He was a divisive and corrosive force in French politics, and he will not be missed by the majority of voters. A rabble-rouser who pandered to xenophobia, racism and resentment, Jean-Marie Le Pen was the founder of the National Front and a major figure in the right-wing movement in contemporary France. Le Pen, who died […]
Syria has been a work in progress, a nation to be rebuilt, since the downfall of its autocratic president, Bashar al-Assad, a month ago. It is far too early to ascertain in what political direction Syria is heading, but if the past is any guide, Syrians should not expect their country to become a Jeffersonian […]
Shamsud-Din Bahar Jabbar, the lone wolf terrorist who rammed a pickup truck into street crowds in New Orleans on January 1, killing 14 pedestrians, was radicalized by Islamic State, the jihadist organization which has left a legacy of death and destruction around the globe. An American-born convert to Islam, he had no police record of […]
As 2025 gets under way, Israel appears better off strategically than in the previous two years. Israel was dealt a stunning blow when Hamas terrorists breached its high-tech fortified border fence along the Gaza Strip on October 7, 2023 and proceeded to kill about 1,200 civilians and soldiers, sexually abuse numerous women, and abduct 251 […]
The last movie I saw starring Adrien Brody was The Pianist, which was released in 2002. Directed by Roman Polanski, it related the harrowing story of a Jewish pianist, Wladyslaw Szpilman, who survived the Holocaust in Nazi-occupied Poland. Turning in a brilliant performance as Szpilman, Brody deservedly won the Academy Award for best actor. The […]
Jimmy Carter, the 39th president of the United States, established a consequential record, at least insofar as the Middle East was concerned. Carter, who passed away on December 29 at 100, was the only former president to reach that age. He will be buried in a state funeral on January 9. By any measure, he […]
The roads of southern Israel were death traps for motorists on October 7, 2023, when roughly 1,200 Israelis and foreigners were murdered by hordes of Hamas and Islamic Jihad terrorists who had invaded the country. In an unprecedented rampage that summoned up dark and unspeakable memories of the Holocaust, heavily-armed gunmen in pickup trucks and […]
For reasons that have yet to be explained, a Canadian government agency has rebuffed a request by B’nai Brith Canada and its supporters to release a list of suspected Nazi war criminals who were permitted to settle in Canada following World War II. Among them were Germans who served in the German army and Ukrainians […]
They were burdened with the most gut-wrenching, repulsive job a Jewish inmate in the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp in Poland could possibly be assigned. Their gruesome task was to escort Jewish deportees into the gas chambers, remove their lifeless bodies, salvage valuables, transport the corpses to the crematoria, and destroy all evidence of their murders. Known […]
Hamas, in a long-established and self-defeating practice, has unconscionably misused schools in the Gaza Strip as command centers, weapons depots and hiding places. This has forced Israel to bomb scores of schools, resulting in the tragic deaths of Palestinian civilians who have sheltered there during the still ongoing Israel-Hamas war. In one of its most […]