Monthly Archives: January 2016

Waiting for Capote

Posted on January 30, 2016 by Victor Rosenthal

The right-wing Im Tirtzu group was hit by a storm of criticism, after it called a large group of Israeli authors, actors and other artists ‘moles’ or ‘foreign agents’ in Israeli culture, because of their leftist views (the Hebrew word … Continue reading →

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The coming US election as seen by an American-Israeli

Posted on January 29, 2016 by Victor Rosenthal

Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn’t mean politics won’t take an interest in you.—Pericles (Athens, c. 430 BCE) America hasn’t been invaded since 1812, and after the Civil War (which only peripherally involved other nations), … Continue reading →

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The PLO can’t be fixed

Posted on January 24, 2016 by Victor Rosenthal

It has been revealed that a secret deal kept Switzerland free of PLO terrorism: According to the author, Swiss journalist Marcel Gyr, Switzerland was in turmoil after a spate of Palestinian terror attacks, including the February 1970 bombing of a … Continue reading →

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A culture of hate and its ‘Terror Children’

Posted on January 22, 2016 by Victor Rosenthal

Israelis are used to waking up to news reports of horrific murders, sometimes mass murders, but the slaughter of 38-year old Dafna Meir, in her own home and in front of her children by a teenage Arab terrorist has been … Continue reading →

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For Dafna

Posted on January 19, 2016 by Victor Rosenthal

The murderer of Dafna Meir, a mother of 6 children has been arrested. He is a Palestinian Arab variously reported to be 15 or 16 years old, from the nearby village of Beit Amra. Arrested, unfortunately – take note, Margot … Continue reading →

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Humiliation Day

Posted on January 18, 2016 by Victor Rosenthal

Saturday was ‘Implementation Day’ for the Iranian nuclear deal. Someone referred to it as ‘humiliation day’ for America, because the humiliating surrender in the diplomatic battle to keep Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons was accompanied by the humiliation of American … Continue reading →

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Defending Israel against the EU’s ‘soft weapon’

Posted on January 15, 2016 by Victor Rosenthal

When Israel built its security barrier back in 2003, the Palestinian Arabs and their supporters squealed like pigs. Despite numerous changes to its path to accommodate Arab complaints, some ordered by Israel’s Supreme Court, it became a cause célèbre for … Continue reading →

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Anti-Israel NGOs — not transparency — are the real threat to democracy

Posted on January 11, 2016 by Victor Rosenthal

Last night a suspicious fire occurred at the offices of B’Tselem, an Israeli NGO concerned with “human rights in the occupied territories” (in other words, yet another foreign-funded operation working to delegitimize the Jewish state and sabotage its ability to … Continue reading →

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