Analysis
Tuesday, September 30th 2014 / Friday, October 3rd 2014
These are portentous days in the global village. With Gaza, after fifty days of violence, at least temporarily on the back burner, the world’s attention is returning to Iraq. Having fiddled while Mosul burned, Barack Obama’s studied foreign policy passivity was shattered by TV scenes of tens of thousands of Yazidi sect members fleeing advancing […]
Tuesday, September 23rd 2014 / Tuesday, September 23rd 2014
Rosh Hashanah is called the Day of Judgement. Taking the three steps that places him before God with every Amidah prayer, a Jew on Rosh Hashanah takes his/her stand before eternity. Anyone who ever wonders at the order of the universe, at its beauty, at the fact that something exists rather than nothing at all […]
Analysis Communiqués
Tuesday, September 23rd 2014
Comment expliquer le succès de l’État islamique, alias Da’ech, au Moyen-Orient ? Issu de la mouvance d’Al-Qaïda, ce mouvement s’érige en État islamique de l’Irak en 2007, se renforce en Syrie notamment avec l’arrivée de nombreux djihadistes étrangers, pour devenir l’État islamique en Irak et au Levant (EIIL) en 2013. D’autres djihadistes de Syrie ont […]
Friday, September 19th 2014 / Friday, September 19th 2014
Isaïe – Lecture commentée David Bensoussan, Le livre d’Isaïe, lecture commentée, Les Éditions Du Lys ISBN 978-2-922505-24-5 & Les Éditions du Marais, ISBN 978-2-923721-52-1, 278 p., 2014. Comment aborder le livre d’Isaïe ? Ce livre abonde en réprimandes et en prophéties de malheur envers le peuple d’Israël, mais fait aussi état de la prophétie […]
Thursday, September 11th 2014
Before welcoming the emerging state of Kurdistan in northern Iraq, I confess to having opposed its independence in the past. In 1991, after the Gulf War had ended and as Saddam Hussein attacked Iraq’s 6 million Kurds, I made three arguments against American intervention on their behalf, arguments still commonly heard today: (1) independence for […]
Friday, September 5th 2014 / Friday, September 5th 2014
After a shelling outside an United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees school in Rafah where at least 10 more Palestinian civilians were tragically killed, State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki came out with a harsh statement, saying that "the United States is appalled by today's disgraceful shelling” and urging Israel to do more […]
Sunday, August 31st 2014 / Tuesday, September 9th 2014
These are portentous days in the global village. Having fiddled while Mosul burned, Barack Obama’s studied foreign policy passivity was finally shattered by TV scenes of tens of thousands of Yazidi sect members fleeing genocide at the hands of advancing Islamic State murderers marching through their villages towards the key Kurdish town of Irbil. […]
Friday, August 22nd 2014
In just a few weeks the government of Iraq lost control of most of Western Iraq and Northern Iraq. As the Army of Iraqi disintegrated, leaving to the Army of IS all that heavy weaponry (the very best of its kind in the whole world, paid for over two decades by the American taxpayer), mass […]
Wednesday, August 20th 2014
On August 20, 1940 Winston Churchill, Great Britain's new Prime Minister, addressing Parliament as the desperate Battle of Britain continued, with the final victory of the RAF over the Luftwaffe's assault against England still in the balance, said of Fighter Command, "Never on the field of human conflict has so much been owed by so […]
Wednesday, August 20th 2014 / Wednesday, August 20th 2014
When Hamas fires its last rocket and Israel drops its last bomb, the extent of Gaza’s devastation will become clear. An early estimate is that some $5 billion will be necessary to rebuild residences and infrastructure destroyed in the recent conflict. The first step is to take United Nations Relief and Works Agency out of […]
Tuesday, August 19th 2014
La FONATINE IN THE "ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF BRADFORD." British "Liberal Democratic" Member of Parliament for Bradford East, David Ward wants to bomb Israel and David Galloway MP, representing Bradford West, calls for making Bradford an "Israel Free Zone." Representing the wishes of their constituents faithfully, wall to wall, from east to west, in a […]
Monday, August 18th 2014
As is the historical pattern concerning Israel, last week began the growing tsunami of groups – representing the United Nations, The Hague, the European Union, human rights groups, and other non-governmental organizations – announcing their intention to “investigate and review” the military actions under taken by Israel and Hamas during the past five weeks to […]
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