The Iconoclast
Youssef Al Yafai: A Backward-Looking Glance At The Six-Day War
He’s unable to see that Israel never tried to disrupt its neighbors, or set them one again another. It was never Israel that wanted war with the Arabs. War, Jihad, […]
There can be no peace in Jordan until the world appreciates the country’s true ethnography
written with Salim Mansur and first published in the
The Jerusalem Embassy Act of 1995
Jerrold Sobel writes in the Jerusalem Embassy Act of 1995 and the will of the current Congress, President Obama joined the ranks of previous feckless administrations refusing to move the American Embassy […]
Obama Must Join Putin in the Fight Against Islamist Terrorism
Western concern with Russia in the last few years has largely been about actions in Ukraine. Important though that issue may be, the more significant issue and the greatest threat […]
Into Darkness
Of the making of books there is no end; but seldom can there have been so appalling a spur to writing—or at least to dictating—a book as that felt by […]
Canada’s treatment of aboriginals was shameful, but it was not genocide
I yield to no one in my fervour to make amends to the native people for violations of treaty rights and other mistreatment, but the phrase “cultural genocide,” as I […]
Uproar over Iran Nuclear Program at the Jerusalem Post 2015 Annual Conference
It is not often that Obama Cabinet secretaries get booed and jeered by American Jewish activists in public for presenting the Administration’s case for a possible P5+1 deal with […]
Erdogan Foiled — The Despot Won’t Be Quite So Despotic From Now On
Here. “This is the victory of democracy over loutishness, of freedom over oppression, of modesty over conceit, of peace over war,” he[an oposition party leader] said.
We’ve Been Here Before — And Also After
The artist Abel Pann’s take during World War I, on les nations (re)unies placing the blame, here.
Las Vegas Summit on Campus Anti-BDS Initiative
Haim Saban, Sheldon and Dr. Miriam Adelson, Las Vegas, June 5, 2015 Source: Israel Hayom/Boaz Bismuth In our review of Manfred Gerstenfield’s, The War of a Million Cuts we […]
Danish Muslims urged not to vote
From the Danish edition of declared its support for Isis, issued
Iddo Netanyahu And "A Happy End"
This was first publiished in 2012. It does not date.
Henri Guaino, Sarkozy’s Aide, On The Calamitous Terrorism Of The Bien-Pensants
A Daniel come to judgement? Well, until the real thing comes along. He sounds good. Here.
Scottish Sceptic, David Hume, on the Subject of Mohammed, and Islam
A little something to go with that other bon mot from David Hume to which Hugh Fitzgerald has already drawn attention. “But would we know, whether the pretended prophet (that […]
“These are the Boys of Pointe du Hoc… Champions who helped to free a Continent. The Heroes who helped end a war” Pres. Reagan, 40th Anniversary of D-Day, June 6, 1984
President Reagan and the Rangers who survived Pointe du Hoc on D-Day, Normandy, June 6, 1984 As a child of six on June 6, 1944, I listened as the family […]
Hume On Muslims
From Hume’s “Of Refinement in the Arts” (Green and Grose, Hume’s Philosophical Works, 3:302) “I believe every man would think his life or fortune much less secure in the hands […]
