Donald Trump's speech before the brutalist-style Warsaw Uprising (1944) memorial (take a look at the dark, gargantuan Nazi overshadowing Trump in the accompanying picture--this is an irony the planners of the speech seemed not to account for) in the run-up to the G-20 meeting this week, was a horror show. Commentators have compared it to his "American … [Read more...]
Israel’s Final Solution to the ‘Palestine Problem’
One of the ruling Bayit Yehudi's leading firebrands is Orthodox settler, MK Bezalel Smotrich. He has a long and sordid history inciting hatred of almost every Israeli minority, Jewish or Palestinian. He's hosted a "Beast Day" featuring live animals on Gay Pride Day. He called himself a "proud homophobe." He rejects the term "Jewish terrorism," and the … [Read more...]
History of Israeli Far-Right Collusion with Both Hitler and Stalin
It's fairly well-known that both Yishuv political movements, the far-right and socialist left, collaborated (or proposed collaborating) with the Nazis when it appeared they could win WWII. In the 1930s, Chaim Arlosoroff, on behalf of Ben Gurion's Mapai, negotiated the Haavara Agreement with the Nazis. The property and valuables of Jews who fled Nazi … [Read more...]
Lieberman Compares Iran to Nazis, Iran Deal to Munich Pact…Again
Over the past few days, a tempest has been brewing after Pres. Obama defended his Iran nuclear agreement by correctly noting that the entire Israeli defense and intelligence leadership acknowledges that it has improved Israeli and world security. This apparently angered defense minister Avigdor Lieberman, who couldn't leave well enough alone. As a result … [Read more...]