Heed the lessons of Natan Sharansky
Natan Sharansky is exiting the center stage of Jewish life. The 70-year-old former Soviet dissident and prisoner of Zion turned author, Israeli politician and, for the last eight years, the head of the Jewish...
The ‘peace plan’ is coming
A new Middle East “peace plan” is gestating and, according to the Trump administration itself, nearly ready to hatch.
It is easy to be cynical. Peace plans have been produced by various administrations and yet,...
Iran protests raise hopes of regime collapse as sanctions set to go in effect
The Iranian regime appears to be in a panic as the Trump administration tightens the screws on the country’s economy with the United States telling countries to stop all oil imports from Iran starting...
What Germans understand about BDS
Who ever thought Germans would have a better grasp of the need to stand up against anti-Semitism than the Scots?
It’s been more than seven decades since the end of World War II, but the...
Mass Society, Presidential Emptiness And America’s “Soul”
“We are the hollow men,
We are the stuffed men”
T S Eliot, The Hollow Men (1925)
Once upon a time, long before T.S. Eliot’s oft-quoted poetic metaphor, Ralph Waldo Emerson called upon Americans to embrace “plain living...
Iranian regime dealing with first signs of economic collapse
Introduction
While U.S. President Donald Trump has yet to take active measures against Iran, the Iranian regime is already showing signs of economic and political collapse, although throughout the 40 years of its existence it...
A judicial litmus test
Americans are more divided today than they have been at any time in living memory. The fault lines in society generally have to do with opinions about U.S. President Donald Trump and his character,...
![By Molly Adams from USA (May Day - Workers Strike 2017) [CC BY 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons](https://jewishwebsite.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/1280px-May_Day_-_Workers_Strike_2017_35598353875-324x235.jpg "Bravo, Americans, for standing up for the children!")
Bravo, Americans, for standing up for the children!
The recent furore over Donald Trump’s policy of separating migrant children from their parents and placing them in enclosures that have been likened to cages, seems in the end to have brought out the...
Another step to the left for Democrats
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez isn’t on her way to Congress because of her hostility to the State of Israel. The upset victory of a Democratic Socialist over one of the highest ranking Democrats in Congress, as...
Post-election Turkey: The birth of an Islamist-nationalist alliance
Four decades after they emerged as marginal parties in the 1970s, Turkey’s militant Islamists and ultranationalists won a combined 53.6% of the national vote and 57% of parliamentary seats. President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has said...