The failed cargo bomb plot in Yemen, which occurred just days before the American mid-term elections on November 2, are once again an excellent microcosm of the problems facing America and the West. The bombs were found only after two cargo planes had been intercepted, one in Dubai and one in England, and after...
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As the attention of much of the United States has been primarily focused, due to today’s elections, on domestic issues, as well as on the sardonic Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert non-rally-rally on the National Mall, the foreign policy stage remains deadly serious. Yet, we as a nation have lost our focus. First and...
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(A version of this article also appears in today’s Washington Jewish Weekly) Jerusalem- I am sitting on a terrace overlooking the Judean Hills, framing the Knesset, the Israeli Parliament building. The early morning sun has bathed the new day in a majestic splendor. My grandfather, a sweet, learned rabbi from Europe, who saw much...
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Kafka is alive and well and lives in a building in Turtle Bay, New York, called the United Nations. The United Nations had been a very noble experiment. Conceived in the midst of the earthquake to the civilized world that was the Holocaust, the premeditated, systematic attempted total annihilation of the European Jewish community,...
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From AEI (H/T Sarah Stern):Today, in the Name of Islam, Synagogues Are Vandalised Take anti-Semitism in Europe. The sensitivity and guilt Europeans feel about the Holocaust is comparable to the sensitivity and guilt that Americans feel towards black Americans. A decade or two ago, it was unthinkable for Jews to be slandered openly and...
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Also from Commentary this piece by Mark Steyn, which reflects a little on the loom threats to Europe which I mentioned briefly in my post on Oren’s article, as well as the existential threat Oren called delegitimization. (H/T Carl in Jerusalem): A European Holocaust Memorial Day on which Jews are stoned sounds like a...
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An excellent piece from Palestinian Media Watch’s Barbara Crook on the prevalance of hate-mongering in the Muslim world: The world reacted with outrage at the speech by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at the Durban Review Conference on Racism in Geneva. European countries stormed out of his talk and released an array of statements condemning...
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(h/t Sarah Stern): Sarah sent me this piece by Bret Stephens in the Wall Street Journal, which examines the differences in which the world treats the Russian-Chechen and the Israeli-Palestinian conflicts. While most supporters of Israel have long recognized the double standard to which the Jewish state is held, Stephens runs the numbers and...
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