An unflinching view from a place called Israel
When I opened my email this morning, I saw a message from AJ, marked important. Knowing the responsibilities of this particular relative, I opened it with a bit of trepidation. It was with great relief that I realized that the message was not about certain nutcases being on the rampage – a rampage that would have been nothing that Thorazine … Read more
Most people do not know that Hitler’s Germany could not have developed into a threat without outside help. Bankers and investors lined up to give loans and make investments. Even while Hitler was demonstrating his evil intentions, they loaned and invested. Without that support, Hitler would have been just one more ineffectual crackpot. This century’s … Read more
Carol just sent me an email with an interesting article written by Paul Marek, who writes a blog here: http://cjunk.blogspot.com/ Anyway, the article that is interesting is this one: http://cjunk.blogspot.com/2006/02/why-peaceful-majority-is-irrelevant.html It’s a bit more than a year old, but absolutely timeless. I’ll give you a couple paragraphs from his blog entry, and ask you to … Read more
In my series on Bernard Lewis’ interview with The Jerusalem Post, I want to start with two quotes from the article: For President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s Iran, he noted dryly, the notion of mutual assured destruction, of certain devastation so immense as to have kept the United States and the Soviet Union from firing their missiles at … Read more
At the ripe old age of 90, Barnard Lewis has seen a lot, and the part of the ‘lot’ that we are interested in is Iran. True, he’s controversial, and he’s stuck his foot in a lot smelly topics and come away with a bad smell himself… But, his insight is incredible. So many of his predictions have … Read more