The World Oil Crisis: Implications for Global Security and the Middle East
The global oil market environment of very strong demand and very little spare capacity offers a huge opportunity to the radical jihadists. The terrorists believe that the best way to hurt the global Western economy is to go after oil
Winners and Losers in Denominational Memberships in the United States
Although dominant in the mid-twentieth century, Conservative Judaism has lost this place and is declining in numbers. Over the past decade, Reform Judaism has become the largest denomination. Despite Reform’s more "traditionalist" manifestations than in the past, the rift between it and the traditional Jewish community remains wide.
Iran’s Dangerous Quest
This book is an outstanding survey of the threats the present Iranian regime poses to the world. Although it focuses on the Iranian nuclear threat, it also considers Iran’s other WMD programs and its worldwide terror apparatus. An international war correspondent for thirty years who has written frequently for the Jane’s Information Group, Venter has excellent contacts with a number of intelligence communities, especially that of his native South Africa. In this work he reveals in depth South Africa’s role in helping Iran develop its nuclear capacity.
The Murder of Musa Arafat and the Battle for the Spoils of Gaza
Israeli assessments have pointed to both Fatah and Hamas as responsible for the murder of Gen. Musa Arafat – security advisor to PA Chairman Mahmud Abbas and former head of Military Intelligence and the National Security forces in Gaza – on September 7, 2005. However, ongoing Palestinian investigations have led some senior officials to assign responsibility to Mohammed Dahlan, the PA Minister of Civil Affairs and former head of PA Preventive Security in Gaza.
The ICJ Opinion on the Separation Barrier: Designating the Entire West Bank as “Palestinian Territory”
The International Court of Justice in The Hague (ICJ) in its advisory opinion on the legality of Israel’s separation barrier uncritically adopted the UN General Assembly phrase "Palestinian territories" as applying to all the territories. The UN General Assembly is a political body. It is not a global legislature that creates international law through its resolutions.
Hunting Nazi Criminals; Operation: Last Chance
Operation: Last Chance is not only an attempt to help achieve justice, but also part of the struggle for historical truth, and was designed to help promote Holocaust education and combat anti-Semitism. Its educational dimensions were designed to sensitize people to the history of the Holocaust and help them focus on the key historical issues relating to local complicity in Holocaust crimes and the implications thereof.
Isi Leibler on Tower of Babble: How the United Nations Has Fueled Global Chaos
The Failure of the United Nations
Tower of Babble: How the United Nations Has Fueled Global Chaos by Dore Gold
Reviewed by Isi Leibler
Shalom Freedman on Double or Nothing: Jewish Families and Mixed Marriage
Closer to Nothing
Double or Nothing: Jewish Families and Mixed Marriage by Sylvia Barack Fishman
Reviewed by Shalom Freedman
Shalom Freedman on Rabin and Israel’s National Security by Efraim Inbar
Israel’s "Mr. Security"
Rabin and Israel’s National Security by Efraim Inbar
Reviewed by Shalom Freedman
Shalom Freedman on Iran’s Dangerous Quest
Iran’s Dangerous Quest
Iran’s Nuclear Option: Tehran’s Quest for the Atom Bomb by Al J. Venter
Reviewed by Shalom Freedman
Assessing the American Jewish Institutional Response to Global Anti-Semitism
The new, global anti-Semitism presents a unique challenge because of its emphasis on public campaigns to delegitimize Israel, the Jewish people, and Judaism. The various responses of American Jewish organizations display three levels of engagement – core participation, selective interest, and minimal interest. Initiatives by these agencies in the European sphere have sometimes prompted criticism, particularly by French Jewish activists who allege presumptuous attitudes that put their own communities
Joel Fishman on The Oslo Syndrome: Delusions of a People under Siege
A Historical Analysis of the Jewish Condition after Oslo
The Oslo Syndrome: Delusions of a People under Siege by Kenneth Levin
Reviewed by Joel Fishman
Susanne Urban on From Cooperation to Complicity: Degussa in the Third Reich and The Nazi Dictatorship and the Deutsche Bank
How German Banks and Industry Profited from "Aryanization" and Slave Labor
From Cooperation to Complicity: Degussa in the Third Reich, by Peter Hayes and The Nazi Dictatorship and the Deutsche Bank by Harold James
Reviewed by Susanne Urban
Manfred Gerstenfeld on Holocaust Justice: The Battle for Restitution in America’s Courts
The American Legal System and Holocaust Restitution
Holocaust Justice: The Battle for Restitution in America’s Courts, by Michael J. Bazyler
Reviewed by Manfred Gerstenfeld
Manfred Gerstenfeld on Les territoires perdus de la République
Muslim Intimidation in French Schools not only Threatens Jews
Les territoires perdus de la République: Antisémitisme, racisme et sexisme en milieu scolaire by Emmanuel Brenner
Reviewed by Manfred Gerstenfeld
