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Despite Personal Prejudice, Richard Nixon Did the Right Thing on Israel

For many, President Richard Nixon remains a villain. Until this very day, the journalist Carl Bernstein, who alongside Bob Woodward helped uncover the Watergate scandal, never misses an opportunity to blast the late president. Indeed, tapes of Nixon’s paranoid tirades and witness testimony confirm that the disgraced president expressed antisemitic sentiments.

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THE FLIGHT FROM THE (MORAL) RIGHT

The flight from moral responsibility continues unabated. The politics of former President Trump and the culture that created him and that he spread, a culture of revenge, humiliation, and attacks on those possessing the wrong religion, nationality, sexuality, or political party, along with an utter disdain for democracy, is the big story of the last decade, but the craven behavior of Congress has followed closely behind.

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ISRAEL CRISIS-IT IS MUCH MORE THAN A LEGAL REFORM

ISRAEL CRISIS-IT IS MUCH MORE THAN A LEGAL REFORM

For nearly six months, Israel has been gripped in an internal crisis described by many as the most severe challenge to its very viability as a democratic state. Israel experienced significant crises, such as the Altalena crisis in June 1948, only weeks after the establishment of the state, the reparations from Germany crisis in 1952, the turbulent period after the Oslo Accords climaxed with the assassination of PM Rabin in 1995, and the Disengagement from Gaza in 2005.

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NEGATING AFFIRMATIVE ACTION

Both programs lack sufficiently focused and measurable objectives warranting the use of race, unavoidably employ race in a negative manner, involve racial stereotyping, and lack meaningful endpoints. . . . We have never permitted admissions programs to work out that way, and we will not do so today.

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This is a serious national security problem that cannot be ignored.

“Iran poised to strike U.S. from Venezuela with acts of terror”
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Luis Fleischman, Ph.D.

co-President of the Palm Beach Center for Democracy & Policy Research and director for the InterAmerican Institute for Democracy

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