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President Trump is on vacation but that won't stop the Twitter storms

August 8, 2017  •  Fox News

Donald Trump is now officially on a working vacation, and not a minute too soon. Above all, he should give his Twitter thumbs a rest.

Although his administration had a significant foreign policy accomplishment this weekend – the United Nations' Security Council's unanimous approval of the toughest-ever economic sanctions against North Korea to punish Pyongyang for its ongoing nuclear weapons program - President Trump distracted press attention from that achievement with a Twitter storm on Monday morning of no less than seven early bird attacks on the press.

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A Killing in Amman Portends More Animosity Between Israel and Jordan

August 3, 2017  •  Tablet

Details of what happened at the Israeli embassy in Amman, Jordan last month remain in dispute. While Israeli and Jordanian media have been filled with competing accounts of why an Israeli embassy security guard shot and killed two Jordanians — one of them a Christian relative of an influential Jordanian parliamentarian — they agree on this: the attack, interwoven with tensions over Israeli security measures in the wake of an earlier terrorist attack on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, have triggered a crisis in relations between Israel and one of its closest Arab allies.

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How Jerusalem's Top Cop Keeps the Peace

July 21, 2017  •  The Wall Street Journal

Jerusalem — Three Arab Israelis opened fire last Friday on Jerusalem's Temple Mount, a holy site for Jews, Muslims and Christians alike. Two Israeli policemen were killed, as were the attackers. For the first time in decades, Israel closed the compound on a Friday, Islam's holy day. By Sunday it had reopened, with security cameras in place and temporary metal detectors to screen worshipers.

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Two President Trumps in Poland - will the @realDonaldTrump please stand up?

July 7, 2017  •  Fox News

Two President Donald Trumps were on display in Warsaw on Thursday. On the first full day of his second international trip, President Trump gave a dark, powerful prepared speech and held a news conference in which his impromptu remarks contradicted key portions of that speech. Will the @realDonaldTrump please stand up?

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Is Israel Catching Up Too Late to a Major Strategic Threat from Iran?

June 27, 2017  •  Tablet

Israel is increasingly obsessed with a new strategic threat—the possibility that eventually it may have to fight a two-front, and even three-front, war against Iran and its proxies. According to Chagai Tzuriel, director general of Israel's intelligence ministry, Iran is now negotiating with Damascus to build a base on the Mediterranean. He called Iran's effort to build a land corridor and establish a permanent forward operating presence on the sea the "most important strategic development in the region." All the rest, he said, was "noise."

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