What is the importance of Trump’s pro-Israel initiatives?

Not much: Trump simply recognized long-accepted realities on the ground.
8%
Trump is solidifying a new Israeli, moderate Arab, and American anti-Iran axis.
32%
Trump is restoring America’s traditional pro-Israel policy mostly negated by the Obama administration.
32%
Trump has abandoned the disinterested role of the United States that made us an honest broker in the region.
11%
Overt favoritism toward Israel will lead to violence, maybe war, and anti-Americanism among Muslim nations.
17%
Total votes: 144
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This week in 1940, Winston Churchill delivers his first speech as Prime Minister before the British House of Commons, vowing “nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat." The Churchillian quote most relevant to these times

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
0%
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak. Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
0%
Socialism is a philosophy of failure . . . its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
0%
You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.
0%
Total votes: 0
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In the aftermath of the Mueller Report and the US Attorney General’s appearance on Capitol Hill, where do Congress and the executive branch go next? Should they

Investigative realms of appointed special prosecutors
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Address the boundaries of executive privilege/congressional oversight
0%
Define the “high crimes and misdemeanors” necessary for impeachment
0%
Look into the DOJ officials, the media, and politicized information leaks
0%
Ensure America’s voting system is more secure in 2020 than in 2016
0%
Total votes: 0
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This week in 1988, Mikhail Gorbachev promised Russian Orthodox leaders more religious freedom; two years later, on the same week, the destruction the Berlin Wall began. The greatest concern today regarding the old Soviet order

Russia developing more sophisticated first-strike weapons
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Defending the Baltic nations against a Russian invasion
0%
The revival of anti-Semitic folk traditions in Poland
0%
A regional rise of nationalism and anti-migrant sentiment
0%
The EU and six former SSRs maintaining close economic ties
0%
Total votes: 0
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This week in 1910, nine European monarchs posed for a photograph at Windsor Castle while attending the funeral of Britain’s Edward VII. Where would you like to see today’s rulers stand united?

Sanctioning rogue states
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Solving the migration crises
0%
Slowing nuclear proliferation
0%
Addressing climate change
0%
Ending foreign election-meddling
0%
Total votes: 0
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On the week that witnessed the 50th celebration of Earth Day and a call for heightened environmental stewardship, the greatest concern facing the planet is

Climate Change
0%
Overpopulation
0%
Poverty/Famine
0%
Nuclear Proliferation
0%
Principled Leadership
0%
Total votes: 0
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As the April 15th filing deadline comes and goes, your opinion of one of life’s two “certainties”

I pay too much in federal/state/local taxes
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I’d pay more in taxes if the cause is just
0%
I wish more tax reform/relief lay ahead
0%
I’m fine with the tax system in its current form
0%
Total votes: 0
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If indeed there’s no fool like an old fool, or an April’s Fool, it would be foolish to assume

Congress getting serious about deficits and debt
0%
Socialism fostering individualism and prosperity
0%
North Korea surrendering its nuclear ambitions
0%
Celebrities held to a normal standard of justice
0%
The 2020 election bridging the nation’s divide
0%
Total votes: 0
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This week in 1865, Robert E. Lee surrendered his Army of Northern Virginia – in his words: “to avoid useless effusion of blood.” As for talk of a new “civil war” dividing the country

Yes, America is experiencing another civil war but culturally, not militarily
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The states’ schism is over-stated – America has always had it differences
0%
2019 isn’t 1861 – no one’s firing at forts or seceding from the union anytime soon
0%
2019 is like 1861 – we are deeply divided; red states vs. blue states
0%
Total votes: 0
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Fifty years ago this week, Dwight D. Eisenhower passed away. The remarks he should be remembered for

His 1961 farewell address to the nation (“beware of the military industrial complex”)
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His first inaugural address (“a people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both”)
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His second inaugural address (“we are called to meet the price of peace”)
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His letter to the D-Day troops (“you are about to embark upon a great crusade”)
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His letter taking responsibility for D-Day in case it failed (“if any blame or fault attaches to the attempt, it is mine alone”)
0%
Total votes: 0
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