The Greatest Gift Jews Can Offer the World
A manifesto for Jewish conservatism.
April 19, 2017
Marwan Barghouti Is No Nelson Mandela
A terrorist mastermind masquerading as a political prisoner.
For several years, Western media have regularly painted Marwan Barghouti—the Fatah official, imprisoned by Israel, who masterminded the second intifada—as a Palestinian peacemaker on the model of South Africa’s Nelson Mandela. Just this past weekend, the New York Times ran a lengthy op-ed piece by Barghouti touting a planned prisoners’ hunger strike, vilifying Israel, and presenting himself as a victim of arbitrary arrest and brutal confinement as a mere political activist; obligingly, the Times identified its guest author, who in fact is serving four life sentences for multiple murders of Israeli civilians, only as a “Palestinian leader and parliamentarian.” Dexter van Zile writes about the travesty of equating the blood-soaked master terrorist with Mandela:
April 19, 2017
“Soft Partition” Is Syria’s Likely Future
Zones of influence and a weak central government.
Marwan Barghouti Is No Nelson Mandela
A terrorist mastermind masquerading as a political prisoner.
For Medieval Sephardim, Marriages Were Made in Heaven. For Medieval Ashkenazim, They Were Made by Matchmakers
And perhaps by love, too.
What Lies Behind the Dream of Turning People into Computers and Computers into People
The futurist campaign against mortality.