Under Argentina’s New Government, There Won’t Be Justice for Alberto Nisman, or for the Victims of Iranian Terror
And a new documentary streaming on Netflix regurgitates propaganda.
March 3, 2020
In Israel, Political Fights Have Always Gotten Ugly
From Ben-Gurion vs. Weizmann to Rabin vs. Peres.
On his way to cast his vote in Jerusalem yesterday, President Reuven Rivlin told reporters that he was “ashamed” that his country had to go through “another awful and grubby election campaign.” But, as Tevi Troy relates, the Jewish state has a long history of ferocious political rivalries, beginning with that between Chaim Weizmann, the first person to hold Rivlin’s position, and Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion. And the mutual hatred between that pair was no greater than that between the two great heroes of the Labor party, Yitzḥak Rabin and Shimon Peres:
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As the Syrian Civil War Escalates, America Must Face the Consequences of Passivity
Escalation between Turkey and Syria.
A Recent Ruling Gives the Lie to the Claim That the Religious Freedom Restoration Act Is a Tool of Oppression
Contra Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the RFRA protects minorities.
In Israel, Political Fights Have Always Gotten Ugly
From Ben-Gurion vs. Weizmann to Rabin vs. Peres.
Does Belief in the Self Require Belief in God? And Can Western Morality Exist Without Either?
Without Jewish and Christian ideas of human dignity, “universal” values are left hanging in the void.