Tag: Donald Trump
Trump signs anti-genocide act, anti-Semitism resolution into law
U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday signed new bipartisan legislation committing the United States to preventing genocide, named in honor of Holocaust survivor and Nobel Prize laureate Elie Wiesel.
The Elie Wiesel Genocide and Atrocities...
Intellect and politics: Trumpian opposites
"All our dignity," observed Blaise Pascal back in the 17th century, "consists in thought... Let us labor then to think well: this is the foundation of morality." To be sure, this simple truth is being...
![U.S. Department of State from United States [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons](https://jewishwebsite.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/784px-Secretary_Pompeo_Participates_in_Press_Conference_With_President_Trump_at_NATO_41551661440-324x235.jpg "Who’s in charge? Pompeo or Trump")
Who’s in charge? Pompeo or Trump
There were a great many differences between President Barack Obama’s June 2009 Cairo speech and the address delivered on Jan. 10 in the same city by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. As Pompeo repeatedly...
Jewish groups criticize Georgia Democrat for comparing Trump to Hitler
Rep. Hank Johnson (D-Ga.) compared U.S. President Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler this week during a sermon he delivered at Atlanta’s Friendship Baptist Church.
“The Jewish people know a thing about tyranny,” said Johnson at...
Netanyahu: Trump won’t roll out Mideast peace plan before Israeli election
The Trump administration will not present its long-awaited Middle East peace plan before the Israeli election, set for April 9, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday.
The rollout for the plan,...
Who are the real isolationists in America?
Ever since President Donald Trump astounded the world by announcing the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Syria, commentators have been trying to work out the significance of this decision.
Among those conservatives who believe America...
Haley: Trump wanted to cut funding to those that voted down UN Hamas resolution
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley said in a Dec. 6 speech that U.S. President Donald Trump wanted to cut funding to countries that voted against a United Nations that condemned Hamas...
US poised to present Middle East peace plan ‘soon,’ says senior adviser Kushner
Following months of having to focus on the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi and its subsequent fallout, the White House is now ready to move its attention in the Middle East back to...
Influencing North Korea’s nuclear calculations: Trump’s obligation to think strategically
It should now be obvious that the North Korean ruler has no intention of giving up his country’s growing nuclear weapons program. To insistently demand “complete denuclearization” from Kim Jung Un represents a foolish...
The US “Defeat” of ISIS: An Improbable Victory
Rabbi Eleazar quoted Rabbi Hanina, who said: "Scholars build the structure of peace in the world." (The Babylonian Talmud, Order Zera'im, Tractate Berakoth, IX)
On several occasions, US President Donald Trump has proudly announced the "defeat"...