Amnesty International Exposes the Man Behind the Curtain
To the human-rights experts, failure to find evidence of Israel’s wrongdoing is itself evidence of wrongdoing.
February 25, 2022
Netflix Uses Historical Revisionism to Restore a Coward’s Reputation
Munich: The Edge of War and the failure to recognize evil.
A powerful country, trying to restore its former glory a few decades after losing a major global conflict, starts testing the international community, violating agreements, and eventually gobbling up a couple of small territories in Eastern Europe. Met with Western weakness, it is eventually emboldened to launch a full-scale invasion of one of its neighbors. Such is the story not only of recent events in Ukraine, but also of Adolf Hitler’s assault first on Czechoslovakia and then on Poland. In the recent Netflix film Munich: The Edge of War, the British prime minister Neville Chamberlain’s famous capitulation in the titular city in 1938 is made out to be an act of strategic wisdom. Meir Soloveichik writes in his review:
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What the War in Ukraine Means for Israel and the Middle East
Moscow might try to counter Washington by punishing the Jewish state.
Netflix Uses Historical Revisionism to Restore a Coward’s Reputation
Munich: The Edge of War and the failure to recognize evil.
The First Time Be’er Sheva Was a Negev Boomtown
Southern Israel’s ancient, and modern, capital.
When Yiddish Poetry Flourished in the Cafés of Weimar Berlin
Moyshe Kulbak’s Childe Harold.