In mid-1944, with WWII still raging, George Orwell took aim at socialist and pacifist Vera Brittain, who had published a hand-wringing pamphlet attacking Allied bombing raids in Europe. Like the comfortable leftists today attacking Israel’s self-defensive response to Hamas’ unspeakable barbarities, Brittain whined about the “thousands of helpless and
John-Paul Baladi John-Paul Baladi is the Vice President of the Sudanese-Syrian Christian Community in Australia and the Former Territory Director of the Country Liberal Party. mercatornet.com “Australia is the most successful multicultural nation in the world.” Australian political leaders of all persuasions have often paraded this claim – but is
Over the weekend I was sent a video from the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs. It outlined in two short, yet horrifying minutes some of the appalling war crimes and atrocities perpetrated by Hamas on innocent civilians of Israel in the border areas around the Gaza Strip. I was also
Prof. Eitan Shamir BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 2,223, October 22, 2023 (Ph.D. Kings College) Former head of the National Security Doctrine Department in the Israel Ministry of Strategic Affairs. Expert on insurgencies and combat doctrine. besacenter.org A decade ago, in 2013, I published an article with
Dave Patterson National Security Correspondent at LibertyNation.Com. Dave is a retired US Air Force pilot with over 180 combat missions in Vietnam. He is the former Principal Deputy Under Secretary of Defense, Comptroller and has served in executive positions in the private sector aerospace and defense industry. libertynation.com
As I wrote recently, the ‘Palestinian-but-not-Hamas’ argument is as threadbare a fiction as arguing, in the 1930s, ‘German-but-not-Nazi’. Not all Palestinians voted for or fervently support Hamas, perhaps, but then, not all Germans did the Nazis, either. Even of those Germans who were members of the party itself, a relative
Our next guest grew up on the West Bank where his father was a founding member of Hamas. He was groomed to take a senior role before he turned on the terrorist group in prison. Spying for Israel now, converting to Christianity and ultimately seeking asylum in the US, Mosab
Dave Patterson National Security Correspondent at LibertyNation.Com. Dave is a retired US Air Force pilot with over 180 combat missions in Vietnam. He is the former Principal Deputy Under Secretary of Defense, Comptroller and has served in executive positions in the private sector aerospace and defense industry. libertynation.com
Curtis Houck Curtis Houck currently serves as the managing editor of NewsBusters after almost two years as a news analyst in the Media Research Center’s News Analysis division. During that time, he served as the sole evening news analyst, chronicling the best and worst of the network evening newscasts,
Rick Mac I’m sure that there are many readers out there, who, like me, are utterly appalled at the obscene and repulsive antisemitic behavior that we are witnessing in the streets of many Western cities today. Swastikas displayed. Nazi salutes given. Chants of “Gas the Jews” and “F**k
In his provocative, brilliant book, Empire, historian Niall Ferguson argues not only that Britain Made the Modern World, but that colonisation brought many benefits to former colonies. Ferguson, points, for example, to India’s vast and essential network of railways, and its strong civil service — both legacies of the empire.
Robert Kogon Robert Kogon is the pen name of a widely-published journalist covering European affairs. brownstone.org It is chapter and verse nowadays among Covid-19 policy dissidents – or at least those who get amplified the most on X – that “Sweden won:” namely, by bucking the trend and refusing to lock
Get ready for another round of pearl-clutching about “Islamophobia” and “backlash”. In fact, it’s already begun — but it’s only going to get louder. Because it is, as we are all-too grimly familiar with, the default reaction of the media, politicians, and chattering classes, whenever the followers of the
Andrew Lowenthal Andrew Lowenthal is a Brownstone Institute fellow and co-founder and former executive director of EngageMedia, an Asia-Pacific digital rights, open and secure technology, and documentary non-profit, and a former fellow of Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society and MIT’s Open Documentary Lab. brownstone.org
The Israel-Gaza war is morally crystal-clear in a way that no conflict has been for the last eighty years. In the early 1940s, there was no moral equivalence between the Allies and the Axis. The enormities of Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan were so beyond the pale of basic human
