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Lev Tsitrin
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December 21, 2021
Is the New York Times moderating its stance on Israel?I was pleasantly surprised by the tone of a New York Times' recent report from Gaza.
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December 7, 2021
Teen Vogue advises its readers: To stay in the right, don't readWhat do you do with a book your loving grandparents gave you while on a visit to your college campus? If it defends Israel, get rid of it ASAP.
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September 23, 2021
Voting for Democrats takes a deadly turnFor Israel, anyway. It's amazing American Jews still vote for these people.
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September 20, 2021
Why the New York Times can't get its Israel story rightWhat is on Palestinians' minds is still the destruction of Israel.
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August 27, 2021
Whom is Israel to trust?There are practical reasons why Israelis would be cautious when sharing with Americans.
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July 29, 2021
Ben & Jerry: Malicious, maybe; clueless, definitelyHow much do Ben & Jerry know about the "occupation" of "Palestine"?
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July 22, 2021
Anti-settler settlersBasic decency suggests that one should follow what one preaches.
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July 12, 2021
On Palestinians, Biden is still cluelessHalf a century of being involved in Middle East politics apparently has not made President Biden one bit wiser.
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June 29, 2021
The NYT fails to follow its own adviceIs it too hard for Nicholas Kristof to follow his own advice and listen to the voice of reason?
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June 22, 2021
John Bolton should not play Obama/Biden game on the Iran 'deal'It would never have occurred to me to call John Bolton "naïve" on anything, but a recent interview left me puzzled.
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June 17, 2021
NY university faculty union exercises weapons-grade sophistry in anti-Israel 'resolution'This morphing of present-day academia into a tool of public sophistry makes it worth asking if they deserve public funding.
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June 12, 2021
Selling the 'reasonableness' of the Iran dealHow can so many Americans believe this song and dance?
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June 8, 2021
Is Blinken blinking on Iran?The secretary of state's pessimistic report on re-joining Obama's Iran nuclear deal does not sound good — for two reasons.
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June 7, 2021
Who -- or What -- Occupies Gaza?We keep hearing from them that Gaza is occupied, that Gaza is an open-air prison, that Gaza is a "penal colony." Gazans are oppressed, the theory goes, and Israel is the oppressor.
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May 25, 2021
What is more sad than the occupation? The need for it.The Palestinians' history reveals the central error in their current claims to the land but that doesn't stop them.
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May 21, 2021
Bernie Sanders's bloody follySanders is killing the Palestinians he's claiming to help.
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May 20, 2021
BLM and settler colonialismIt's surprising that American blacks would be outraged by "settler colonialism."
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May 1, 2021
Now hiring college grads is racist, tooShould we all be uneducated to prove our anti-racist bona fides? NPR explores the question in typical leftist fashion.
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April 29, 2021
Human Rights Watch's double-speak, and its discontentsHuman Rights Watch besmears itself while attacking Israel.
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April 27, 2021
The New York Times knows more than one way to lieWe often see the Times lie by omission -- but there's more than one way to skin a cat.
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April 25, 2021
New York Times gets 'more honest' about Iran dealWhat does "being more honest" really mean?
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April 12, 2021
The New York Times and Natanz: A study in contrastsWhatever actually happened at Natanz, the power outage is a reminder that Obama-style appeasement of the ayatollahs is not the only way of dealing with Iran.
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April 9, 2021
Meet the new Iran deal, worse than the old dealNow we'll have a nuclear-armed Iran by 2030. What a triumph of Biden diplomacy.
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March 29, 2021
NYT: the Iranian bomb leads to women's rightsTo gain freedom, Iranian ladies should free themselves from the regime, not try to pacify it by acting as useful idiots.
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March 17, 2021
Why should we stop with gender fluidity?Wouldn't it be more convenient just to grow wings and fly?
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March 14, 2021
New York Times' sob story on underfunded Palestinian school misses the big problemThe Palestinians still need to start loving their children more than they love destroying Israelis.
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March 10, 2021
Why the NY Times ignored the attack on Ras TanuraThe New York Times is a place of incredible oversensitivity, of thin skins and easily bruised egos.
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March 7, 2021
Palestinians trash a PA-sanctioned concert. Guess who's at fault!Can it be any other way if New York Times reports the story?
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February 28, 2021
American journalists and editors were duped in the Jamal Khashoggi caseJoe Biden resurrects a gruesome episode from recent history and reminds us of an embarrassing chapter for the news media.
