Mere Rhetoric

Contentions Roundup: Obama’s Anti-Israel Myths

Omri Ceren — Sat, 26 May 2012 10:16:49 +0000

A roundup of recent Commentary Contentions posts on the resiliency, when confronted with empirical data, of the President’s anti-Israel foreign policy sensibilities: Final Blow to Anti-Israel Linkage Myths? Obama’s Telling Silence State Department Spin on Jerusalem Meltdown is Already Wrong

Contentions Roundup: Iranian Intentions, Israeli Perceptions, Etc

Omri Ceren — Fri, 25 May 2012 09:58:51 +0000

A roundup of recent Commentary Contentions posts on Iran, its nuclear program, and what the Israelis seem prepared to do about it: Viewing Iran: Optimism or Annihilation? German Paper: North Korea Tested Nuclear Warhead for Iran Left Tries to Spin...

Iran’s Fist Roundup: Months and Months and Months Of Pursuing Nuclear Weapons

Omri Ceren — Thu, 24 May 2012 16:56:58 +0000

A roundup of posts on Iran’s fairly open drive to develop nuclear weapons, plus a couple posts about Sunni breakout and global proliferation. From Is Iran’s Fist Still Clenched, which has daily updates on extended hands, carrots and sticks, reset...

Contentions Roundup: Obama Bows To Turkey On Israel

Omri Ceren — Thu, 24 May 2012 09:53:33 +0000

A roundup of recent Commentary Contentions posts on how Obama is allowing AKP neo-Ottomans in Turkey to drive a wedge between the United States, NATO, and Israel. The second post is roughly as comprehensive a link dump as you’ll find:...

Contentions Roundup: The Elusive Crisis Of Zionism

Omri Ceren — Wed, 23 May 2012 09:48:43 +0000

A roundup of recent Commentary Contentions posts on the misguided solipsism of the Jewish-American far left. Since they don’t know many pro-Israel American Jews, the reasoning appears to go, there must not be many pro-Israel Jews left in America: Study...

Omri On RT’s (Russia Today’s) CrossTalk: Tehran Talking

Omri Ceren — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 05:34:29 +0000

On one hand RT is a global broadcasting juggernaut and the second most-watched foreign news channel in the United States. Peter Lavelle’s CrossTalk is the flagship show on the network’s flagship news channel. So there’s something to be said for...

Contentions Roundup: US, Israeli, and German Perceptions On Iran Don’t All… Line Up

Omri Ceren — Sat, 14 Apr 2012 17:05:27 +0000

A roundup of recent Commentary Contentions posts on Iran, including the very real possibility that very real possibility that the Obama administration doesn’t quite get what’s going on inside the Islamic Republic: U.S. Intel Undermined by Iraq, Obama With Eye...

Contentions Roundup: Walt, Mearsheimer, Breathtakingly Dishonest Attacks On Israel, Etc.

Omri Ceren — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 17:54:23 +0000

A roundup of recent Commentary Contentions posts having to do with Walt, Mearsheimer, and other academics and self-styled intellectuals who peddle demonstrably false anti-Israel nonsense: Is Stephen Walt Responsible for Inspiring Terror Suspect Jose Pimentel? Mearsheimer’s Anti-Semitism...

Contentions Roundup: Obama Seems To Have Somewhat Mismanaged The Arab Spring

Omri Ceren — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 03:37:14 +0000

Four months’ worth of Commentary Contentions posts on how this administration managed to the Arab Spring, with Islamists taking control of Egypt and Libya, and a pro-Iranian sociopath continues murdering thousands of his own people in Syria: Militias Out of...

Contentions Roundup: More Anti-Israel UN and EU Spectacles

Omri Ceren — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 15:14:34 +0000

A roundup of recent and not so recent Commentary Contentions posts on the UN’s anti-Israel diplomacy, the EU’s anti-Israel diplomacy, the Palestinians’ UN and EU-facilitated anti-Israel diplomacy, and so on: UNRWA Slams Israeli Self-Defense Palestinians to Use UNESCO to Ban...