May 20, 2011 4:00 am ‘Jewish anti-Semites’ A May 13 editorial, “What is Wiesenfeld’s Worry,” makes the laudable point, “We believe in a big tent Judaism and a big tent Jewish community. Kicking people out of the tent hurts us more than it hurts them.” So far, so good. But the editorial directly above it, “Beyond the Fringe,” states, “although Rabbi Menachem […] By Richard Reisman
August 6, 2010 4:00 am Says ‘two-state solution’ is no solution In June 2009, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel formally accepted the two-state solution and agreed to the establishment of a Palestinian state provided the Palestinians were willing to accept the State of Israel. Palestinian Chief Negotiator Saeb Erekat responded, “Netanyahu will have to wait 1,000 years before he finds one Palestinian who will go […] By Richard Reisman
March 25, 2010 4:00 am Slams editorial In “Obama Beats Up Israel to Distract Arabs From Iran,” Judith Klinghoffer wrote in the Jewish World Review on March 11, “The glee with which the Obama administration jumped on the Jewish state for a misplaced timing of an announcement is palpable.” Wesley Pruden in “Joe’s Israeli Adventure” (JWR March 9) wrote, “There’s abundant evidence […] By Richard Reisman
October 26, 2009 4:00 am Another view of Kasztner In regard to “No good deed goes unpunished” (Oct. 16), here are the words of those who were eyewitnesses to this history, quoted in Ben Hecht’s 1962 book “Perfidy.” Adolf Eichmann: “I believe that Kasztner would have sacrificed a thousand or a hundred thousand of his blood to achieve his political goal….You can have the […] By Richard Reisman
September 4, 2009 4:00 am On Clinton’s trip to North Korea There are so many problems with Menachem Rosensaft’s Aug. 14 op-ed piece “President Clinton’s mission to North Korea ennobles us all” it is tough to begin. The rallying cry of “never again” in regard to the Jewish Holocaust obviously has no application to the North Korean gulag where more than 500,000 people have perished and […] By Richard Reisman
November 7, 2008 5:00 am Against FDR In your Oct. 31 editorial “My fellow Americans,” you write, “Roosevelt made recommendations that are useful to this day.” If so, why weren’t Roosevelt’s recommendations useful in his day? Among those recommendations, FDR introduced the New Deal and an alphabet soup of federal aid programs like the NRA, FSA and FERA, none of which prevented […] By Richard Reisman
September 26, 2008 4:00 am Against Democratic presidents Six million Jews died in the Holocaust while FDR was president. George McGovern flew missions over the railway lines that brought the victims to concentration camps. He later said it would have been no trouble to bomb those lines. Thousands of Jewish lives could have been saved. The St. Louis carrying 937 passengers fleeing wartime […] By Richard Reisman