It is so clear that holdovers from the previous two administrations wrote Secretary Powells foreign policy speech, that we were surprised by two fundamental, huge, glaring, practically unforgivable MISTAKES of AMERICAN HISTORY/POLICY. “The Middle East has always needed active American engagement for there to be progress, and we will provide it, just as we have […]

Some years ago, Hymer E. Rosen wrote an article about Sam Dreben for the Texas Jewish Historical Society which I personally feel should be read by every anti-Semite who ever said, “Jews don’t fight!” By the same token, the Fall 2001 edition of The Jerusalem Veteran carried a similar article about Dreben that was reprinted […]

On March 3 last year, I picked up a message on my service: “Mr. Jonas, my name is Jim Welsh,” the flat American voice said. “I’m curious about something regarding the Munich Olympic massacre that you wrote about many years ago. I worked in the Palestinian section of the National Security Agency, and I am […]

The canard that “Jews use Christian blood to make Passover matzos” plagued Jewish communities worldwide for centuries. The blood libel led to many massacres of Jews throughout the Middle Ages and pogroms in Russia, was revived by the Nazis, and has been used by anti-Zionists to our day. While it is well known that blood […]

Throughout the dark days of the Holocaust, there were many young women who played a pivotal role in the rescue and survival of their fellow Jews. There were indeed “Women of Valor.” Some worked with the Partisans and the Resistance and some fought back as individuals to save the lives of hundreds of children and […]

Ensigns Asher and Moldane were having breakfast on the day that “will live in infamy.” They never finished it. Zeroes (Japanese war planes) descended from the sky 60 years ago, December 7th, bringing destruction and carnage upon our Pacific fleet, American servicemen, their families and Hawaiians. There were more than 3,500 casualties. Nearly 2,500 were […]

That the predicament of the Palestinian Arabs is lamentable no one can dispute. After a half-century as a stateless people, they are among history’s orphans. Generations of their young, born in the refugee camps, have no profession but violence, no ambition but martyrdom, no creed but rage. Militant Islamists have come very late to the […]

The Arabs do not want to destroy Israel in order to have a state for the Palestinians in order to destroy Israel. This twist of logic, as echoed by Reb Chaim in a different context, holds a fundamental insight into the conflict in which the Jewish people are presently engaged. The very name “Palestine” hold […]

In June 2 and 3, 1941, a pro-Nazi pogrom (farhod) was perpetrated against the Jewish community of Baghdad with 900 Jews killed, thousands injured, and millions of dollars in property looted, burned and destroyed. Many of the dead were not identified and were buried in a mass grave. This is a personal memoir of what […]

The name Alfred Dreyfus does not evince the same emotional response as it did in years gone by. The Captain Alfred Dreyfus case was a classic example of anti-Semitism. It took place in what we might say was “an enlightened society” – a society that brought historic shame and scandal to what was supposed to […]