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Stockholm now symbolizes the Stockholm syndrome, in which captives aid their captors.

Stockholm syndrome in Israel

The Stockholm syndrome or “capture-bonding,” is a psychological phenomenon in which hostages express empathy and sympathy, and thus have positive feelings, toward their captors, sometimes to...

A Christmas Nativity scene - not a bland, nondescript holiday display

Ignite the Pulpit8 years ago

The First Christmas Tree – Part One

Have you ever heard parents lament over how their children pay more attention to the gifts under the tree at Christmastime than to the reason for...

Harry S. Truman showed some of the qualities of a statesman, though he said a statesman was a dead politician.

Guest Columns8 years ago

Statesman v. politician

Perhaps it’s just a tall tale, but President Harry Truman reputedly said that a statesman is nothing but a dead politician. As is well known, however, Harry...

Ben Hecht would have a field day with modern Muslims and liberal Jews.

Guest Columns8 years ago

Ben Hecht, thinkers, Jews, and ants

The following remarks reconstruct and update a few observations and ideas appearing in A Guide for the Bedeviled, by Ben Hecht. He made them in 1949...

Benjamin Netanyahu won the 2015 Israeli elections. He is now the longest-serving Prime Minister of Israel. Since then he finds himself in a dilemma he can only solve after some soul searching.

Guest Columns8 years ago

Netanyahu, Israeli media, and omissions

Martin Sherman has written a provocative article which appeared in Arutz-7 on November 25, 2016. The article bears the title “Benjamin Netanyahu – A synopsis: The...

What a Jihad recruitment poster would look like if they were honest about the rage and hate they bear toward anything non-Muslim. (Does that include mass rape as well?) This is the true face of the Muslim faith, and disqualifies it as a religion. Words like islamophobia will not change that. No room for moderates here. It turned Europe into Eurabia. This is World War III. It also captures the spirit of sedition in prominent American Muslims. not only sedition, but also barbarism - refusing to recognize anyone else as human. Take offense at this! Considering this attitude, intolerance of Arabs by Jewish residents of Israel has a sound warrant. The more reason, by the way, never to tolerate it. One does not tolerate the intolerable. (And by the way: radicalization always happens between two people. No one self-radicalizes.)

Executive8 years ago

Barbarism, Israel, Islam, and the Pope

Barbarism1 means as the inability or unwillingness to recognize another person as a human being. This definition fully applies to Muslims who refer to non-Muslims as...

The Constitution, which sets forth the principle of rule of law, defines what is unconstitutional, and guarantees freedom of speech and other liberties of a Constitutional republic, and also describes the impeachment power. (How many know of the Jewish roots of this document?) Hypocrisy threatens Constitutional government. Could Israel use a constitution like this? More to the point: would a Convention of States save it, or destroy it? (Example: civil asset forfeiture violates the Constitution.) Quick fixes like Regulation Freedom Amendments weaken it. Furthermore: the Constitution provides for removing, and punishing, a judge who commits treason in his rulings. Furthermore, opponents who engage in lawfare against an elected President risk breaking the Constitution.

Constitution8 years ago

Convention of States: don’t!

Herewith the first installment in the new Trump Elevator Pitch series – open letters to President-elect Donald J. Trump. Each pitch will discuss an issue the...

Paratroopers visit Yad VaShem, greatest memorial to Jews, to remind themselves why they defend the Land of Israel. This is indeed a reminder of appropriate vengeance. Here also they remember a special class of Kedoshim, namely martyrs.

Executive8 years ago

Land of Israel and ballad mongers

I never cease to be astonished by the chutzpah of most Israeli Prime Ministers. Their policies suggest they personally own the Land of Israel and can...

Plymouth Rock Monument, Plymouth, MA, where the Pilgrims landed. A worthy monument to Thanksgiving.

Ignite the Pulpit8 years ago

Thanksgiving and thankfulness

Our American tradition of celebrating Thanksgiving has often been reduced to discussions about the turkey with little regard for the Pilgrims – whom we regard as...

Israel, Judea and Samaria (occupied territories?), and Gaza. All these are the real Jewish and Israeli birthright, from the beginning. A God-given birthright, as Trump should recognize.. Which now-in-force international law and treaties recognize, going back to the San Remo Resolution. Even UN Resolution 242 couldn't change that. Disengagement from any of them spells disaster. A two-state solution violates this birthright. (As a candidate for ambassador clearly understands.) Why won't the Likud Party protect this birthright? Why do some accuse champions of Judea-Samaria of having crypto-Nazi tendencies? What can dispel the confusion on this point? And will The New York Times correct their own record in this regard? Or does a generation of the unteachable prevent a properly sober discussion? And now a new battle cry sounds: no taxation without annexation. Where is the proper statecraft Israel needs? Note: Israel is also a safer place for Christians than any other country in the Middle East.

Guest Columns8 years ago

Confusion pervades Israel

That confusion has pervaded Israel can be demonstrated by first considering a Dahaf poll of August 9, 2002, which reported the following about then Prime Minister...