In Praise of John McCain—from One Former Prisoner to Another
The prisoner of Zion remembers his first meeting with the senator.
August 28, 2018
“Operation Finale” Tells the Story of Eichmann’s Capture without Political Pieties or Banal Moralizing
It also gets right what Hannah Arendt got wrong.
The new film Operation Finale tells the story of the Mossad’s capture of Adolf Eichmann in Argentina in 1960. In his review, Liel Leibovitz—who as a child knew Peter Malkin, the film’s protagonist—praises the movie for avoiding the pitfalls of other cinematic portrayals of daring Israeli operations:
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Sidelining Abbas and Defunding UNRWA Are the Best Ways Forward for Israel and the U.S.
It’s time for the Israeli defense establishment to change its tune.
America Shouldn’t Reward Bashar al-Assad’s Brutality with Financial and Diplomatic Support
A reply to Jimmy Carter.
A New History of Judaism and Its Lessons for Today’s Intra-Jewish Conflicts
Told with “just the right amount of razzle-dazzle.”
“Operation Finale” Tells the Story of Eichmann’s Capture without Political Pieties or Banal Moralizing
It also gets right what Hannah Arendt got wrong.