Collins Dictionary defines “absurd” as something that is so “clearly untrue or unreasonable as to be laughable or ridiculous.” When we have enemies – serious enemies – who have no shame about their wishes, for example, to extinguish the Jewish state which implies murdering those who won’t move away in time, it is time to […]
Hearing what few facts have emerged about the state of the hostages after more than 100 days of the most evil torture, which is beyond our imaginations, who cannot grieve? What will we say on Holocaust Remembrance Day? While the world thinks it appropriate to criminally charge Israel for committing genocide in its defense against […]
“As for legal niceties, the team of august lawyers Israel summoned to the Hague gives a shot in the arm to the ICJ, signaling that Israel concedes the case can be won on legalities. Israel was naïve to rely only on jurists to defeat anti-Semites. One expert on anti-Israel propaganda could be worth a bench […]
“When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.’ ‘The question is,’ said Alice, ‘whether you can make words mean so many different things.’ ‘The question is,’ said Humpty Dumpty, ‘which is to be master — that’s all.” — […]
“It is well for the heart to be naïve and the mind not to be.” — Anatole France Hopefully, naivety will be a casualty of the Hamas War. Children in a playground can be naïve – but our world is no playground. The Oxford Learner’s Dictionary defines “naïve” as “lacking knowledge, experience of life, or good […]
For far too long, Zionism has been stuck in a defensive mode. Come gather ’round people Wherever you roam And admit that the waters Around you have grown And accept it that soon You’ll be drenched to the bone If your time to you is worth savin’ Then you better start swimmin’ or you’ll sink […]
The most basic of all basics is that no Arab terrorist acts alone; he or she is incited to genocidal murder by the entire structure of Palestinian Arab society. “License to Kill” (Bob Dylan) “Now, they take him, and they teach him, and they groom him for life And they set him, on a path […]
T. Belman. I first connected with Howard when he started Mantua Books. Since then I have promoted his books and he has generously donated money in support of Israpundit. I too was born in Canada but in my case to two immigrants from Poland who came to Canada in the twenties. You will recall that the […]
The past cannot alter the present. Holocaust museums have not affected young Islamists who don’t believe it occurred. And the future? The American television series was called “The Twilight Zone” written by and hosted by one Rod Serling. It was a long time ago but I remember it like it was yesterday. The meaning of “Twilight Zone” […]
One played the part of a brave cowboy and one really was a brave cowboy. Which one does today’s Israel resemble? I grew up in a “traditional” North American Jewish home – kosher at home, most holidays observed, driving to the synagogue, and with the television on during Shabbat. I remember that around my tenth […]
Israel manifests a social resilience in a nation that is far from giving up or rejecting the Jewish role in history, despite terror. In my 2003 novel, The Second Catastrophe: A Novel About a Book and its Author, a Canadian Jewish professor, son of a survivor of the Shoah, becomes obsessed with the idea that […]
We are at a turning point and we have the opportunity to make the post-Ukraine world a better one with better values and ideologies and leadership by better people. NOTE: This is part Two of a two-part series. Part One is entitled Leadership in a Time of Crisis: Israel and America “The presidency is not […]
Israel is facing some potentially catastrophic challenges that require supporters of Israel to speak out as never before in support of the Jewish State. Its government is in crisis as well. NOTE: This is part one of a two-part series, with the second one being entitled On Leaders and War: Ideological Transformation in the West […]
“Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.” – Edgar Allan Poe In my controversial novel, The Second Catastrophe: A Novel About a Book and its Author, the protagonist is a Professor, son of a Holocaust Survivor, who writes a book during the suicide bombings of the Second […]
Finally, after 49 years, the Olympics has a moment of silence to honour the Israeli athletes murdered by Palestinian terrorists at the Munich Olympics 1972. Here is the essay I wrote for Frontpage Magazine five years ago about Germany’s sad response to the murder of Jews in Munich, and how its moral failure has only […]