By Failing to Maintain Its Deterrence in the Middle East, the U.S. Is Emboldening Iran
The administration’s playbook to deter further escalation has not worked.
November 5, 2019
How the Jew Whom Hitler Blamed for Kristallnacht Outsmarted His Captors
By concocting a story of a homosexual affair.
When, a Polish Jew named Herschel Grynszpan walked into the German embassy in Paris and assassinated an official in retaliation for the Nazis’ persecution of his family, Adolf Hitler immediately used it as a pretext to launch violent attacks on Jews throughout the Third Reich. Saturday marks the 81st anniversary of these pogroms, which came to be known as Kristallnacht. Stephen Koch, whose biography of Grynszpan was reviewed in Mosaic, explains how Grynszpan—arrested by the Gestapo in 1940—foiled Nazi plans to use him as a pawn:
November 5, 2019
The Good News and the Bad about Joe Biden’s Defense of American Military Aid to Israel
The fate of the Democrats as a pro-Israel party rests on Biden’s aging and uncertain shoulders.
Lebanon’s Government Is Controlled by Terrorists. The U.S. Shouldn’t Bail It Out
The dangers of an obsession with “stability.”
How the Jew Whom Hitler Blamed for Kristallnacht Outsmarted His Captors
By concocting a story of a homosexual affair.
When Ray Charles Sang “Hava Nagilah” with David Ben-Gurion
Throughout his life, he remained a friend of Israel.