Aaron Kliegman
Anyone who really wants Arab-Israeli peace should be applauding the agreement to normalize relations between Israel and the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
The deal is historic: While Egypt and Jordan have had peace treaties with Israel for decades, the UAE is the first Arab country to go a step further and become friends with the Jewish state. Indeed, Abu Dhabi and Jerusalem are preparing to cooperate on scientific and economic projects, and the Israeli and Emirati peoples are preparing to develop intimate ties through trade and tourism.
By Aaron Kliegman When at first a hoax doesn’t succeed, try another one. That seems to be the chief lesson that Democrats and the media learned from President Trump’s first term. For three-plus years, the political left, with the help of Never Trump Republicans, pushed the false claim that the president’s campaign colluded with Russia to win … Read more
On the surface, the longstanding alliance between leftists and Islamists is puzzling. While the former seeks a secular utopia based on radical equality, the latter pushes for a destructive theocracy based on Muslim primacy. If anything, both sides should be enemies.
Dig a little deeper, however, and the alliance makes complete sense. In many ways, it’s a perfect match.
Let’s stop with the nonsense: Hezbollah is responsible for the massive explosion that devastated Beirut, the capital of Lebanon, last week. Most people have been reluctant to blame the Islamist terrorist group, which effectively rules Lebanon, outright, instead condemning general negligence, incompetence, and mismanagement across Lebanese institutions.
Today, we need to reckon with totalitarian forces among us that, if given their way, would dispense with the American project and create a new system to ensure social justice and equality — as they define it and for our own good. But eventually, two plus two may very well equal five. And in the meantime, the memory of America would steadily fade from existence, becoming nothing more than a rumor.
On Friday, a federal appeals court overturned Tsarnaev’s death sentence, ordering a new trial to determine whether the convicted murderer and terrorist should be executed. In a ruling that enraged some victims, the US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit ruled that the judge in the 2015 trial “did not meet the standard” of fairness while presiding over the process to select a jury.
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Jew-haters received some great news this week: They’re free to use Twitter to call for Israel’s destruction and to deny the Holocaust.
No, that’s not an exaggeration.
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No one will be watching the results of the 2020 presidential race on Nov. 3 more intently than Iran’s leaders. Indeed, the Islamist thugs who rule Iran want Joe Biden to defeat President Donald Trump more than anyone — even more than the most ardent progressives and Never Trumpers.
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Amid the racial unrest currently plaguing America, the idea of paying reparations to black Americans to atone for slavery is, once again, gaining popularity.
The Trump administration is considering withdrawing American soldiers from South Korea. This is a dangerous idea. Even a partial withdrawal — let alone the removal of all 28,500 troops stationed there — would be a grave mistake.
