The United States and Iran are enmeshed in a no-war, no-peace deadlock that could easily escalate into an all-out war again should there be no major diplomatic breakthrough. The war that the United States and Israel initiated against Iran on February 28 has mutated into a bruising war of attrition, which has oscillated between periods […]
Nazi villains were a staple of early 1940s Hollywood movies, especially after the United States’ entry into World War II following Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor. Above Suspicion, a 122-minute film released by MGM in 1943 and broadcast on the Turner Classic Movie channel recently, was model of this fairly short-lived phenomenon, which included movies […]
July is a month to remember in the annals of Iranian-inspired terrorism against Jews. On July 18, 1994, a massive explosion tore through the Jewish community center in Buenos Aires, killing 84 people and wounding more than 300, in the deadliest antisemitic incident since the Holocaust. Israel and Argentina blamed Iran and its proxy, Hezbollah, […]
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was the face of the Islamic Republic of Iran for eight years. As Iran’s president from 2005 to 2013, he brutally suppressed domestic protests, constantly called for Israel’s destruction, and perversely denied the Holocaust. He played a central role in the formation of the Axis of Resistance, the regional alliance arrayed against Israel, […]
A prominent Jewish American has dispensed a message of tough love to Israel. It is worth listening to. Rahm Emanuel was in Israel earlier this month to deliver a sober and blunt speech at Tel Aviv University about the future of Israel’s relationship with its greatest ally, the United States. “I flew here from Chicago […]
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney was recently in Jeddah to drum up business with Saudi Arabia, a wealthy and influential Arab state. He was the first leader from Canada to visit this oil-rich Arab nation in 26 years. While there, he met Saudi leader Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and discussed plans to deepen cooperation […]
Graham Platner, the Democratic nominee who was contesting the U.S. Senate race in Maine, was a problematic candidate from the very start, yet his blatant shortcomings were willfully dismissed or ignored by the powers that be in his party. As the news site Axios noted in a prescient observation, he was “a walking time bomb.” […]
The latest tit-for-tat skirmishes between the United States and Iran, plus the bitter war of words these battles have set off, point to one inescapable conclusion. The memorandum of understanding these longtime adversaries signed last month is falling apart and may crumble altogether. As the five-day state funeral of Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei […]
The lengthy funeral of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s former supreme leader, has been an elaborate and extended spectacle projecting strength, national unity, stability, continuity and vengeance after two successive wars with the United States and Israel within a year. Iran’s uncompromising message is mainly directed at the U.S., whose military bases in the region it […]
Yad Vashem, the Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem, has recognized 2,673 Ukrainians as Righteous Among the Nations, an honor conferred on non-Jews who risked their lives to save Jews. Nataliia Mariichyn’s great grandparents, Grigoriy and Mariya Palivoda, were among the recipients. They saved Eliezer (Leizer) Buchwald, his sister Shloma and their mother, Berta Leiblich. Their story […]