Op-Eds

For Obama, Crimea is a Welcome Distraction from Iran

By | 2014-04-04T12:35:17-04:00 April 4th, 2014|Op-Eds|

Obama is clearly desperate to distract the world from Iran and from realizing that his Iran Interim Nuclear agreement is a farce - or shall we say a bomb (literally and figuratively).    Obama's agreement  will enable Iran to quickly develop a nuclear bomb under the world's radar and everybody from the Saudis to the

The Ages of Purim

By | 2014-04-03T22:32:27-04:00 April 3rd, 2014|Op-Eds|

Those who feel time in their bones know the patterns of history and can never lose themselves in one age or fall into the fallacy of a new era. They know that there is nothing new under the sun.   Saturday night began the celebration of the Jewish holiday of Purim, which lasts one day

Wealthy American Jews Have Abetted Iran’s Nukes

By | 2014-04-03T17:18:00-04:00 April 3rd, 2014|Op-Eds|

Several days ago, a group of 48 super-rich, super-politically connected American Jews sent a group-signed letter to all the Democratic U.S. Senators putting the “Rich Jewish Democratic Donor” kibosh to work on the Senate to prevent passing the Iranian sanctions bill that would have likely passed both Senate and House. Having the law pass would

Obama Lacks Knowledge and Vision on the Palestine Issue

By | 2014-04-02T16:32:20-04:00 April 2nd, 2014|Op-Eds|

Obama is either unaware of or purposely ignoring basic facts that affect the resolution of Israel's conflict with the PLO. President Obama’s interview with Jeffrey Goldberg on March 2 exposed the President as a leader lacking in understanding and vision -  and bound to a 20 years old negotiating process that has proved an abject

The Washington Report on the Middle East is a Joke

By | 2014-04-02T13:49:21-04:00 April 2nd, 2014|Op-Eds|

This is not a Purim article, unfortunately.   The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs claims that it is in the business of “Interpreting the Middle East for North Americans • Interpreting North America for the Middle East”.   Unfortunately the only place in the Middle East that the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs

Christian Suffering Stands in Way of Middle East Peace

By | 2014-04-02T13:12:50-04:00 April 2nd, 2014|Op-Eds|

The underlying problem isn’t between Israelis and Palestinian Arabs – It’s between Islamists and everyone else.   “I’m ready to accept their existence in their country; why don’t they accept me?” asked Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, addressing a German television audience last month.    Although Netanyahu’s rhetorical question was in reference to the Palestinian

The French Railway and the Jews 1943-44

By | 2014-03-29T23:07:05-04:00 March 29th, 2014|Op-Eds|

Manfred Gerstenfeld interviews Bernard Emsellem, former French State Railway Executive: "In the armistice agreement of June 1940, the SNCF was placed at the entire disposal of the German army" - with tragic results.   “The role of the French state railway SNCF during the Second World War has been both researched and criticized for a

In France, Muslims are Freedom Fighters, Jews are Nazis

By | 2014-03-29T22:50:29-04:00 March 29th, 2014|Op-Eds|

This is how history is skewed and the present is falsified.   In 1943, the French-Nazi forces arrested a French Resistance group called the “Manouchian Group”. Half of its members were Jewish and they were executed on Feb. 21, 1944. Seventy years ago.   Benoît Rayski, a French historian, recently went to speak to students