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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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?! […]
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 […]
Wednesday, November 20th 2024
Erdogan Has Become the Enemy, and It’s Time to Deal with Him: Nadav Shragai, Israel Hayom, Nov. 14, 2024 Turkish Foreign Minister Declares He Is ‘In a War’ With Israel: Levent Kenez, Nordic Monitor, Nov. 19, 2024 Turkey Must Earn Trump’s Reconciliation: Sinan Ciddi, Washington Examiner, Nov. 16, 2024 Is Turkey’s Military the World’s Latest Paper Tiger?: Michael […]
Levent Kenez Nordic Monitor, Nov. 19, 2024 “I am in a war. I do not have the luxury of showing my feelings.” Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan, during a November 15 interview broadcast on A Haber, a government-aligned television channel run by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s family, stated that he is “in a war” and […]
Nadav Shragai Israel Hayom, Nov. 14, 2024 “Erdogan’s congratulations to President-elect Donald Trump on his victory should remind the American president of Turkey’s deceptive overtures to Israel just two years ago.” Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan‘s support for Hamas and hostility toward Israel have reached a critical point, with Turkey providing sanctuary to Hamas operatives while […]
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