October 9, 2025 ‘Victory has a thousand fathers. Defeat is an orphan’ Attributed to Count Ciano How very true. Thunderous self-congratulations echo over the temporary ceasefire in Gaza that many hope will end two years of massacre, kidnappings and war crimes in this open-air prison camp. President Donald Trump, hot […]
August 14, 2025 The last time I was in Washington DC I came out of my downtown hotel near the White House and asked the doorman which way to walk to a certain restaurant. ‘Turn left you will be fine,’ he said. ‘Turn right and you may be murdered.’ This […]
July 31, 2025 ‘Judaism is to do justice and to have mercy and to walk humbly with God; and all the rest is commentary and of secondary importance’. So wrote Rabbi Elmer Berger, a leading Jewish thinker of the 50’s and 60’s, who opposed what he called Israeli-style ‘Jewish nationalism.’ […]
