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Monday, November 25th 2024

Vivian Bercovici National Post, Nov. 25, 2024 “Canada is an outlier among democracies.” In May, 2024, International Criminal Court Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan, K.C., abruptly cancelled a planned trip to Israel. Khan and ICC staff were meant to meet with Israeli officials in government, the military and NGO sectors. Instead, on the same day he cancelled, Khan […]

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Monday, November 25th 2024

Citation de la semaine:  « C’est comparable à un procès Dreyfus d’aujourd’hui qui se terminera de la même façon » Benyamin Netanyahu, Premier ministre d’Israël ***                                 Table des Matières   «Un procès Dreyfus d’aujourd’hui» : Netanyahou s’indigne du mandat d’arrêt de […]

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Friday, November 22nd 2024

Unfulfilled Promise:  Adam Gregerman, Tablet, Nov. 19, 2024 The Pope´s Genocide Canard:  Julian Schvindlerman, Times of Israel, Nov. 19, 2024 Pope Francis Turns on Israel: Editorial Board, WSJ, Nov. 19, 2024 Pope Francis and The Junta: In Search of What Really Happened in Argentina:  Doug Saunders, The Globe and Mail, Mar. 16, 2013 *** SHABBAT READING   Rebecca: A Woman […]

Analysis

Friday, November 22nd 2024 / Friday, November 22nd 2024

Editorial Board WSJ, Nov. 19, 2024 “The complicated papal history with the Nazis during World War II should give the Vatican reason to be careful making anti-Israel pronouncements.” Pope Francis has written a new book to mark the 2025 jubilee. In an excerpt from “Hope Never Disappoints” that has generated headlines, he proposes a “careful investigation” […]

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Friday, November 22nd 2024

*** Adam Gregerman Tablet, Nov. 19, 2024 “Francis, with rare exceptions, ignores or minimizes the nature of the threats faced by Israel. Despite the avowed goals of Israel’s enemies, he never acknowledges this as distinctly genocidal in intent.”   Pope Francis has called for an investigation to determine if Israel’s operation in Gaza constitutes genocide, according to […]

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Friday, November 22nd 2024

Julian Schvindlerman Times of Israel, Nov. 19, 2024 “It is worth noting that the Italian version of this speech published at the Vatican website contained the word “terrorist” just before “attack,” whereas the English version omitted it. The Pope chose not to name Hamas explicitly, but stated “my condemnation of this act.””   “According to […]

Analysis

Friday, November 22nd 2024

Doug Saunders The Globe and Mail, Mar. 16, 2013 “Though Father Bergoglio was known to care for the poor, he had always opposed these more radical movements. But, like a large number of colleagues, he was silent on the military junta.”   In Rome, he has made his start as the mild-mannered, bus-riding, collegial pontiff […]

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Thursday, November 21st 2024

  FIGHTING LIES  WATCH:  Lawyer DESTROYS Woke Myths About Israel – Natasha Hausdorff:  Andrew Gold, Heretics, YouTube, Nov. 11, 2024 *** Why Trump’s Victory Is Cathartic for Millions of Us:  Michael Shellenberger, Real Clear Politics, Nov. 7, 2024 The Policing of Wrongspeak:  Melanie Phillips, Substack, Nov. 20, 2024 Albert Murray vs. the Lachrymose Conception of Afro-American History:  Warren […]

Analysis

Thursday, November 21st 2024

Michael Shellenberger Real Clear Politics, Nov. 7, 2024   “… if anybody really wants to understand why so many of us—even if we have our criticisms of Trump—feel relief and vindication at his victory, they need to consider that it has more to do with the repudiation of totalitarianism than with Trump as a person […]

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Thursday, November 21st 2024

Warren Zev Harvey The Omni-American Review, Vol. 1, 2024, no date “It is time to break with the lachrymose theory of [Jewish] woe, and to adopt a view more in accord with historic truth.”  He forcefully rejected as untrue the dominant view among scholars which saw Jewish history as nothing but a bleak succession of […]

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Thursday, November 21st 2024

Melanie Phillips Substack, Nov. 20, 2024   “… it was hatred of Jews; and hatred of Jews seems to be a non-hate thing altogether.”   According to The Times (UK £), doctors, vicars, social workers and other professionals have been investigated by the police for “non-crime hate incidents”. Oh — so too have nine year-olds. Eh? Say again?! […]

Analysis

Thursday, November 21st 2024

Gary Saul Morson Commentary, July/Aug. 2024   “Today we can ask: Why do so many cheer, or at least not object, when they witness mobs embracing the bloodthirsty and sadistic Hamas? Perhaps for the same reasons that young, pre-revolutionary Russians once celebrated terrorists who murdered innocent citizens?” Western intellectuals expected that novelist Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, once […]