Monthly Archives: September 2020

What American Jews Can Learn from AOC

Posted on September 27, 2020 by Victor Rosenthal

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez may not be the sharpest thorn in the bush, but she has taught an important lesson for American Jews. Whether they learned it is doubtful. The congresswoman, who once admitted that she was “not an expert on the … Continue reading →

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Israel’s Corona Disaster

Posted on September 24, 2020 by Victor Rosenthal

This morning (Wednesday) Israel’s Health Ministry announced that in the past 24 hours there were 6,861 new cases of Covid-19 detected in 59,169 tests, an 11.5% positive ratio. This ratio has been steadily increasing, which is an indication of the … Continue reading →

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For Postmodernism, Identity Overrides Reason

Posted on September 20, 2020 by Victor Rosenthal

Many years ago, during the modern era (as opposed to the “postmodern” one we live in today), I had a job that included teaching elementary logic. Probably the most important topic was one about informal fallacies, those evilly persuasive tricks … Continue reading →

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What’s Not in the Normalization Agreements

Posted on September 17, 2020 by Victor Rosenthal

The most interesting thing about the normalization agreements that Israel signed with the UAE and Bahrain is not what is in the written agreements, which are sparse on detail. It is not even the speculation about the unpublicized understandings about … Continue reading →

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A Just Society – or Changing the Color of the Oppressors?

Posted on September 13, 2020 by Victor Rosenthal

There is no greater offense to human rights, short of murder, than slavery. It’s hard to imagine a more viciously evil enterprise than the slave trade to the Americas. The treatment of those Africans who survived the crossing to the … Continue reading →

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Another Soft Enemy

Posted on September 10, 2020 by Victor Rosenthal

Not long ago I wrote about one of Israel’s “soft enemies,” who choose to fight the Jewish state with money rather than bullets and explosives: the European Union. Indeed, the European Union has just demonstrated its hostility by threatening to … Continue reading →

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Social Media and Radical Freedom of Speech

Posted on September 6, 2020 by Victor Rosenthal

The Internet and its functionalities, like email and the World Wide Web, were created by academic researchers. Although the military paid for a lot of it, there was little attention paid to security and none at all to control of … Continue reading →

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Normalization Could Create a Real “New Middle East”

Posted on September 3, 2020 by Victor Rosenthal

The main thing you need to know about the normalization of relations between Israel and the United Arab Emirates is that Iran, Turkey, the Palestinian Authority, Hamas, IfNotNow, Jewish Voice for Peace, and other enemies of the Jewish state oppose … Continue reading →

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