Category Archives: Iran

The US changes course

Posted on February 27, 2015 by Victor Rosenthal

This article was cross-posted to the Elder of Ziyon blog. Recently, I attended a panel discussion including the representatives of several of the political parties competing in our upcoming election. I found it quite interesting that the question of Iran … Continue reading →

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Terrorism in Europe, weakness in America

Posted on February 16, 2015 by Victor Rosenthal

PM Netanyahu ruffled some feathers in the Jewish community of Denmark when he invited them to “come home” to Israel. “We appreciate the invitation, but we are Danish citizens, this is our country,” Dan Rosenberg Asmussen, chairman of the Jewish … Continue reading →

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Obama sinks to new low in anti-Netanyahu campaign

Posted on February 8, 2015 by Victor Rosenthal

Relations between blacks and Jews in the US have been poor since 1968, when the New York teachers strike pitted the overwhelmingly Jewish United Federation of Teachers against a black community-controlled school board. The traditional flirtation of the black community … Continue reading →

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Why Netanyahu will go to America

Posted on February 6, 2015 by Victor Rosenthal

As the discussion of PM Netanyahu’s upcoming visit to the US to speak before Congress heats up on both sides of the world, I received an email from an Israeli correspondent. In part, he wrote, …one could ask why is … Continue reading →

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The uppity Jew card

Posted on February 2, 2015 by Victor Rosenthal

If we needed any further evidence that President Obama has it in for PM Netanyahu — in a very special way, with a bitterness that he doesn’t express toward Vladimir Putin or Ali Khamenei — his administration’s behavior in connection … Continue reading →

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How to deal with irrationality and chaos — Part II

Posted on October 19, 2014 by Victor Rosenthal

In my last post, I gave several examples of irrational or even crazy international behavior that is dangerous for Israel. A country or other entity behaves irrationally when it acts in ways that are inconsistent with reality, do not serve … Continue reading →

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How to deal with irrationality and chaos — Part I

Posted on October 17, 2014 by Victor Rosenthal

Words like ‘insanity’, ‘derangement’ and (more mildly) ‘irrationality’ are used more and more these days in discourse about the Middle East. In no particular order: The insane hatred for Israel in Europe. David P. Goldman explains the European derangement (his … Continue reading →

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Was the Parchin explosion an Israeli air strike?

Posted on October 9, 2014 by Victor Rosenthal

Here you can see before/after satellite photos of the Iranian Parchin nuclear development facility which recently was the location of a huge explosion in which at least two workers were killed. Parchin is the place where the Iranians are suspected … Continue reading →

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