How America is helping Iran get a nuclear arsenal
As Iran reportedly reaches the brink of obtaining enough fissile material for a nuclear weapon, the Biden administration is now astoundingly colluding with this lethal rogue state against the interests of Israel and America’s...
Folly Redux?: The Deeper Meanings of a Second Trump Presidency
Credo quia absurdum. “I believe because it is absurd.”
-Tertullian
Macrocosm and Microcosm
One thing is certain. If Donald J. Trump should decide to run again, various condemnations and justifications would instantly spring forth from absolutely every...
The Different Kinds Of Happiness
Happiness is one of those words that has many nuanced sub-meanings. Joyous or joyful are sub-categories that refer to a more intense active expression of generalized positive feelings for a defined discrete period of...
The ‘genocide Olympics’ gives the lie to human-rights rhetoric
On his Facebook page last week, Elisha Wiesel—the son of the late Holocaust survivor and Nobel Prize laureate Elie Wiesel—had a poignant accusation for the world, and especially for those who revered the lessons his father...
Possible worlds
Since the time of Cain and Abel, we have been amazed at how different the personalities of brothers can be. In more recent times, the dilemma has been posed as follows: How is the...
Column: Whoopi’s Petty Distinctions
Silly sideshows dominate much of the news on Israel and other Jewish and general issues. So much so that keeping up with them amounts to “posing problems that would cross a rabbi’s eyes,” to...
Preventing Nuclear War in the Middle East: Science, System and “Vision”
“A scientist, whether theorist or experimenter, puts forward statements, or systems of statements, and tests them step by step.”-Karl R. Popper -The Logic of Scientific Discovery (1959)
For the moment, informed global concerns about nuclear war avoidance...
A ‘Palestine-firster’ scandal comes to the US Congress
During Barack Obama’s presidency, when diplomatic tensions between Israel and the United States sank to rarely seen lows, the term “Israel-Firster” was concocted by the Jewish state’s adversaries as a means of demeaning its...
Moving backwards
U.S. Ambassador Thomas Nides spoke before the conference of the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) in Israel this week. He was charming and reassuring, and stressed the bipartisan nature of American government support...
Why haven’t more Israelis heard of Mordechai Ben-Porat?
“On 20 November 1949, I was on my way to Basra. Dressed in Bedouin robes, I crossed the Shatt-El-Arab waterway on a small boat with an outboard motor, accompanied by the smuggler Haj Aziz...