The Iconoclast
For "Hiatus"– Please — A Quietus Make
In the last few years, everyone has had the same bright idea: to wit, to use, overuse, misuse, abuse, the word “hiatus.” It’s the all-purpose word for a lapse, gilded […]
Common Constitutional Sense From The Supreme Court
The Supreme Court votes to uphold the requirement, in some states,for would-be voters to show identification, the same kind of identification you need for a dozen ordinary transactions every day, […]
Amir Hetsroni And The Israeli Left That Despises "Arab" Jews But Finds Arab Arabs Just Fine
One more manifestation of the hysterical despair, of the Israeli left, at the election results, at the realisation that there are many in Israel unwilling to be pushed around by […]
In France, The Muslim Terrorist Threat "Is Permanent"
Here. Tunisia and tourism have been in the news this past week. Now think. The most fanatical Muslims have, with one attack in Tunisia at the Bardo Museum, done great […]
Prince Al-Faisal Worries About Washington And Its Iran Deal
Given the long record of American naivete in dealing with the Muslim East — “here lies one who tried to hustle the East” — now reaching its apotheosis, apparently, in […]
Jean-Pierre Lledo: Israël: Un Tel Peuple, Je L’aime!
At Le Huffington Post, in French, here.
Riposte Laique: The French, Inspired By The Israelis
Here. The FN came second in the local elections, far ahead of its previous performance. And if you look not at individual outcomes, but at the total vote for the […]
What Does Lake Hamoun Have To Do With The Negotiations With Iran?
Please give a brief answer in the comments section. I will reply to the comments in detail. Thank you.
Please Write On Only One Side Of The Blue Book
What might this article, or even more this one have to do with diminishing the menace of Islam?
Cooking the Intelligence Books on Iran
“Love is whatever you can still betray.” – John Le Carre There was a time that intelligence estimates were cloaked in secrecy. Peer review, such that it was, was limited […]
Palestinians, Arabs, and the Holocaust
INTRODUCTION One of the major Palestinian Arab arguments regarding the establishment of the state of Israel is that the West facilitated its founding out of guilt over the Holocaust. Palestinians […]
Islam, The Murder Of Fakhunda, And What Helena Malikyar Cannot Say
Al Jazeera is the propaganda organ of nasty little Qatar, and a stout Defender of the Faith, with all sorts of distractions and deflections as the arrows in its quiver. […]
Who Whom’s On First In Libya
Kwazy Kat and Offizer Pup, fighting each other with abandon in Sirte and Derna, in Benghazi and Zintan, here. Kto kogo? It’ll take a while to sort out. A long […]
Macron Economics
It’s received wisdom that France does not reform except by violence. Since I heard my French brother-in-law repeat this wisdom recently, I believe that it must be true. The French […]
Hayden, Heinonen, Takeyh: American Folly, Iranian Time Bomb
Not Benjamin Netanyahu, not Tom Cotton, but Michael Hayden, Olli Heinonen, and Ray Takeyh, on the Iranian strategy, and the danger of allowing only a year to detect, judge, decide […]
A Musical Interlude: Yes, My Darling Daughter (Elsie Carlisle)
Listen here.