I’m embarrassed by how weak and fatuous western culture has become. Studying World War I entails reading the memoirs of soldiers. A century ago civilized societies were far more realistic about life. They recognized that some people have to be killed in order to benefit the world. Here’s a story that I don’t buy on…
Tell me again that hatred of Jews isn’t a factor
December 1, 2014
Former Associated Press journalist and editor Matti Friedman has written a piece titled “What the Media Gets Wrong About Israel.” It’s a good article about how the global press is biased against Israel, but there’s a giant hole in it: Why—of all the nations on earth—has the media chosen Israel as the subject of transparently…
Update on phony Gaza sniper video
July 26, 2014
On July 21, 2014, I wrote a post about a blatantly fake video that claimed to show an Israeli sniper shooting to death a Palestinian man named Salem Khalil Salem Shammaly. This made lots of people very angry. Because they hate violence, they’re threatening to kill me. Makes perfect sense. Just now I got an…