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February 25, 2021
To the New York Times, prioritizing friends over enemies is amoralWhy Israel should be responsible for inoculating Palestinians is not at all clear.
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February 17, 2021
Biden's secretary of state omits one crucial detail in selling disastrous Iran dealTruth in advertising is not a priority for the Biden administration.
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January 26, 2021
A modest proposal: Cancel all lawsIn the face of the New York Times' concern about the disparate impact of facially neutral laws, there are a couple of alternatives — but the leftists may not like them.
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January 24, 2021
Stop credulously calling China a 'people's republic'The way we use words has a huge impact on how we think. It can also hand ammunition to our enemies.
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January 20, 2021
The magical mutating Iran coverage at the New York Times.When it comes to supporting Mike Pompeo’s narrative or Iran’s, you can see the New York Times massaging facts in real-time.
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January 15, 2021
The author of Dare to Speak wants Trump impeached for daring to speakHypocrisy should be called out for what it is — "hypocrisy."
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January 13, 2021
New York Times blames January 6 on lies. But whose lies are at fault?The press, after all, is legally allowed to lie. And judges gave them that power.
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January 6, 2021
Can Trump's presidency shake Americans' undue respect for the judicial process?Trump's unsuccessful attempt to have the courts look into the election irregularities had a welcome effect of making us look into how judging gets done.
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August 16, 2020
Iran and Hezb’allahs theodicy problem in BeirutWhen I heard that Beirut's blast was a result of negligence, the first thought that crossed my mind was, "How will Iran and Hezb’allah account for Allah allowing such a disaster to happen to devotees of jihad?"
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December 13, 2019
Is the personal 'I' a royal 'we'?The entire legal ground for the Trump impeachment seems to be based on grammar.
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November 21, 2019
Who would benefit from a Biden investigation?Indeed, there are many who would benefit from the Biden investigation by Ukrainians.
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September 26, 2019
A simple solution for the logjam in IsraelSomething's got to give in the chaotic Knesset.
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August 22, 2019
NY Times' take on Trump's Jewish 'disloyalty' remark is disingenuousEminently dishonest.
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June 24, 2019
Palestinians defy TrumpOne could be excused for thinking Trump was planning to take from the Palestinians $50 billion over the next decade rather than give it to them.
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May 5, 2019
The way 'land for peace' could work in the Middle East'Give land to achieve peace' ended in colossal, bloody failure. But there's another take on the old phrase.
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September 24, 2018
Russian animation of IL-20 incident fails to enlightenThe standard Russian non-explanation.
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December 7, 2017
Trump to Abbas: NegotiateFinally, we have a president taking a different tack on the Palestinian issue from that of his failed predecessors.
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July 27, 2017
The Palestinian application of chutzpah on the Temple MountThese guys sure have got some nerve.
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May 7, 2017
The Palestinians could use some Trump pressureTime to send the Palestinians a clear signal that their stalling tactic that holds regional peace and progress hostage will no longer be tolerated.
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September 9, 2016
Hillary and Trump on nuclear deterrence: Not so different?An audience member's question throws off an eminent pundit.
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August 8, 2016
Obama chooses containmentObama's dream of preventing the bombing of Iran's nuclear facilities triumphs in the end.
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June 17, 2016
Desperate to cover up Iran lie, Kerry shills for business with the mullahsWhat happened to all the dire warnings of U.S.-only sanctions and the collapse of the U.S. dollar?
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December 4, 2015
On Israel, no daylight between Trump and ObamaOne president who combines a messianic complex with total ignorance of the Middle East realities is more than enough.
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August 13, 2015
Vote for nuclear Iran, then march in Israel Day parade?Maybe the parade organizers should do something about false friends marching.
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August 10, 2015
The Obama Doctrine: "Danger? Paper it over!"We have a president who is so obviously consumed by fear.
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August 9, 2015
Bizarre: Obama looks into mirror, does not see ChamberlainThe president is getting huffy over AIPAC's portrayal of him.
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August 8, 2015
Senator Gillibrand's approval of Iran deal is based on ignorance, and must be reversedNew York’s Senate delegation is split on the Iran deal. Here's what the junior senator is misssing.
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August 5, 2015
Supporters of the Iran deal speak out (on NPR)If these are the best arguments they could find...