“There was a view that Hamas would not screw that up.” Information about the attack is still being pieced together, but we now know that some of the Hamas terrorists had been agricultural workers who received permits to enter Israel from Gaza. Others provided information to Hamas. “What people don’t understand is that while Hamas […]
Thomas Nides Admits He ‘Screwed Up’ in Praying for ‘Both Sides’ After Jihad Massacre of Israelis
The latest American official to admit he was wrong in the comment he made about a recent flare-up of Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorism and the IDF’s response to it is Ambassador to Israel Thomas Nides, who has just returned to Washington from his Jerusalem posting, no doubt to return to civilian life as a well-paid […]
Why It’s Wrong to Denounce Israel for Those Settler Rampages
Israeli settlers, having endured the latest series of killings in Judea and Samaria – the murders of the Yaniv brothers, of Lucy Dee and her two daughters, of Meri Tamari, and then, of four Israeli civilians at a gas station near the settlement of Eli – by Palestinian terrorists, finally exploded in rage and despair […]
Thomas Nides and the Fine Art of Shutting Up
When four Israeli civilians were gunned down at a gas station in mid-June, and the IDF then killed the terrorists, and followed it up with a raid into Jenin, Ambassador Thomas Nides decided he had to deplore equally the deaths of those Israeli civilians and of the Palestinian terrorists who murdered them. This was how […]
Thomas Nides: Stumble-Bum In The Promised Land
Thomas Nides is the American Ambassador to Israel. He has not exactly endeared himself to the Israelis in the little more than two years he’s been in their country, for he has a supercilious habit of telling them what he, the grand panjandrum and viceroy from Washington, thinks they should do. More on this stumble-bumbling […]
Thomas Nides, An Offensive Mr. Buttinsky
Thomas Nides is the American Ambassador to Israel. He has not exactly endeared himself to the Israelis in the two years he’s been in their country, for he has a supercilious habit of telling them what he, the grand panjandrum and viceroy sent out to the colonies from Washington, thinks they should do. More on […]
Israel strikes back after Biden regime interference: ‘I say to the American ambassador, mind your own business’
The unelected bureaucrats of the Israeli judiciary are the primary force for the Left in that country, which is why the Biden regime loves them so much, and unhesitatingly interferes in Israel’s internal affairs on their behalf. It is good to see Israel pushing back against this high-handedness. “’Mind your own business’: Israeli minister tells […]
The Magical Thinking of Thomas Nides, Condoleezza Rice, and John Kerry
Thomas Nides, the American ambassador to Israel, former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, and former just-about-everything John Kerry are all very sure of themselves, especially when it comes to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. More on these three can be found here: “The Biden Administration continues the willful blindness of its pre-Trump predecessors,” by Daled Amos, Elder […]
Thomas Nides, Biden’s Ambassador to Israel
Thomas Nides, the Biden administration’s new ambassador to Israel, has some very firm views on what Israel must do, in his view, to achieve a “two-state solution.” Jerold Auerbach discusses Nides’ performance so far, which he has weighted and found wanting, here: “Another Biden Blunder in Pick for Israel Envoy,” Algemeiner, March 21, 2022: Nides […]
Biden’s Israel Ambassador Tells BDS Group He Wants Jews Out of Jerusalem
“Your agenda is where my heart is.” Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism. Biden’s ambassador to Israel appeared at a pro-BDS group’s webinar co-hosted by its CEO, who had described Israel as an “oppressive regime”, and told […]