The Palestinian Refusal to Attend the Bahrain Conference Demonstrates a Lack of Interest in Statehood
Seeing past the excuses for the latest rejection.
June 25, 2019
Don’t ignore the fringe, and don’t appease it.
After carefully summarizing how the British Labor party fell into hands of the anti-Semitic, anti-Israel, anti-American, and pro-terrorist Jeremy Corbyn and his followers, Robert Philpot considers the danger that America’s Democrats could be headed toward a similar devolution. For Labor, Philpot shows, the turning point came under the prior leadership of the comparatively more moderate (and Jewish) Edward Miliband, who “abandoned the pro-Israel line that had characterized the premierships of [his predecessors] Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, and . . . shifted wholesale into the anti-Israel camp.”
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Login or SubscribeSeeing past the excuses for the latest rejection.
Don’t ignore the fringe, and don’t appease it.
It always takes the opposite side at the UN.
“King David might have walked on these very cobblestones.”
Eagle feathers, government regulators, and the fate of religious minorities.