Author Archives: Victor Rosenthal

Israel’s Information War

Posted on October 15, 2020 by Victor Rosenthal

The “Information War” is the struggle to attack or defend the image of the State of Israel in the consciousness of the world. It is truly a world war, but the two main active fronts today are the Arabic-speaking world, … Continue reading →

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Closing Israel’s Political Circus

Posted on October 11, 2020 by Victor Rosenthal

Today the State of Israel is squeezed between a public health emergency and political paralysis. All we’re missing is a security crisis. We’d better hope we don’t get one. In the past few days the number of new Coronavirus cases … Continue reading →

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Social Media and the Cognitive War Against Israel

Posted on October 8, 2020 by Victor Rosenthal

Time to take a break from giving and receiving abuse on Twitter and do some work. Last night we watched the Netflix documentary “The Social Dilemma.” It’s about the big tech companies and how their systems manipulate us into giving … Continue reading →

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Unfinished Business

Posted on October 4, 2020 by Victor Rosenthal

Who remembers Jonathan Pollard? He spied on the US for Israel. Despite insinuations to the contrary, he did not cause the exposure and murder of American agents in Russia (spy Aldrich Ames, now serving a life sentence, cast suspicion on … Continue reading →

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Trump, Biden, Bibi, and Iran

Posted on October 1, 2020 by Victor Rosenthal

I got up a few minutes before 0400 this morning to watch the American presidential debate. Things have changed a great deal since the previous campaign, because I can’t recall anything even close in verbal viciousness from the candidates themselves. … Continue reading →

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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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