Author Archives: Victor Rosenthal

The leading indicators don’t look good for America

Posted on February 11, 2016 by Victor Rosenthal

In economics, a ‘leading indicator’ is something that can be used to predict the future behavior of a market or even a national economy. For example, if the number of building permits issued per month increases, then one might expect … Continue reading →

Posted in Academia, American politics | 4 Comments

Who is guilty of stupidity?

Posted on February 7, 2016 by Victor Rosenthal

The three members of Israel’s Knesset – Jamal Zahalka, Haneen Zoabi and Basel Ghattas – who met recently with the families of three terrorist murderers, were condemned from all sides of Israel’s political spectrum. In addition to harsh criticism from … Continue reading →

Posted in Israeli Arabs, Israeli Politics | 2 Comments

Hillary’s advisers from Hell

Posted on February 5, 2016 by Victor Rosenthal

So it turns out that the advice Hillary Clinton gets from her advisers regarding Israel is overwhelmingly anti-Israel: …the stream of anti-Israel advice received by Hillary was much more comprehensive than that which came from just [Sidney Blumenthal]. In the … Continue reading →

Posted in American politics | 6 Comments

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 →

Posted in Israel and Palestinian Arabs, Israeli Society | 4 Comments

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 →

Posted in American politics | 3 Comments

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 →

Posted in Israel and Palestinian Arabs | 2 Comments

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 →

Posted in Israel and Palestinian Arabs, Terrorism | 2 Comments