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Jun 25, 2018, 12:13 AM

The Times They Are A-Changin’

CHANGING TIMES — The German government just signed a deal to lease drones manufactured in Israel. This means that the Luftwaffe is flying Israeli aircraft and the Israeli navy is operating German U-boats. Meanwhile, the Israeli government wished the Saudi soccer team success in its...

Jun 20, 2018, 10:18 PM

Are Nazi Comparisons Fair?

The Holocaust was so horrific and unique, that comparisons belittle the meaning of that period of world history. So it is with comparing Donald Trump’s zero tolerance immigration policy of family separation. We’re not talking about mass extermination and genocide. Just a policy built on...

Jun 14, 2018, 5:30 AM

What Nixon could teach Trump

A Trump appointee has been assigned to make lists of U.S employees at the State Department, the United Nations and international agencies to determine whether they are loyal to President Donald Trump and his political agenda, Foreign Policy reports. It adds that this McCarthy/Nixon tactic...

Apr 20, 2018, 5:29 PM

Will Cohen Flip?

Many of President Trump’s friends are said to be worried that his personal attorney-fixer-bagman Michael Cohen will turn on him and cooperate with the feds in order to avoid jail time. It’s a legitimate worry considering that loyalty is a one-way street in Turmpville. Cohen...

Apr 12, 2018, 7:11 PM

Trump Peace Plan

President Trump’s new national security advisor, John Bolton, started work on Monday, and his choice for secretary of state, CIA Director Mike Pompeo, is on Capitol Hill this week for his confirmation hearings, and their agenda’s are already brimming. The president is mulling over –...

Apr 7, 2018, 11:21 PM

Trump’s New Team Adds Uncertainty

President Trump’s foreign policy shakeup adds new worries about Iran’s nuclear ambitions. He will have to decide by May 12 whether to recertify Iranian compliance with Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), the nuclear agreement. He has called it “the worst deal ever” and threatened...

Apr 7, 2018, 12:05 AM

Déjà vu All Over Again?

When President Trump said the other day that “millions and millions of people” voted “many times” in California, he wasn’t mistaken. He was all-out lying. “In many places the same person in California votes many times. They always like to say, ‘Oh that’s a conspiracy...

Mar 26, 2018, 11:52 PM

‘Never Again!’ Student Demonstrators Warn: ‘We Vote’

It was a clash of messages and generations. Close to a million showed up on the Mall in Washington and around the country. Their message to the Congress — which had conveniently left town along with President Donald the day before — was “We vote.”...

Mar 20, 2018, 4:43 PM

Are Settlements Obstacles Or Incentives?

Ariel Sharon stands in front of the Temple Mount during his term as prime minister in July 2000 (file photo: Flash90)

Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer told AIPAC’s 18,000 delegates that Israeli settlements are not obstacles to peace. He’s wrong. They are and that’s what they were intended to be. My source is the man known as the patron of the settler movement, Ariel Sharon. I...

Mar 12, 2018, 7:49 AM

The great Jewish philosopher Julius Marx famously said, “Those are my principles, and if you don’t like them… well, I have others.” Groucho could be defining the Trump administration’s foreign policy, if it even has one. The president himself is inconsistent, erratic, uninformed and often...

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Douglas M. Bloomfield is a syndicated columnist, Washington lobbyist and consultant. He spent nine years as the legislative director and chief lobbyist for AIPAC.