P. David Hornik

JERUSALEM — Last week Israel’s minister for Diaspora affairs, Natan Sharansky, sent an urgent letter to Prime Minister Ariel Sharon requesting that he demand that the Palestinian Authority stop executions of suspected “collaborators” with Israel. Such “collaborators” are generally Palestinians…

JERUSALEM — It will take time before we know the real implications of the Iraqi elections and how things will work out in that troubled country. At least we know, though, that the elections weren’t won by a radical, anti-Semitic,…

Tower of Babble: How the United Nations Has Fueled Global Chaos By Dore Gold (Crown Forum, 308 pages, $25.95) Hopes were high for the U.N. after the Cold War ended. People said what had hamstrung the organization was the U.S.-USSR…

JERUSALEM — My life has, in a sense, been bracketed by acts of political appeasement. In March 1938 Germany, beneficiary so far of British appeasement, invaded Austria and announced its “Anschluss” (Annexation) into the German Reich. That autumn both of…

Someone making a film of Kitty’s life could well call it “The Birds.” They give her no peace. Mainly at early morning or at dusk, when they make an agitated din from the trees in the courtyard, but at other…

JERUSALEM — Translating a scholarly paper the other day, I came across the term menticide. Apparently it’s been around for a while, since it was defined in 1996 as “the systematic effort to undermine and destroy a person’s values and…

Bashing the animal-rights movement has become a genre of conservative article. The latest I saw is one by Daniel Flynn, and he makes clear that there’s a lot to “bash.” Animal-rights fanatics in Britain have been threatening not only biomedical…

Though not what’s considered an observant Jew, I’ve done some unsystematic reading about Judaism, and once was lucky enough to be the private editor of a Judaic scholar for a few years. I find that certain traditional Jewish insights about…

The Jerusalem Post recently reported that U.S. army units are training in a special antiterror school near the town of Modi’in, between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, and that “after completing their training, the units will return to Iraq.” The article…

When conservative critics of the Iraq War start portraying it as a useless quagmire, the word neoconservative is usually not far behind. Since it’s not claimed that Bush and his top policy team are themselves neocons, there’s always an unpleasant…