“Fight for freedom, stand with Hong Kong,” Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey tweeted back in October about the pro-democracy demonstrations in Hong Kong. Although many people involved with the NBA, from players and coaches to team owners, league executives, and sportswriters, have used their public platforms to decry the U.S. as a “racist society,” one marked by an “epidemic” of police violence against blacks, for LeBron James, James Harden, and other NBA bigwigs, it was wrong of Morey to express opposition to China’s brutal treatment of its own citizens—because it ...
President Donald Trump, who canceled a missile strike on Iran, after the shoot-down of a U.S. Predator drone, to avoid killing Iranians, may not want a U.S. war with Iran. But the same cannot be said ...
Ah, Israel, the ultimate wedge issue for people on the right. Nothing can queer an alliance between mainstream conservatives, paleoconservatives, and white nationalists quicker than Israel. There's ...
With Tuesday's election, Israel is back in the news. I"m writing this Monday night, so I don"t know who has won. And you may not know either because Israeli politics are ...
What is Bibi Netanyahu up to? With all his warnings of Iran’s “nuclear capability,” of red lines being crossed, of “breakout,” of the international ...
The only good thing which could result from Bibi Netanyahu’s May 24 speech to a joint session of the US Congress is that it may open people’s eyes after a very long ...
Not since Nikita Khrushchev berated Dwight Eisenhower over Gary Powers’ U-2 spy flight over Russia only weeks earlier has an American president been subjected to a dressing ...
Israel " Palestine " President Obama finally articulated last night what we"ve been waiting for since his election in 2008: Israel has to retreat to its 1967 borders. ...
It takes courage to confront Israel on the battlefield. Egypt, Syria, and Jordan's puffed-up armies learned that lesson in June 1967, when six days of combat forced them to throw ...
In Israel these days, about half of the Jews"the ones who say Arabs are no big problem"are having big problems with the other half of the Jews who say the Arabs are a very ...
Israel is at it again, caught by its own free press with its hand in the till"not so much the till as the land that other people till. The Israeli press is not only free, it ...
Captain Black from Catch-22 is back, but this time he's Israel's Foreign Affairs Minister. Although Avigdor Lieberman only rose to the rank of corporal in the Israeli Defense ...
In Israel, a country stolen from the Palestinians, fanatics control the government. One of the fanatics is the prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu. Last week, Netanyahu called for ...
Former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton, who is wired into the cabinet of “Bibi” Netanyahu, warns that if Iran’s nuclear program is not aborted by December, Israel ...
“I have to admire the residents of Iroquois territory for assuming that they have a right to determine where Jews lives in Jerusalem.” Thus did Israeli government ...
If there are no peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians for an independent Palestinian state, war next year is inevitable. So King Abdullah II of Jordan has told the ...