Like its Arab neighbors (Jordan, Lebanon, Syria and Iraq), Israel was created on land that belonged to the Ottoman Turks and was not part of any nation in any meaningful sense of the term. It was not created by Jewish conquest but by the edict of the victorious powers in World War II who shifted [...]
War May not be Like the Movies, but Quit Blaming John Wayne
May 29, 2010 By Leave a Comment
It’s become the new cliche. Every Memorial Day, a teacher/historian/columnist or such has to think of something to say, and inevitably we hear a phrase something like, “War is not like a John Wayne movie.” OK, but who the heck ever said war was like a John Wayne movie? Life is not like many movies. Even [...]
Another Look at the Problem of Refugees
May 17, 2010 By Leave a Comment
In mid-May, as usual, many newspapers around the globe devoted their pages to the seemingly irresolvable problem of Palestinian refugees. For instance, on May 16, the www.xinhuanet.com website of the Chinese news agency Xinhua reported from Israel:
According to the United Nations (UN) figures, some 726,000 Palestinians left their homes 62 years ago, shortly before [...]
Luck Is Not A Strategy
May 10, 2010 By 14 Comments
America’s safety depends on the proposition that Islamic terrorists will prove more incompetent than the Obama administration.
From the Writings of David Horowitz: April 23, 2010
April 23, 2010 By Leave a Comment
From its opening image, Rogue State proceeds to dismiss the idea that the Cold War was a conflict between nuclear superpowers or a contest between totalitarianism and freedom. Instead Rogue State presents the Cold War as the concoction of a single omnipotent power – a power whose ends are predatory and evil – able to [...]
From the Writings of David Horowitz: April 6, 2010
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The latest front in the War on Terrorism was opened yesterday – by former Vice President Al Gore. At a critical juncture in the War on Terror, with the handover of sovereignty to the Iraqi Governing Council just weeks away, Gore appeared before the MoveOn.org, a radical group which had already [...]
Throwing Tomatoes: Poliwood on Tom Hanks’ Anti-Americanism
March 21, 2010 By Leave a Comment
At Pajamas TV, Roger L. Simon (author of Blacklisting Myself and Oscar-nominated screenwriter) and Lionel Chetwynd (Oscar-nominated filmmaker) talk about actor Tom Hanks’ recent outrageous statements about World War II. For those of you who don’t remember, Hanks said that America fought against the Japanese not because the latter were fascists bent on dominating and [...]
Tom Hanks’ Anti-American History
March 17, 2010 By 71 Comments
The Hollywood “historian” claims America fought the Japanese in WWII because they “were different.”
Er, sorry, you still read newspapers because why now?
March 16, 2010 By Leave a Comment
The Chicago Tribune’s Ron Grossman writes:
I took a quick survey in the newsroom the other day, something between a Rorschach test and a pop quiz, asking younger colleagues to identify an iconic photograph [see photo above] of World War II.
While some instantly recognized the image, others couldn’t quite place it.
Extremely disturbing on many levels.
You [...]
Patriotism on the Rise
One of the best conservative commentators in Europe, Theodore Dalrymple, wrote a great article for Pajamas Media about the crisis in Europe and especially Germany’s reaction to it. As usual with Dalrymple, the article provocatively entitled “Reawakening German Nationalism: What Could Go Wrong,” is sarcastically written, funny, direct and, most importantly, largely correct.
Dalrymple’s main point is [...]