No permanent allies or enemies: only permanent interests Aware that President Erdogan remains an aggressive Islamist and presumably harbors as much love for Israelis as we do for him, the government was strongly criticized for the unpalatable concessions it granted in order to restore economic and...
Jews and Israel in a threatened, leaderless and delusional world The painful lesson of the Orlando massacre is that no place in the world is immune to fanatical religious extremists willing to kill themselves to achieve heavenly salvation. The Western world is floundering in its pathetic efforts to confront the...
The United Nations sanctifies evil The United Nations is an evil body dominated by Islamic nations and tyrannies. Just last week, on March 24 in Geneva, the U.N. Human Rights Council (UNHRC) concluded its session by passing five resolutions condemning Israel. This followed a series...
A roving ambassador India and Israel are currently experiencing a renaissance in relations, with the Indian Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj having just concluded a visit to Jerusalem. You might be interested in the article recently published in the Jerusalem Post by...
Temper compassion toward Muslim “refugees” with reality Sensitive to the despicable behavior by much of the world which denied haven to European Jews on the eve of the Holocaust, I react instinctively with compassion when I hear about the plight of refugees. I am personally sensitive to this issue,...
Putin’s Russia and Israel: A tenuous relationship For over 30 years, my principal public occupation in the global Jewish arena was to promote the struggle for liberation of Soviet Jewry. This brought me into direct contact with Soviet ministers, officials and apparatchiks, enabling me to appreciate...
Jews, Islamophobia and compassion for refugees It would be inhumane not to react with compassion to the tragic and harrowing depictions of the suffering of refugees. For Jews, more than any others, these images revive horrific memories of their own collective past and the horrors endured by...
Rejecting Despair and Confronting the Challenges I will not add to the flow of articles that have more than adequately analyzed the horrendous long-term consequences of U.S. President Barack Obama’s capitulation to the Iranian ayatollah, who to this day explicitly identifies the destruction of...
Cry for me, Argentina The assassination of Argentine prosecutor Alberto Nisman reflects the endemic corruption of the Kirchner regime and focuses the spotlight on the devil’s pact consummated by President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner in 2013 with Iran, whose leaders...
