It was, as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu succinctly said, “an unbearable tragedy.” On the morning of December 15, three male Israeli hostages held by Hamas since the October 7 massacre — Yotam Haim and Alon Shamriz of kibbutz Kfar Aza and Samar Fouad Talalka of kibbutz Nir Am — were mistakenly killed in a […]
The clock is ticking ever more loudly. Israel is under increasing international and U.S. pressure to scale down its land and air offensive in the Gaza Strip. But the Israeli government insists that it will press on relentlessly until Hamas is categorically defeated, no longer poses a threat to its security, and is removed as […]
Driven out of Germany in 1937, movie director Detlef Sierck settled in Los Angeles, hoping to restart his career in Hollywood. He could have avoided exile had his wife not been Jewish and had he been a fascist devoted to Adolf Hitler’s Nazi regime. In America, he anglicized his name to Douglas Sirk, and within […]
Regrettably, Canada has voted for a United Nations General Assembly resolution calling for a humanitarian ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, where Israel and Hamas have been locked in fierce combat since the end of October. Until yesterday, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau resisted pressure to support an immediate truce, understanding that Israel requires far more […]
Luke Holland’s frank and sober movie, Final Account, deals with two under-documented facets of the Holocaust — the German perpetrators who carried out their crimes and the bystanders who passively watched them happen. Now available on Netflix, it unfolds against the backdrop of mounting antisemitism in Nazi Germany and the eruption of the Kristallnacht pogrom, […]
The war that Israel is currently waging against Hamas in the Gaza Strip has adversely affected its bilateral relations with Arab and Muslim countries and a host of other nations. Since Israel’s invasion of Gaza on October 27, in response to Hamas’ massacre of 1,200 Israelis and foreigners on October 7, two Arab states — […]
Thankfully, the United States has vetoed what could have been a binding and potentially dangerous United Nations resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire to end the two month-old Israel-Hamas war. Sponsored the United Arab Emirates, and supported by the permanent and non-permanent members of the Security Council, yesterday’s motion would have placed enormous international pressure […]
Is it so hard to condemn genocide unequivocally? Shockingly enough, Elizabeth Magill, Claudine Gay and Sally Kornbluth, the presidents of the University of Pennsylvania, Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, had various degrees of difficulty responding to that straightforward question with a simple yes or no answer. Ar a congressional hearing in Washington […]
Ten days after Hamas terrorists stormed southern Israel in a devastatingly effective attack that claimed the lives of 1,200 Israelis and foreigners and shattered its sense of security, Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, warned that Israel’s ferocious military response would cause a violent reaction throughout the Middle East. His prediction has proven to be […]
As Hamas barbarians went on a murderous rampage in southern Israel on October 7, they sexually assaulted and mutilated dozens of women. Contrary to Hamas’ lame denials, we know this to be true. It is not a figment of anyone’s imagination. On December 5, U.S. President Joe Biden condemned the “unimaginable cruelty” of Hamas attackers […]