Author: nick

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is facing perhaps the most precarious moment of his political career. He knows it. His allies know it. And his rivals – both within his coalition and across Israel’s political spectrum – are preparing to capitalize on his growing weakness. Former Israeli Justice Minister Haim Ramon, who also served as deputy prime minister between 2007 and 2009, is among the latest Israeli political figures to join a growing chorus of criticism directed at Netanyahu. “In the final result,” Ramon said in an interview with Radio Galey, cited by the Israeli outlet Srugim, “we did not…

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Americans, like Indians, have largely been immune to the charms of soccer, or what we in Europe call football, and so am I, though in my case it was not always so. Whether the current World Cup changes that remains to be seen. When I was a boy, I thought soccer was important, though never quite as important as Bill Shankly, the manager of Liverpool Football Club, thought it. He said that football was not a matter of life and death—it was much more serious than that. The sport has changed out of all recognition since I first attended a…

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The next mayor of DC is set to be a far-left police abolitionist backed by the Democratic Socialists of America. Janeese Lewis George won the Democratic primary this week. Barring a miracle, she will be the next mayor of the city where Republicans don’t exist.  Lewis George made her name in DC politics as a Black Lives Matter activist campaigning to defund the police. She still wants to abolish ICE. She wants to implement numerous left-wing policies, such as expanded rent control, more subsidized housing, and greater business regulations. No one would accuse her of being a pro-business moderate.  She’s…

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke to the JNS International Policy Summit in Jerusalem, giving what sounds like a victory speech, saying the U.S. and Israel succeeded at “shattering Iran’s terror axis” and “created the conditions for the future fall” of the Islamic Republic”We prevented Iran from carrying out a plan to annihilate us,” he said. “Had we not acted… Iran would have had atomic bombs. And let me tell you something — they would have used them. That’s what we prevented.”BENJAMIN NETANYAHU: Today I want to begin with a simple question: What have we achieved?Because these same people and…

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