In light of the events in Charlottesville I ask, paraphrasing the words of the immortal Coen Brothers: "O Bibi, Where Are Thou?" After France and its Jewish community suffered Islamist terror attacks, you were a veritable Lion of Judah. You hopped the first flight to Paris to stand courageously with your Diaspora brothers and sisters in … [Read more...]
Charlottesville Officials Permitted Mass Pogrom, One Dead, Scores Injured
UPDATE: Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who himself is a former white supremacist, announces a federal civil rights investigation of the Charlottesville massacre. In the meantime, Richard Spencer announces he will return to finish the work he started in Charlottesville. Not happy with killing only one person, he wants to return and kill some … [Read more...]
Bibi: “This is the End, My Friend”
The ominous strains of The Doors, The End, should be playing through the halls of the prime minister's office in Jerusalem. He is beset by four concurrent criminal investigations, any one of which could bring him down, should it result in an indictment. The event that marked the beginning of the end of Netanyahu's nearly forty-year political career was … [Read more...]
Al Aqsa Crisis: Despite Backroom Deals, Palestinians Continue to Resist
Just when Israelis and Jordanians were taking a deep breath at the bullet they both dodged, thinking they'd resolved the al Aqsa crisis, the common Palestinian folk rose up and said: "Not so fast." The fixers in Amman and Jerusalem thought they'd brokered a deal that gave both sides something. But they left out a key factor necessary to make the deal … [Read more...]