James (‘Jimmy’) Hoffa (1913–1975)
James (“Jimmy”) Hoffa, the famous American labor-union leader whose disappearance in 1975 has been the subject of conspiracy theories and late-night documentaries, grew up in Detroit in the 1920s. At a young age, he...
Syria’s Growing Chemical Weapons Entanglement
The chemical weapons (CW) possessed and employed by Syria since it undertook to completely get rid of them have become an increasingly tangled web over the past year. This has many ramifications, particularly in...
‘Mickey’ Marcus (1901–1948)
Born to Jewish immigrants from Romania in 1901, David Daniel “Mickey” Marcus grew up on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. He studied at West Point, served as an assistant U.S. attorney and led...
“In PRAISE Of FOLLY”: The Trump Presidency In Wider Cultural Context
In 1509, Desiderius Erasmus, the famed Renaissance humanist, published In Praise of Folly. Here, the narrator, dressed as a court jester, argues that she is humankind’s greatest benefactor. Nursed, acknowledges Folly, by Drunkenness and...
The Endurance That Comes With Being Part-Robot
In my last article, I discussed the creation of a robot athlete whose skills within certain athletic processes in a game were superior to those of humans. I am talking about the basketbot named...
Why Arab writers say Israel is superior to Arab countries
In recent months, several Arab writers have published articles in the Arab press discussing why Israel is superior to the weaker Arab states.
The reasons, they said, lie in Israel’s strong and effective judicial system...
WATCH: Friday sermon by Gaza cleric: The ‘Return March’ goes hand in hand with...
In a Friday sermon, Gaza cleric Sheikh Musa Abu Jleidan said that the “Great Return March” is a “form of Jihad” that “does not eliminate the need for Jihad by the sword, by missiles,...
Erdogan vs. the free press
The takeover of Turkey’s largest independent media group by an Erdoğan crony was not unexpected, given the troubles and systematic state harassment suffered by the Dogan Media Company in the past decade.
Now the opposition...
International Law and WMD Attacks on Israel
In the years ahead, Israel could face the growing prospect of WMD terrorism, i.e., attacks involving chemical, biological, or even nuclear weapons. In this context, it is vital that Israeli officials do their utmost...
‘Anti-Zionist and Jew:’ Behind Jeremy Corbyn’s apology
“I refuse to characterize as opinion,” wrote Jean-Paul Sartre in Anti-Semite and Jew, “a doctrine that is aimed directly at particular persons and that seeks to suppress their rights or to exterminate them.”
This was the...