Inner Circle

One would think progressives, supposed champions of social justice, would be more eager than anyone to defend a historically oppressed group currently under attack. But apparently not when the victims are Jews.

Woke leftists simply oppose the military action of some states but uniquely hate Israel with a visceral passion. Indeed, a clear and ugly implication underlies all the far-left criticism of Israel’s conduct: that Israelis should just let themselves be killed by Hamas’s rockets rather than fight back.

If Kerry, now President Biden’s special envoy for climate, really did reveal information about Israeli covert operations to Zarif, that’s outrageous. It would mean he betrayed our Israeli friends to benefit an Iranian regime that chants “death to America” and “death to Israel.” 

This is why the left hailed Chauvin’s conviction as a victory in the fight for racial justice: Convicting him meant convicting America of systemic racism.

Some analysts say not to worry about this rapid modernization because China has far fewer nuclear weapons than the US. They are sorely mistaken.

“I’m a nice guy and not Donald Trump,” was Biden’s case for the presidency. “I’ll end the chaos and return us to normalcy.” This was his electoral mandate: to govern as a boring, comfortable moderate. To be an old and tired president with low energy who was simply not his predecessor, nothing more.

The Obama administration’s toxic campaign to defend a severely flawed deal fostered visceral partisanship at home. The result has been devastating: A country so divided on Iran cannot create effective, enduring policies to combat Iran’s nuclear and imperial ambitions.

When we look at illegal immigration as a matter of national security, terrorism isn’t the only threat. Of perhaps greater concern is espionage — the prospect of adversarial countries such as Iran sending agents to spy rather than attack.