By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta put the Israel-Iran issue back on the front burner, with comments indicating that Israel is likely to attack sometime in the period of April to June. His comments came in the shadow of a prominent address by Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei that described Israel [...]
By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — Classified Ad: Missing 69 Patriot missiles and 160 tons of explosives? If so, contact traffic police, Kotka, Finland. Iran, don’t bother. Dock workers in the port of Kotka were suspicious of ill-packed crates labeled “fireworks” on a ship bound from Germany to Shanghai. While adding to the existing cargo [...]
By Lloyd Levy LONDON –I find myself in a euphoric state of mind, and am proud to be British perhaps for the first time since Margaret Thatcher’s premiership. So that’s 21 years to wait, but at long last we have a Prime Minister willing to stand up for Britain’s best interests. David Cameron, the British [...]
By Daniel Halper WASHINGTON, D.C. — Despite the Kremlin’s best effort, an Internet video emerged the other week of Russian strongman Vladimir Putin being booed by a full arena of fans at the end of a mixed martial arts fight in Moscow’s Olympic Stadium. “Putin’s spin-doctors came up with a variety of explanations of the [...]
WASHINGTON, D.C (JINSA)–Too long neglected, the Pacific region will soon be getting its due. As U.S. forces are withdrawing from Afghanistan and have already departed Iraq, it is to the strategically important Pacific that American attention will be directed. And not a moment too soon. Friends and allies in the region have spent the better [...]
By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel – Some time ago I was given a small book, Jeder Tag in Theresienstadt ist ein Geschenk; Die Theresienstadter Tagebücher einer Hamburger Jüdin, 1943-1945 (‘Every Day in Theresienstadt is a Gift’) by Martha Glass, published in 1996 by the Hamburg Department for Political Education with an introduction by Barbara [...]
By Dan Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan –In many countries, languages ebb and flow as generations replace generations and new words replace old words. In Taiwan, where 23 million people live on a tobacco-leaf shaped island where several languages mix on a daily basis — from Mandarin Chinese to Hoklo Taiwanese to Hakka and over [...]
By Lloyd Levy LONDON– Europe is being convulsed by the most remarkable and unwelcome events. The elected legitimate Prime Ministers of both Greece and Italy have been forced to resign. They have been forced out effectively by diktat from the Germans, with France hanging on to the German coat tails in an attempt to retain some [...]
By Oleksandr Feldman KIEV, Ukraine — More than 70 years after World War II, one would think that few secrets remain from what might be the most heavily researched and examined period ever in world history. Each year, however, historians uncover new elements to the scope of horror that defined this era – and in [...]
By John Brennan BUCHENWALD, Germany — The unspeakable horror, the ignored cries of pain, and the unimaginable suffering. The final resting place for more than 50,000 innocent souls. This was Nazi era Germany: This was Buchenwald, the death camp infamous for performing medical experiments on its inmates. Its place in history marked by being the [...]
