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January 25, 2018

American Policy Would Benefit from Keeping in Mind Who in the Middle East Blesses the U.S., and Who Curses It

A tale of two speeches.

On Monday, Vice-President Mike Pence addressed the Knesset, where he spoke enthusiastically about the U.S.-Israel relationship and the two countries’ shared biblical heritage. Yoram Hazony contrasts the mutual expressions of friendship between the American vice-president and Israeli politicians with the bitter recent speech by Mahmoud Abbas to the assembled leaders of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO), where the PA president expounded various anti-Semitic and anti-Western conspiracy theories and cursed the American president:

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January 25, 2018

  1. American Policy Would Benefit from Keeping in Mind Who in the Middle East Blesses the U.S., and Who Curses It

    A tale of two speeches.

  2. Britain, and the EU, Must End the Appeasement of Hizballah

    The false distinction between “military” and “political” wings.

  3. Can Islam Solve Its Jewish Problem?

    Ignoring anti-Jewish texts isn’t the answer.

  4. Don’t Treat the Torah as a Collection of Left-Wing Policy Prescriptions

    Judaism beyond slogans.

  5. How “The Hobbit” was Brought to Israeli Readers

    Translated by Israeli POWS.