THINK AGAIN!
Before you throw another statue of Christopher Columbus into Baltimore’s Inner Harbour for his sins real or imagined you may want to throw a statue of Mexico’s last Aztec Emperor Montezuma into lake Texcoco or what’s left of it for his part in mass murder. Ah!!! I already hear the howls of indignation coming from […]
Continue readingREVOLUTIONS DEVOUR THEIR CHILDREN!
Jaques Mallet du Pan (1749-1800) a Royalist sympathiser during the French Revolution coined the phrase ‘Revolutions devour their children.’ Du Pan witnessed the Revolution devour its own as he lived to see Robespierre arch-architect of the Reign of Terror himself being sent to the guillotine by his own co-ideologues. Subsequent revolutions have proven no less […]
Continue readingFREEDOMS GATE!
Absorption and Diaspora Affairs, Minister of Aliyah and integration MK Penina Tamanu has estimated that some 90,000 Jews will immigrate to Israel by the end of 2021 and all this during the Coronavirus outbreak worldwide. The Minister stated “No Jew has the authority to close the gates of Israel. Not in times of distress either,” […]
Continue readingWHEN IS INTERNATIONAL LAW NOT LAW?
Before we tackle International Law’s legitimacy it may be well to consider the domestic legal system as a precursor to our main topic. In the domestic scene, we understand law sets out rules and conditions that govern a countries citizenry. Those laws normally created by a countries legislature, interpreted by its judiciary, and enforced by […]
Continue readingNETANYAHU A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS
He will, he won’t, he will, or maybe he has another plan. If Netanyahu is one thing he is a man for all seasons and so the world waits to see if Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu will implement the US President Donald Trump’s Middle East peace plan and annexe those territories earmarked for a future […]
Continue readingWHEN AMERICA SNEEZES THE REST OF THE WORLD CATCHES A COLD!
As the old financial cliche goes ‘When America sneezes the rest of the world catches a cold.’ The cliche could also address a United States going through a seismic change to its core values and culture. Two things are taking place simultaneously throughout the world and currently can be seen in America in particular. They […]
Continue readingADDITIONAL THOUGHTS ON AMERICAS DILEMMA.
If Black Lives Matter and other like-minded groups were truly motivated by values of compassion and equality regarding the disenfranchised of society and these were their real motives then the world would not be witnessing the destruction and hate they excite in this nihilist generation. Rather we would see the seeds of a kinder more […]
Continue readingBITTER CHOCOLATE Belgium’s Elephant in the room.
We witnessed this week yet again Europe’s insatiable desire to see the Jewish State emasculated and made irrelevant as a sovereign state. As a majority of lawmakers in the lower house of the Belgium parliament passed a non-binding resolution calling on their government to press the EU to draw up a list of countermeasures against […]
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