After Years of Friction, Turkey Is Trying to Mend Fences with Syria
Erdogan’s latest reversal of course.
September 16, 2022
Mahmoud Abbas May Have Chosen to End His Career in Violence
His attempt to blackmail Israel and the U.S. could backfire.
On Wednesday, terrorists in the West Bank opened fire at an IDF checkpoint, killing Bar Falah, a thirty-year-old major. Falah’s comrades quickly killed the shooters, one of whom was a Palestinian Authority (PA) security officer. Last week, thanks to good luck and the vigilance of police, a major terrorist attack in Tel Aviv was thwarted. Yoni Ben Menachem believes these and many other recent incidents are not so much the result of the aging PA president Mahmoud Abbas losing his grip on the reins of power, but of his decision to resume violence:
September 16, 2022
Mahmoud Abbas May Have Chosen to End His Career in Violence
His attempt to blackmail Israel and the U.S. could backfire.
The War in Ukraine Demonstrates the Necessity of American Power Rather Than the Potential for European Unity
What Germany’s foremost philosopher doesn’t understand.
The British Museum Tries, and Fails, to Recast Paganism as Female Empowerment
“In view of the sex-soaked Egyptian phallocracy, no wonder monotheistic women shook their timbrels in celebration when they left.”
A Rare Coin from 1st-Century Judea Found in the U.S.
Plundered, taken West, and located.