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With Trump Set To Accede
An Otherworldly Pessimism
Engulfs the Democrats
By CONRAD BLACK, Special to the Sun
January 3, 2017
Like most people, I had hoped for the customary settling down after the tumultuous and nasty election. We have been denied that, not by the candidates, who have been dignified, but by the outgoing administration. I have written here and elsewhere…
Tom Cotton, in Policy Error,
Seeks To Slow Immigration
— Of Even Legal Entrants
By IRA STOLL, Special to the Sun
January 2, 2017
The junior senator from Arkansas, Tom Cotton, appeared on “Fox News Sunday” on New Year’s Day and was asked about the New York Times op-ed piece about immigration that had appeared under his byline a few days earlier. Fox News’ anchor, Shannon Bream…
Michael Bloomberg’s Jerusalem
Editorial of The New York Sun
December 30, 2016
Congratulations are in order to Mayor Bloomberg for his stance in respect of Jerusalem. The Bloomberg View issued on Tuesday an unsigned editorial headlined “Obama’s Betrayal of Israel at the U.N. Must Not Stand.” It’s an exceptionally clear…
Kerry Leaves Public Life
The Way He Came In —
Turning Against an Ally
By SETH LIPSKY, Special to the Sun
December 29, 2016
It looks like Secretary of State Kerry is determined to go out the way he came in — wrapping himself in the flag while betraying the causes of both America and its allies. He came in by doing that to Vietnam and is going out by turning on Israel. Mr…
How Jews Gained Okay
For ‘Close Settlement’
Of Judea and Samaria
By JEROLD S. AUERBACH, Special to the Sun
December 28, 2016
President Obama’s passive aggression toward Israel has been evident ever since his Cairo speech five months after his accession to the presidency. After affirming “unbreakable” bonds between America and Israel, he segued to Palestinians. They “endure…
EDITORIALS ›
A Problem From Hell, Indeed
Editorial of The New York Sun
December 23, 2016
The best way for President-elect Trump to view the Obama administration’s betrayal of Israel in the United Nations is as the starting bell for a campaign to defund the world body. This is already being signaled by Senator Lindsey Graham, who chairs…
United Nations on the Brink
Editorial of The New York Sun
December 23, 2016
Shocking is the only word for the mincing behavior of the Obama administration amid the campaign by the Palestinian Arabs to win an anti-Israel resolution in the Security Council during the transition of power in America. The measure comes up for a…
Yes, Virginia . . .
Editorial of The New York Sun
December 21, 2016
We take pleasure in answering thus prominently the communication below, expressing at the same time our great gratification that its faithful author is numbered among the friends of The Sun: Dear Editor— I am 8 years old. Some of my little friends say…
FOREIGN ›
Israel-America Treaty
Beckons as a Strategy
Against a Hostile U.N.
By IRA STOLL, Special to the Sun
December 26, 2016
One of the paradoxes of Zionism is that a movement for Jewish national self-determination has found itself so often at the mercy of gentiles. Precedent for this goes all the way back at least to Cyrus the Great, the Persian king who 2,600 years ago…
Call It the Dugri Doctrine:
Plain Talk From Trump
Startles the Middle East
By BENNY AVNI, Special to the Sun
December 17, 2016
Roughly translated, “dugri” means “straightforwardness.” Antonym: diplomatic ambiguity. The Turkic word, pronounced DOOH-gree, entered the Hebrew language and became a staple of Israeli discourse. President-elect Trump’s approach to diplomacy appears…
Canada’s Brian Mulroney
Is Urged To ‘Rein in’
President-Elect Trump
By CONRAD BLACK, Special to the Sun
December 16, 2016
A pandemic of denial over the incoming president of the United States grips his Democratic opponents, and, like most American fads and traits, is as strong in Canada as anywhere. It is now five weeks since the election, and we have watched an…