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Feb 15, 2025, 10:04 PM
Israel May Be Ready to Bomb Iran’s Nuclear Sites
Is Israel ready and willing to strike Iran's nuclear facilities? This is not an idle question. It goes to the heart of current tensions in the Middle East. Israel has been contemplating this potentially risky military option for more than a...
Feb 13, 2025, 8:29 PM
Israel and Turkey May Be on a Collision Course
The swift collapse of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's secular regime, followed by the rapid emergence of an Islamist government in Damascus, are driving speculation that Israel and Turkey could be on the cusp of a collision course in Syria. Early...
Feb 11, 2025, 5:57 PM
The Deranged Kanye West
A deranged person like Kanye West, the African American rapper and designer who calls himself Ye, should be ignored. But ignoring him is not really an option. Due to his enormous following on social media and his ability to...
Feb 10, 2025, 6:18 AM
To Have And Have Not
Betty Joan Perske, otherwise known as Lauren Bacall, achieved fame after starring opposite Humphrey Bogart, her future husband, in Howard Hawks’ 1944 romantic thriller, To Have And Have Not. Portraying a sultry seductress in her movie debut, Bacall would...
Feb 8, 2025, 4:26 PM
The October 7 War
Early on the morning of October 7, 2023, Israeli soldiers guarding the border along the Gaza Strip noticed signs of an imminent attack. Around the same time, the head of the Israeli army's Southern Command, General Yaron Finkelman, returned...
Feb 6, 2025, 10:30 PM
Donald Trump’s Gaza Bombshell
Donald Trump dropped a bombshell during an extraordinary press conference with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Washington on February 4. It sent shock waves across the Middle East, causing a great deal of dismay. In one of the most stunning...
Feb 5, 2025, 9:24 PM
Trump’s Threat Unsettles Canada
Reason prevailed when Donald Trump, on February 3, pressed the pause button and postponed the imposition of hefty US tariffs on Canadian and Mexican exports. Temporarily, at least, he thereby averted a nasty trade war that would be damaging...
Feb 4, 2025, 5:18 PM
The U.S. Gets Tough With The Houthis
The United States recently redesignated the Houthis as a "foreign terrorist organization," citing the threat they pose to the security and stability of the Middle East. The designation was originally imposed by President Donald Trump during his first term of...
Feb 2, 2025, 4:53 PM
The Bibas Family Tragedy Is An Israeli Trauma
The fourth Israeli hostage/Palestinian prisoner exchange since November 2023 took place in the Gaza Strip yesterday as Yarden Bibas, 35, Ofer Calderon, 54, and Keith Siegel, 65, were freed after 484 days in captivity. Before they were released into the...
Jan 31, 2025, 7:04 PM
Politics Marred Auschwitz Ceremony
There were glaring omissions on the list of dignitaries invited to the somber ceremony on January 27 marking the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz Birkenau extermination camp in Poland. Presidents, prime ministers, kings and queens, representing 53...
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Sheldon Kirshner is a journalist in Toronto. He writes at his online journal, SheldonKirshner.com
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