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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is coming out swinging against the coalition of opposition groups that have come together to oust him, calling it the “fraud of the century.”In televised remarks to the Israeli people Sunday night, the defiant leader made it clear he was not going down without a fight.“This is not unity, healing or democracy. This is an opportunistic government. A government of capitulation, a government of fraud, a government of inertia. A government like this must not be formed,” the Israeli leader said of the unity pact between opposition groups to oust him after 12 years in...

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Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) says President Obama has undermined Israel’s national security by doing little to stop Iran from developing nuclear weapons and advanced missile technology.Cruz delivered his sharp critique of Obama after meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other senior officials during a trip to Israel and Eastern Europe.“Perhaps the most striking aspect of my entire time in Israel was the unanimity of views on the gravity of threat that Iran presents and the ineffectiveness of the administration’s approach to deal with it,” he told reporters during a conference call from Poland.He called the possibility of Iran...

Israel’s predicament today is the work of Rabin and Sharon; two generals turned prime ministers who launched ambitious ventures and died leaving them unfinished and their nation in twilight. Rabin’s peace process destroyed Israeli national security and revitalized terrorism as a force in political affairs. Had he lived, he might have turned away from it. The idea had been thrust on him by the fringe left and he had grasped it as a hedge against the political oblivion of a leftist party that had lost credibility in a new Israel no longer dominated by the Socialist vision of cooperatives and...

School Safety: Critics of the National Rifle Association's call for armed security guards at our schools respond that one famous school did have a sheriff's deputy on scene. But without him, the toll would have been much worse. After remaining silent on the mass shooting at Sandy Hook, the NRA's Wayne LaPierre held a press conference Friday to condemn another tragedy in a gun-free zone and to advocate the placement of armed security guards at our schools as is done at airports, banks and other public venues. "It's now time for us to assume responsibility for our schools," he said....