The Thirty Years War

This Saturday is the 30th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam war, and in marking it one cannot help but note the parallels with the present intervention. Naturally, there are many differences: the nature of the enemy, the terrain, and the origins of the current...

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Muslim Scholar Urges Halt to Extreme Punishments

NEW YORK - A Muslim scholar who was issued and then denied a visa to teach in the United States because of alleged ties to terrorists has called for an immediate moratorium on corporal and capital punishment and dialogue aimed at creating less repressive Muslim...

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A Useful Whitewash

"Bush views new report on spy lapses with favor," was the headline on the New York Times story previewing the latest commission that reported several weeks ago on the manifest and manifold U.S. government intelligence failures in detecting...

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Whitewashing the Holocaust

Jasenovac and the Politics of Genocide On April 22, 1945, a group of surviving inmates broke out of Jasenovac, Nazi-allied Croatia's main death camp. Sixty years later, their memories – and the grisly history of Jasenovac – have become prey to politics,...

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Exploring the Mideast Conflict With an Open Heart

After years of planning and collaboration, San Francisco's Traveling Jewish Theatre has brought its new play Blood Relative to the stage. Formed with input from all five performers, along with director Aaron Davidman and dramaturg Naomi Newman, the play centers around...

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Needed: A Consistent China Policy

If you've been following the news in recent days, you might have concluded that China resides in two parallel universes. First, there is the geo-economic universe in which China, the rising economic power with a huge current account surplus, is being urged by members...

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Letting in the Draft?

An overstretched military? You bet. Things going terribly in Iraq? No kidding. Why only yesterday, Jill Carroll and Dan Murphy of the Christian Science Monitor reminded us that, with 140,000 troops (and untold numbers of mercenaries) in Iraq, the Americans can't...

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Israelis Resist the Arabs in Their Midst

JERUSALEM - More than four years of violence between Israelis and Palestinians may have abated at least temporarily, but its effect is still being felt on relations between Jews and Arabs inside Israel. A string of recent polls, events and policy issues shows that...

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In Defense of Marla Ruzicka

People all across the political spectrum, encompassing all possible views on the Iraq war, stopped for a moment of rueful silence when the news broke that Marla Ruzicka was killed by a suicide bomber the other day. Well, almost everyone, that is, except for one Debbie...

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Horowitz’s Gang Smears the Dead

David Horowitz and gang never cease to amaze. From their crackpot intellectualism to their red-baiting antics, it's clear the folks over at FrontPageMagazine.com are nothing short of fascist. On April 25, Ann Coulter wannabe and FrontPage darling Debbie Schlussel had...

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