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Oct 3, 2024 | 
washingtonexaminer.com | Clifford Ray Smith
Numbers are everywhere in Washington. Budgets, deficits, statistical studies, probability analysis, trade figures, and so on. Sometimes, numbers are being used opaquely, to obscure what’s really going on. It’s an occupational hazard if you work in public policy in Washington, D.C.Other times, however, the numbers tell a story that is so obvious it’s downright funny.
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Aug 23, 2024 | 
washingtonexaminer.com | Clifford Ray Smith
Earlier this month, Iran’s most well-known foreign proxy, Lebanon’s Hezbollah, launched numerous rockets at Israel, making international headlines. It is seen as part of Iran’s expected response to the assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh on its own soil, which Iran blamed, or credited, depending on your point of view, on Israel. Yet Hezbollah launching rockets at Israel is not new. It’s been continuous starting almost immediately after Hamas’s assault on Oct. 7, 2023.
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Aug 3, 2024 | 
nationalreview.com | Clifford Ray Smith
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Dec 30, 2023 | 
meforum.org | Clifford Ray Smith |Azad Essa
Essa is perhaps the foremost voice decrying close relations between India and Israel. He deems them twin purveyors of "settler-colonialism, occupation and apartheid."Indeed, Hostile Homelands is just Essa's latest effort. Since 2021, he ran a Substack newsletter titled "Militarists and Vegetarians" that critiques the India-Israel relationship. He writes columns for Qatari-government owned outlets such as Al Jazeera and Middle East Eye, his most recent employers, making the same argument.
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Oct 29, 2023 | 
nationalreview.com | Clifford Ray Smith
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Oct 29, 2023 | 
meforum.org | Clifford Ray Smith
After the mass terrorist atrocity along the Israel/Gaza border on October 7, we had the horrific sight of radicals on American campuses siding with Hamas. For example, some student organizations have overtly engaged in clear victim-blaming. One Cornell professor even overtly celebrated Hamas murders. This kind of extremism has caused some businesses to run for the hills; they've withdrawn job offers and threatened to never hire the students involved.
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Oct 20, 2023 | 
nationalreview.com | Clifford Ray Smith
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Oct 20, 2023 | 
meforum.org | Clifford Ray Smith
The horrific acts of terrorism that emerged from Gaza on October 7 are without recent precedent. The atrocities are being described by Israelis as the worst since the Holocaust. Such acts of savagery call for reevaluating our existing alliances and relationships and reorienting our diplomacy. The sad truth of the matter is that two formal U.S. allies, Turkey and Qatar, are, apart from Iran, the most important state sponsors of Hamas in the world.
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Oct 8, 2023 | 
nationalinterest.org | Gregg Roman |Clifford Ray Smith
In the tumultuous wake of an unprecedented attack on Israel by Hamas forces from Gaza, a defining moment has arisen for United States foreign policy. As a longstanding ally of Israel, the U.S. is compelled to reevaluate its stance and actions amidst a conflict steeped in complexity and historical precedent. The escalation of violence prompts the consideration of stringent policy measures aimed at curbing the Islamist organization’s aggression and restoring stability in the region.
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May 31, 2023 | 
australianjewishnews.com | Clifford Ray Smith
Last year, a civilian court in Israel convicted and sentenced Mohammad El Halabi, a former employee of the large evangelical aid organisation World Vision, of diverting funds to the terrorist group Hamas. World Vision has stood by its man, and the scant coverage of the episode largely followed the organisation’s talking points – criticising the Israeli court system for excessive secrecy and uncritically mentioning outside audits supposedly exonerating World Vision.
