Author: David Rutman

[embedded content] In what was described as some of the worst demonstrations in Beirut since the popular protests had begun on October 17, dozens of people were injured in clashes with police which fired rubber bullets and used tear gas and water cannons to push back anti-government protesters. According to several media outlets, Sunday morning’s […]

Photo Credit: Twitter Luxembourg’s Foreign Minister Jean Asselborn meeting with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah, on 9/11, 2019 {Originally posted to the JCPA website} Europe does not intend to sit quietly following the U.S. recognition of the legality of settlements in the West Bank. Luxembourg’s Foreign Minister Jean Asselborn is advancing an initiative for […]

[embedded content] According to six13.com, Baby Yoda’s cousin delivered this sage advice to Luke Skywalker, which he took from the Maccabees. Like the Jedi years later, against all odds, they fought off a great empire who sought their destruction. The Jedi won and chased the empire away from their holy land. But then they discovered […]

Photo Credit: IRNA English via Twitter screen grab Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei meets in Tehran with Hamas deputy chief Saleh al-Arouri and delegation members {Originally posted to the Gatestone Institute website} Iran seems concerned that its Palestinian allies in the Gaza Strip may reach a long-term ceasefire with Israel. That is probably why […]

Photo Credit: U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class T. Logan Keown/Released The Turkish Yavuz-class frigate TCG Turgutreis (F 241) transits the Black Sea. Turkey in recent days delivered a message to Israel saying that despite its threats that it would not allow an Israeli gas pipeline to be laid from the reservoirs […]

Photo Credit: Twitter A Holocaust memorial event poster defaced with graffiti in east London {Originally posted to the JCPA website} There is an issue today, which is much more dangerous for Europe than its unity, the stability of its institutions, or Brexit. The issue: anti-Semitism. Anti-Semitism has wounded European history almost fatally. The Shoah remains […]

Photo Credit: Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90 PA Arab woman protesting against President Donald Trump, December 28, 2017. President Donald Trump’s peace team is expected to decide in the coming days whether to publish the Deal of the Century—the peace proposal for Israel and the Palestinian Authority—now, despite the fact that Israel still does not have an elected […]

Photo Credit: Hadas Parush / Flash 90 “Nec audiendi qui solent dicere, Vox populi, vox Dei, quum tumultuositas vulgi semper insaniae proxima sit (And those people should not be listened to who keep saying the voice of the people is the voice of God, since the riotousness of the crowd is always very close to […]

Photo Credit: wikimedia SIX DAY WAR. DEFENSE MINISTER MOSHE DAYAN, CHIEF OF STAFF YITZHAK RABIN, GEN. REHAVAM ZEEVI (R) AND GEN. NARKIS IN THE OLD CITY OF JERUSALEM. {Originally posted to the BESA website} Military correspondents have reported that in the IDF General Staff’s assessment, it is doubtful whether expanding offensive activity—however successful—can cause Tehran […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press Chaim had learned together with David for five years in yeshiva in Israel. Chaim was now getting married in the States and very much wanted to have his former chavrusa join him, so he bought him a ticket to the United States. David thanked his friend, but when the day of […]