The Iconoclast
JCS Chief General Dempsey’s last hurrah in Israel amidst alleged Israeli Cyber Spying on Iran Talks
JCS Chief Gen. Martin Dempsey and IDF Chief of Staff Gen. Gadi Eizenkot, Tel Aviv, June 9, 2015 Source: Reuters Outgoing Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. […]
By The Exertions Of Better Men
“War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much […]
Beware of the Color Orange
The war against the State of Israel never ceases. At one moment in May 2015 it is the attempt of the deputy secretary of Fatah and head of the Palestinian […]
Uber-Sunnis Killing The Druze — Time For A Druzistan?
Here. This will have repercussions. Already many Druze in Israel volunteer for the IDF. The Druze in the Golan for years pledged allegiance to the Assad regime, and deplored the […]
Ivan Rioufol: The Infantilisation Of The French Political Elite
Here.
Kurdish Hopes And Dreams
Here. The existence of an independent Kurdistan, likely to be established in what is now northern Iraq, would encourage Kurds elsewhere to seek inclusion, whether those Kurds live in Syria, […]
"Life Reeked With Joy"
Anders Henriksson’s classic compilation of sentences from student papers, re-posted here.
Pierre, Or The Ambiguities
Or if you prefer: Felix Krull, Confidence Man. The latest group of sheep to be taken in, by the latest wolf, a mysterious someone with a black Maserati, and a […]
A Musical Interlude: What’s The Use (Isham Jones Orch., voc. Frank Sylvano)
Listen here.
Let’s Ask The Country That Question — No, Let’s Ask The World
The rank stupidity of that supposedly standard interview question — “where do you see yourself in five years” — a question which merits something like death, or at least being […]
Did New Israel Fund Donations to Israeli BDS NGOs trigger Orange Boycott?
Misleading New Israel Fund Banner at New York Israel Day Parade, June 1, 2015 In our NER review of Manfred Gerstenfield’s latest book, The War with a Million Cuts, we […]
A Yemeni Stamp From The Early 1960s
Nasser got bogged down in Yemen, in 1962-63, fighting the “royalists” backed by Saudi Arabia, and the Yemenis celebrated their victory philatelically. Now other Yemenis, mostly with rifles, have fought […]
Jihad Against Jihad, Now And Forever
In Libya, the murderous madness ever multiplies. The sides keep splitting up into ever smaller groups, ending up not quite as numerous as the Libyan sands — quam magnus numerus […]
Not For An Age But For All Time
One more tragic loss, here.
At The French Lycee In Kuwait, The Blacking-Out Factory
The pictures show what happened. The bare breasts of Liberty, in Delacroix’s famous painting of the Revolution, Liberty Leading The People, have been blacked-out in the French schoolbook. Blacked-out, too, […]
Core Synergies in Israel’s Strategic Planning
To best serve Israel, the country’s strategic studies community should favor more conceptual or “molecular” assessments of expected security perils. Going forward therefore, it will not suffice for this community […]
