UPDATE II: Rabbi Cytron-Walker did a CBS interview this morning and made clear that the gunman who attacked the synagogue did express anti-Semitic views: “This was somebody who literally thought that Jews control the world,” Cytron-Walker said. “He thought he could come into a synagogue, and we could get on the phone with the ‘Chief Rabbi […]
A Murder in Tehran
The NY Times just published a story detailing the assassination three months earlier of Al Qaeda’s number two leader, Abu Muhammad al-Masri, who had been living secretly in Iran since 2003. The Times report, on which Israeli intelligence reporter Ronen Bergman shared a byline, said al-Masri, who was responsible for the 1998 bombing of U.S. […]
Zionism and the Exploitation of Jewish Catastrophe
Though I have always had sympathy for the general goals of creating a Jewish homeland for victims of persecution and genocide, I am critical of the ways in which Zionism pursued that objective. From the very beginning, even in Herzl’s writings, there are the seeds of ethnic-nationalism, racism and even anti-Semitism, which permeate Israel […]
Sudan Democratic Awakening, Libya Civil War Pose Regional Threat, Invite Saudi Meddling
You can forget that claim you hear from Trump, Netanyahu and MBS that Iran is the greatest sponsor of state terrorism in the world. That award goes to Saudi Arabia hands down. First, it spent and wasted billions building up ISIS and arming it in order to topple the Syrian Alawite regime. It did so, […]
