Daily Archives: December 1, 2020
Archival collection of Hannah Senesh comes to National Library of Israel
In 1944, the Jewish, Hungarian-born paratrooper Hannah Senesh (Szenes) was parachuted into occupied Europe by the British in a desperate attempt to save Hungarian Jews from the Nazi death camps. Captured, tortured and executed...
Graphic Design Student Who Decorated Her Project with a Swastika to be Retrained at...
In a course on the subject “Computer-aided Design,” at the Architecture Faculty of Buenos Aires University, a student presented her project as a vacuum cleaner in the shape of a war cannon with a swastika.
Her colleagues...
AMERICAS“Living On Mountains”: Antecedents of a Dignified and Secure World Order
“One must become accustomed to living on mountains, to seeing the wretched ephemeral chatter of politics and national egotism beneath one.”-Friedrich Nietzsche, Zarathustra
During the dissembling Trump Era, perhaps more than ever before, Americans have had...
NPT commitments ‘meaningless’ if scientists, facilities unsafe, says senior IRGC commander
Former Iranian defense minister Brig. Gen. Ahmad Vahidi said on Saturday that Iran’s commitment to the Non-Proliferation Treaty’s Additional Protocol is “meaningless” if its scientists and nuclear installations are not safe.
“If we decide to...
Tlaib retweets, then undoes, ‘from the river to the sea’ post
Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) retweeted a post over the weekend that read “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” that was part of an “International Day of Solidarity” picture.
https://twitter.com/Claire_Voltaire/status/1333212176346087429
The legislator undid...
Hamas leader in Gaza tests positive for COVID-19
The Hamas terror group said on Tuesday that its leader in the Gaza Strip, Yahya Sinwar, has tested positive with the coronavirus.
The 58-year-old is “following the advice of health authorities and taking precautionary measures,”...
Hezbollah Brigades: ‘Evil triangle’ of Israel, US, Saudi Arabia behind assassination
Following the assassination of Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh on Nov. 27, the Hezbollah Brigades, an Iraqi Shi’ite militia loyal to Iran, released a statement in which it referred to the assassination as “a...
Israel’s coronavirus czar warns that country faces ‘state of emergency’
Israel’s National Coronavirus Project Coordinator Nachman Ash said on Tuesday that the country’s rising COVID-19 morbidity represents a “state of emergency,” adding that his office would meet to discuss “immediate steps” to be recommended...
Love and War Divide Two Boyhood Best Friends
Secrets of War (Oorlogsgeheimen) is a 2014 film set in the summer of 1943 in Southern Limburg, a Dutch village. The area is occupied by the Germans to mixed reactions from its residents.
In the opening scene,...
Bahraini trade delegation to arrive in Israel for three-day visit
A first-of-its-kind Bahraini business and trade delegation was expected to arrive in Israel on Tuesday in yet another sign of warming relations between the two countries that was officially declared as part of the...