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The Obama Administration Lied

Mike Lumish — Fri, 17 May 2013 17:15:40 +0000

The Obama administration failed to defend our diplomatic team in Libya and then lied to us about it. For purely partisan political reasons the Obama administration sought to pawn off responsibility for the attack on Benghazi not on the Islamists who committed the attack, but on some obscure internet video that practically no one had [...]

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Benghazi Ball

Mike Lumish — Thu, 16 May 2013 17:19:05 +0000

I suppose it is hardly surprising that the politicians are turning the Benghazi scandal and cover-up into a political football. The Obama administration screwed up and then lied about it to the American public. They even lied about the lying of it when White House spokesman, Jay Carney, told us that the administration only made [...]

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The Obama administration must be held accountable

Mike Lumish — Sun, 12 May 2013 16:32:40 +0000

Much to everyone’s amazement, the New York Times toxic opinionator, Maureen Dowd, may be the first outspoken “progressive” in the American press to actually understand that the Obama Administration failed the country when they refused to even try to rescue Ambassador Stevens and his staff in Benghazi. In a piece entitled, When Myths Collide in the [...]

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The Obama Administration and the Bengahzi Talking Points

Mike Lumish — Fri, 10 May 2013 17:54:26 +0000

Stephen F. Hayes, of the conservative Weekly Standard, just published a piece entitled The Benghazi Talking Points and how they were changed to obscure the truth. Hayes writes: Even as the White House strove last week to move beyond questions about the Benghazi attacks of Tuesday, September 11, 2012, fresh evidence emerged that senior Obama administration [...]

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Their Hatred is Not Your Fault

Mike Lumish — Mon, 06 May 2013 15:26:10 +0000

Every once in awhile I wonder why I bother maintaining this blog. I have no doubt that all blog owners, particularly political blog owners, come fact-to-face with this question all the time. I certainly have no doubt that Maryscott O’Connor, the proprietor of My Left Wing - a blog that I was associated with for years [...]

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Pamela Geller Under Attack

Mike Lumish — Fri, 03 May 2013 18:09:46 +0000

I was raised to root for the underdog. I suspect that very many Jewish people of my generation were and this is part of the reason that so many Jews succumb to what I have called the Palestinian Colonization of the Jewish Mind. Make no mistake, Geller, whose freedom of speech is constantly under assault, is the [...]

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Oh, I just couldn’t let this go by!

Mike Lumish — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 19:07:40 +0000

MEMRI gives us this: Iranian Official: The Jews Use Sorcery Against Iran An Iranian regime official and a website close to the regime have recently accused the Jews of engaging in sorcery and of employing it against Iran. Mehdi Taeb, who is close to Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and heads Khamenei’s Ammar Base [...]

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Rethinking the Conflict

Mike Lumish — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 15:42:43 +0000

One of the fundamental things that we are trying to do at Israel Thrives is simply rethink the conflict. Two things, to my mind, could absolutely not be more clear. The first is that the vast Arab majority in the Middle East, including those in Gaza, Judea, and Samaria, have no intention whatsoever of giving [...]

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Obama Administration demands release of terrorists

Mike Lumish — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 15:43:54 +0000

Yuval Bagno at the Jerusalem Post writes: After the Knesset discussed America’s demand that Israel release terrorists as a good will gesture to the Palestinian Authority on Wednesday, Deputy Minister Ofir Akunis promised that there is no government decision to release the terrorists and that the government is against any such release. He called [...]

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Brief Notes: Standing Up For Ourselves

Mike Lumish — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 19:58:26 +0000

All we are trying to do at Israel Thrives, or so it seems to me, is open ourselves to alternative viewpoints around the Arab-Israel conflict and to stand up for ourselves. I have no particular agenda beyond the fact that I want Israel to thrive. That’s it. That’s all. Given the history of the Jewish [...]

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Pamela Geller: The Bête Noire of Progressive-Left Jewry

Mike Lumish — Sat, 13 Apr 2013 17:59:14 +0000

Anyone who follows the American Jewish press knows that gadfly Pamela Geller was recently disinvited to give a talk on the subject of Sharia at Great Neck Synagogue on Long Island. The reason for this is because progressives constantly tell one another that Geller is a racist. And if the progressive-left despises Geller as a [...]

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The Fundamental Question

Mike Lumish — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 18:15:42 +0000

Do the Palestinians want a state? I would submit that the most fundamental question to ask concerning the Long Arab War Against the Jews of the Middle East is this: Do the Palestinian-Arabs want a state for themselves in peace next to the Jewish one or not? It is an obvious question, but the answer [...]

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We Need More Apologies!

Mike Lumish — Fri, 29 Mar 2013 15:51:12 +0000

Now that Israel has apologized to Turkey for Turkey’s attack upon her, she now must apologize to every other country in the region, first and foremost to Iran. Israel owes Iran a profound apology because although the ayatollahs have been screeching for Jewish blood for decades, if not centuries, Israel has claimed that it will [...]

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Is Israel a Sovereign State?

Mike Lumish — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 06:26:27 +0000

In a piece entitled, Sovereign State or Colony?, the well-respected American analyst and blogger, FresnoZionist, wonders about the meaning of Netanyahu’s recent apology to Turkey for the nine dead aboard the Mavi Marmara. Among the things that many of us also wonder about is the purpose of Obama’s recent trip to Israel and to the city of [...]

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Seeing Beyond the Oslo Delusion

Mike Lumish — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 15:58:57 +0000

The Oslo Delusion is the mistaken belief that if only Israel would jump through certain hoops then there would be peace between Arabs and Jews in the Middle East. At the center of the Oslo Delusion is the notion that the Jews of the Middle East have oppressed the Arabs in their tiny part of [...]

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