It took Germany six decades to come to terms with the harsh treatment that the Nazi regime meted out to German army deserters during World War II. Upwards of 22,000 German soldiers were executed after Wehrmacht military courts pronounced them guilty of desertion and “undermining the military spirit.” Whether this is an accurate figure is […]
Syria was thrust into a new era toward the end of December in 2024 with the fall of President Bashar al-Assad’s secular Baathist regime and his replacement by an Islamist political order led by President Ahmed al-Sharaa, a former jihadist who fought against U.S. forces in Iraq. This ideological transformation, one of the most significant […]
The Holocaust has produced a steady stream of movies, and White Bird: A Wonder Story is one of the latest ones. Based on a graphic novel and directed by Marc Forster, it is now streaming on the Netflix platform. Set mainly in Vichy France, with occasional scenes unfolding in contemporary New York City, this drama […]
Much to Canada’s disappointment and disillusionment, Palestine Authority President Mahmoud Abbas recently postponed legislative and presidential elections, which were to be held on November 28 and early next year. Abbas, who has been the president of the PA since 2005, announced that elections in the West Bank, Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem will take place […]
The Houthis of Yemen are on the offensive. In the past few weeks, they have struck critical infrastructure, airports, oil facilities and military installations in Saudi Arabia. Vowing a decisive response, the Saudis have retaliated, striking Houthi bases, an airport, and oil and fuel storage sites. The upsurge in fighting is nothing new. Yemen has […]
The war in Ukraine seems interminable. It erupted in February 2022 with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which Russian President Vladimir Putin described as a “special military operation.” It has since dragged on relentlessly, killing roughly 400,000 to 450,000 Russian soldiers and 125,000 to 150,000 Ukrainian troops and wounding more than two million soldiers on both […]
Israel’s furious reaction to news that Navi Pillay had won the Nobel Peace Prize is perfectly understandable. Pillay, a South African jurist and an ad hoc judge at the International Court of Justice, presided over a United Nations commission that accused Israel of genocide in the Gaza Strip during its two-year war with Hamas from […]
The Green Party in Britain, led by a Jewish ideologue named Zack Polanski, adopted a profoundly anti-Israel resolution at its annual conference in Brighton on October 4, three days before the third anniversary of Hamas’ attack in Israel. The stark resolution minces no words. It denies Israel’s right to exist as a sovereign Jewish state. […]
“There are decades where nothing happens, and there are weeks where decades happen,” Vladimir Lenin, the Soviet revolutionary leader, famously said. Lenin’s succinct observation can be applied to October 7, 2023, when Hamas hordes attacked southern Israel in the deadliest day in Israeli history. Hamas’ invasion, which resulted in the deaths of roughly 1,220 Israelis […]
Mark Carney has spoken to or met dozens of world leaders since succeeding Justin Trudeau as Canada’s prime minister last year. Benjamin Netanyahu, the prime minister of Israel, is glaringly absent from that list. Later this month, Carney will reportedly visit Turkey to meet President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, in what would be the first dedicated […]