US foreign policy and the missing left

Consider the disaster of American foreign policy under President Donald Trump. While the president spent his first year in office trading insults with the dictator of North Korea, that country has moved steadily forward with its nuclear program, and the United States has moved steadily closer to a war that no one wants.

Visiting injured pilots, Rivlin says Israel ‘proved’ it can deal with Iran

President Reuven Rivlin visiting IDF pilots injured when an Israeli F-16 was downed upon its return from Syria, February 11, 2018. President Reuven Rivlin on Sunday visited the two injured IAF pilots whose F-16 fighter jet was downed by an apparent Syrian anti-aircraft missile on Saturday, praising them for their quick response and issuing fresh warnings to Iran.

IDF Shoots Down Iranian Drone In Northern Israel, Hits 12 Targets In Syria

Israel will do "whatever is necessary" to protect itself against aggression from Iran and Syria, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said hours after an Iranian drone infiltration from Syria. Israel's Air Force downed the Iranian drone in airspace over northern Israel on Saturday morning, and followed the infiltration by attacking 12 targets in Syria, including three aerial defense batteries and four Iranian targets that are part of Iran's military establishment in Syria, the IDF said in a statement.

New Analysis: Israeli, Iranian confrontation in Syria unlikely to escalate into war

Experts believe that recent friction between Israel and Syrian army forces shows Iran might have changed "rules" on its strategy towards Israel but situation is unlikely to develop into a full-fledge war. The Israeli army launched a large-scale attack against the Syrian aerial defense system and Iranian targets in Syria after an Israeli F-16 fighter was hit by missiles from Syria and crashed Saturday morning.

Iranian UAV that entered Israeli airspace seems to be American stealth knock-off

IAF's second-in-command says drone, which was reportedly similar to aircraft seized by Tehran in 2011, was advanced and based on Western technology The remains of an Iranian drone that was shot down by the Israeli Air Force after it penetrated Israeli airspace on February 10, 2018. The Iranian drone shot down by the Israeli Air Force early Saturday morning appears to have been a relatively new stealth model whose design was stolen from an American unmanned aerial vehicle that was captured by Iran in 2011, according to aviation analysts.

Israel downs Iranian drone and strikes Syria as F-16 crashes

In its most serious engagement in neighboring Syria since fighting there began in 2011, Israel shot down an infiltrating Iranian drone Saturday and struck Iranian targets deep in Syria before one of its own jets was downed. The sudden escalation offers what could be a harbinger of what lies ahead as the Syrian fighting winds down and an emboldened Iran establishes a military presence that Israel vows it will never accept.

Syria confirms rare US airstrike on pro-government forces

This photo provided by the Syrian Civil Defense group known as the White Helmets, shows a civil defense worker carrying a wounded man after airstrikes hit a rebel-held suburb near Damascus, Syria, Monday, Fe... . This photo provided by the Syrian Civil Defense group known as the White Helmets, shows civilians standing near a body after airstrikes hit a rebel-held suburb near Damascus, Syria, Monday, Feb. 5, 2018.

Islamic State fighters fleeing Syria await orders for renewed battle

Washington : Thousands of Islamic State foreign fighters and family members have escaped the US-led military campaign in eastern Syria, according to new classified US and other Western military and intelligence assessments, a flow that threatens to tarnish US declarations that the militant group has been largely defeated. As many of the fighters flee unfettered to the south and west through Syrian army lines, some have gone into hiding near Damascus, the Syrian capital, and in the country's north-west, awaiting orders sent by insurgent leaders on encrypted communications channels.

Young US Jews Write 700 Letters of Solidarity to Ahed Tamimi

Two left-wing groups in the U.S. organized the letters campaign and protests marking the the 17th birthday of the imprised Palestinian teen. More than 700 Jewish young people from the U.S. wrote letters of solidarity to Ahed Tamimi, the iconic Palestinian 17-year-old who was arrested by Israeli authorities last month and charged with 12 counts including assaulting an occupation soldier and stone throwing after a video of her slapping a soldier at her home's yard went viral.

8 Turkish troops die in Syria operation; Russian pilot slain

'Kill Bill' actress Uma Thurman accuses embattled Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein of forcing himself upon her sexually and director Quentin Tarantino of making her perform a dangerous car stunt that injured her. 'Kill Bill' actress Uma Thurman accuses embattled Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein of forcing himself upon her sexually and director Quentin Tarantino of making her perform a dangerous car stunt that injured her.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg says she will serve as long as she has ‘steam’

US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg told a Jewish audience that she would serve on the Supreme Court as long as she felt up to it. Ginsburg, appearing Thursday at a Forward event at Adas Israel synagogue in Washington DC, appeared to confirm recent reports that she plans on serving through Donald Trump's presidency.

28 Killed In Syrian Army Air Attacks

Aerial bombardment by the Syrian Army in northwest Syria, the biggest remaining rebel-held enclave, killed at least 28 people on Thursday, a war monitor said. Warplanes and helicopters struck in Idlib, Hama and Aleppo provinces, including in the towns of Saraqeb and Kafr Nabouda, said the war monitor, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

Lawsuit saying Twitter aided Islamic State thrown out by US appeals court

A federal appeals court in San Francisco ruled on Wednesday that Twitter Inc is not liable to families of two U.S. government contractors killed in an Islamic State attack in Jordan for having failed to block that group from using its accounts and messaging services. The Twitter logo is displayed on a screen on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange in New York City, U.S., September 28, 2016.

Rep. Frelinghuysen: A stranger among us

Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen announced this week that, after 23 years in the U.S. House of Representatives, he won't be running for re-election this year. He may have decided differently if he'd been more attuned to listening to others - as Moses did in this week's Torah portion, Yitro.

I’m Not A Rich Jew – And I Hate The Stereotype

On a recent business trip to L.A., when I mentioned I was Jewish, an Asian businessman told me that his son would ask him daily: "Dad, why was I not born a Jew, they are so smart and so rich!" I smiled at the "compliment." That's what's called a positive stereotype - like the ones that all Asian-Americans are good at math.