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Knife attack at the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin
It’s Friday! A paraphrase from Bild A man was attacked around 6pm this evening at the Holocaust memorial in Berlin, near to the US embassy. Police spokesman Florian Nath said […]
Strong Advice But Will Anyone Pay Attention?
By Phyllis Chesler The prophet Samuel annointed Israel’s first King, Shaul. It was a terrible idea from the beginning. And why? Because the Jews wanted to be like other nations, […]
The televised statement of IDF Spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari
From The Times of Israel The televised statement of IDF Spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari. Hagari said the evidence clearly showed that they were not killed in an airstrike as […]
Chechen teen held for planning attack on Israeli Embassy in Berlin
From the Times of Israel and the Jerusalem Post An 18-year-old ethnic Chechen has been arrested on suspicion of planning an attack on the Israeli Embassy in Berlin, German newspaper Bild […]
Pete Hegseth’s Military
By Victor Davis Hanson I’d like to speak a little bit today, very briefly, about the Pentagon under new Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. Did you notice that of all the controversial […]
‘Unspeakably evil’: Kfir, Ariel Bibas were brutally murdered in Gaza captivity, not by IAF strike and Hamas did not return Shiri Bibas, sent anonymous body, IDF confirms.
From The Jerusalem Post, here and here. And Ynet News The IDF confirmed on Friday morning that the hostage remains released on Thursday belonged to Ariel and Kfir Bibas. However, the third […]
Realities, politics, and the press: a comment on Trump, Ukraine, and Gaza
By Lev Tsitrin Machiavelli’s foundational contribution to political science was to decouple state policy from morality — or at least from morality as conventionally understood by an individual. To all […]
I’m like literally LMAO
pic.twitter.com/SZIEkUjUZC — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 19, 2025
The AP’s Dangerous Language Dictatorship
By Roger L Simon Racket News’ Matt Taibbi tells us Donald Trump is trolling the Associated Press by, according to the news organization itself, “telling them what words to use.”. Mr. Taibbi […]
Tom Hanks, Margaret Brennan, and the European Ministers—Reveal It All
By Victor Davis Hanson Three recent but completely unrelated events illustrate the deranged hatred of Donald Trump and his supporters continuing now even into a second decade. And yet the […]
Congress Mark Green on USAID
By Armando Simón I rarely submit to The Iconoclast speeches made by other individuals, unless they are remarkable, my main motivation being that they not be overlooked since the […]
Trump’s Counterrevolution in Washington
By Victor Davis Hanson I want to talk about the Trump counterrevolution, not the revolution. There’s been a lot of false information—what the Left calls misinformation, disinformation—about what’s going on in these […]
The Jews are not going anywhere
By Phyllis Chesler No matter what our individual views may be, whether or not we are religious, Jews are indigenous to the Holy Land. What kind of a liberation movement […]
Hamas parade hostage coffins on stage
Two small children, their Mum and their neighbour a good man, the grandfather and great-grandfather of his own family. Please pray for their families, in whatever form you pray, who […]
Austria arrests 14-year-old on suspicion of planning a terrorist attack in Vienna
From the Austrian edition of The Local Austrian authorities have prevented a planned attack at Vienna’s Westbahnhof railway station, arresting a 14-year-old suspect. The teenager was detained on February 10th […]
Their Democracy
By Bruce Gilley A government agency seeks to delegitimize conservative politics. The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) used to be one of those gloriously bipartisan institutions where Democrats and Republicans […]
