Category: Foreign Policy

Your state and culture as the world’s patron

Ted Cruz’s imperialist fantasy: Why his latest anti-Obama epithet is so dangerous By Colin P. Elliott, Saturday, Feb 15, 2014 08:30 AM CST   In the wake of President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address, Sen. Ted Cruz now insists that Americans are living under an “imperial presidency” because of the way that the …

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The premise that the Jews deserve more

Say a big ‘thank you’ to Martin Schulz By Avraham Burg, Feb. 14, 2014 7:25 PM   A bit of disclosure: First, to me, Economy Minister Naftali Bennett (Habayit Hayehudi) is one of the shallowest people I’ve ever encountered here in recent years. Give me Moshe Feiglin, give me Uri Elitzur, give me Shlomo Ben-Zvi, …

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Verisimilitudinous

The Old Testament’s made-up camels are a problem for Zionism By Andrew Brown, Thursday 13 February 2014 08.59 EST   There are 21 references to camels in the first books of the Bible, and now we know they are all made up. Some of them are quite startlingly verisimilitudinous, such as the story of Abraham’s …

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Their need for protection is all the greater

The number of women sentenced to death across the Middle East has very little to do with justice By Robert Fisk, Sunday 9 February 2014   The execution of women holds a special revulsion for Westerners, especially – let us be honest about this – when the women are decapitated, hanged or shot in the …

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Shut up

Rep. Paul Ryan is a very stupid man By Hunter, Mon Feb 03, 2014 at 12:27 PM PST   I lived through the Iran Contra incident, and I have lived through a president declaring a new executive privilege to torture. I was alive when Oliver North put on a nice clean suit and testified in …

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The genitals

Read Genesis carefully   Dear editor: Re. Everette West, Daron McClain and whoever else believes in an eternal hell, there is no such place. The scriptures teach that hell was created for the devil and his angels and anything that was created has an end. And there is life after we leave here. And all …

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And yet here we are

The Selective Secrecy Of Bill De Blasio By Andrew Sullivan, Jan 24 2014 @ 7:56pm   If you were to describe the Israel lobby as a secretive group that enforces the policies of the Israeli government on American politicians in private gatherings, you would be called an anti-Semite. The idea that the Israel lobby is …

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