Israel is fighting in Gaza for its very existence while the world unknowingly teeters on the edge of oblivion. Today’s world lacks moral certainty, propelling itself into a world without moral limits or order, stumbling from one crisis to another without considering the consequences on their fragile societies. They neither comprehend nor care that their […]
Continue readingMunich, September 5-6, 1972, witnessed the deaths of eleven Israeli athletes at the hands of Arab terrorists during the Munich Olympics. Gaza, October 7, 2023, saw some one thousand four hundred Jews slaughtered with the utmost cruelty. In the case of Munich, then Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir instructed Mossad to put together an assassination […]
Continue readingThis Shabbat, we read Parsha Vayishlach, where the Torah is very specific in teaching us how to respond to the murderers, rapists and kidnappers of October 7. Some 3,500 years ago, a Jewess was raped by the Midianite Shechem, son of Chamor. The Jewish reaction was swift and total. The girl in question was Dinah, […]
Continue readingIn the service of geopolitical objectives; Iran is set to move its attention away from Israel’s northern border for the time being to that of Saudi Arabia. Blind siding Americas Middle East strategy. While the Iran Saudi theater has been quietly bubblying away it is about to boil over into a conflict both religious and […]
Continue readingIt is a common saying that History repeats itself, but it is not so common to pursue its similarities far enough to arrive at an estimate of what might be and recognise what has been. We are more ready to view with complacency the repetitions that have occurred, whether to our advantage or not than […]
Continue readingIsrael is facing a leadership crisis at a time of extreme danger to the Jewish State, with an ongoing conflict in Gaza and Iranian proxies testing Israel’s resolve to defend its northern borders while under pressure from worldwide anti-Semitism. On Shabbat, a friend commented on the absence of leaders Israel could call on to lead […]
Continue readingHa Tikva, the Israeli national anthem, reminds all Jews of the hope of returning to the Jewish land after 2,000 years of exile and of having a Jewish state for Jews. The dream, however, does not reflect reality in today’s Israel. Today, Israel suffers from an Arab occupation that threatens the very existence of the […]
Continue readingCan the once vigorous, dynamic, brutal, and expansionist West save itself from committing cultural suicide? Is its “golden age”of morality, art, literature, philosophy, technology, and martial, economic, and political competence a thing of the past? Will it continue to decay as a civilization under the onslaught of a surging Islam now allied with the new […]
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