Author Archives: Victor Rosenthal

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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Thoughts at Zero Dark Thirty

Posted on August 31, 2020 by Victor Rosenthal

It’s very, very early, when a person should be asleep, lest melancholy thoughts intrude on the familiar, but totally irrational, optimism that keeps one functioning in the face of the absolute certainty that every human life will sooner or later … Continue reading →

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Israel’s PM and Government Should Resign Today

Posted on August 27, 2020 by Victor Rosenthal

I’m not looking forward to writing this, or to reading the responses that I will surely get from various quarters. But here it is. The Breslov Hasidim venerate Rabbi Nachman of Breslov (1772-1810), a kabbalist, scholar, and founder of a … Continue reading →

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Anti-Zionism isn’t Antisemitism – but it Doesn’t Matter

Posted on August 23, 2020 by Victor Rosenthal

There has rarely been a more pointless dispute than the one over whether anti-Zionism is antisemitism. The answer is easy, and it has two parts: a) no, they are not the same, and b) it doesn’t matter. What is anti-Zionism? … Continue reading →

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