are circulating a letter demanding that the Obama Administration take action against U.N. Special Ambassador Richard Falk, the man who had the...
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Protect America Month 2013
Even as the U.S. withdraws from Iraq and Afghanistan, the world has certainly not become a safer place. North Korea continues to advance its ballistic missile capabilities, the conflict in Syria has...
View ArticleIRS-Gate
Over the weekend, the IRS scandal got even more bizarre. Various news organizations got a look at a still-unreleased report by the inspector general (IG) for tax administration at the Treasury...
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Hezbollah Escalates Fighting in Syria as Sectarian Tensions Grow in Lebanon
Newscom The Lebanese Shia Islamist militant group Hezbollah is becoming more aggressively involved in Syria’s civil war, which threatens to reopen the old wounds of Lebanon’s 1975–1990 civil war....
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Iran Steps Up Its Global Terrorism Campaign
AY-COLLECTION/SIPA/Newscom Senior Obama Administration officials held a background briefing on Friday in which they discussed the “alarming trend” of escalating Iranian support for terrorism. Two...
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Obama Reinforces Failure with Susan Rice Nomination
President Obama gets high marks for loyalty to his closest political friends and allies, but his nomination of Susan Rice as National Security Adviser shows that his concern for the realistic security...
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Egypt: Morsi Regime Shaken by Massive Protests and Army Ultimatum
Li Muzi/Xinhua/Photoshot/Newscom Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi, whose authoritarian misrule has provoked massive protests, is desperately clinging to power. Egypt has been roiled by nationwide...
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Q&A: U.S. Foreign Aid to Egypt
Raphael Fournier/Sipa USA/Newscom James Phillips, Heritage’s senior research fellow for Middle Eastern affairs, answers key questions about U.S. foreign aid to Egypt. What is U.S. foreign aid to Egypt?...
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Iran’s Covert Cyber War
Newscom Over the weekend, Hassan Rowhani, a former top nuclear negotiator, was officially sworn in as Iran’s new president. Unfortunately, there are no indications that he will curtail Iran’s nuclear...
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Israel and Palestine Talks: Kerry Should Learn from the Past
MICHAEL REYNOLDS/EPA/Newscom A recent poll shows that most Israelis are pessimistic that the new round of talks with Palestine will succeed. A majority of Israelis also oppose withdrawing to pre-1967...
View ArticleIran Warns of Retaliation over Syrian Crisis
If the Obama Administration follows through with its planned “shot across the bow” of Bashar al-Assad’s Syrian regime, it should be prepared to deal with the unintended consequences of such action....
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Assad Has Friends Closer Than You Think
EFE/David Fernandez/Newscom Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has anti-American friends in the Western Hemisphere. In a move to exert his somewhat newly minted leadership status, Nicolas Maduro, the...
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