David P. Goldman

In today’s daily article for the On the Square blog I review the good news and bad news about Israel on the 61st anniversary of its independence.  I also offer an unashamed plug for one of my favorite publications in the world, the quarterly review Azure  from whose next issue I . . . . Continue Reading »

Israel’s Independence Day, the 5th of Iyar according to the Jewish calendar, falls on April 29th this year. This is always an occasion to reflect on Israel’s prospects, and, as always, there is good news and bad news.Earlier this week the head of the Palestinian Authority, Muhammed Abbas, . . . . Continue Reading »

Hugo Chavez is a murderous kleptocrat who has bankrupted his country, condemned tens of millions to malnutrition despite the country’s (stolen) oil wealth, spied on the United States in cahoots with Fidel Castro and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, given a helping hand to terrorists—and unleashed the . . . . Continue Reading »

Forget the cookies and tea, the polite mutual admiration societies, the committee draftsmanship of pious theses that plague the academic industry known as Jewish-Christian dialogue. Here we pour high-proof schnaps, straight from the barrel. The Christian-Jewish engagement is nothing, if it is . . . . Continue Reading »

Between the gay thought police and California and the Iranian mullahs, what’s a girl to do? Freelance journalist Roxana Saberi , Miss North Dakota for 1997, was convicted of espionage and sentenced to eight years in prison just before the public savaging of today’s Miss California, . . . . Continue Reading »

For the time being, this blog will function in parallel to the Spengler Forum at Asia Times Online. At some point in the near future, a readers’ forum will be up and running on this . . . . Continue Reading »

As a young man I wandered for a while in the fever-swamps of paranoid politics, where conspiracy theories flourished like fungus.  The current issue of The  Atlantic  almost (but not quite) made me nostalgic for the bad old days, for prominently featured is a lurid tale of a . . . . Continue Reading »

The harsh demands of the Hebrew Scriptures to rid the world of heathen enemies continue to be holy words for Christians. Continue Reading »

May 14 is Israel’s Independence Day (celebrated according to the Jewish rather than the Gregorian calendar), recalling the declaration of the State of Israel in 1948. For Palestinian Arabs the following day, May 15, is a day of mourning, “Disaster ( Naqba ) Day.” It has gone . . . . Continue Reading »

“This was not just another meeting,” the Jerusalem Post today quotes Haifa Chief Rabbi She’ar-Yashuv Cohen after yesterday’s meeting between Pope Benedict XVI at the Vatican with a delegation from the Israeli rabbinate. “This was a special experience, a turning . . . . Continue Reading »