Satanic Pictures
The main goal of the mainstream media is to bring us to the Brave New World, to the new spiritless totalitarianism, writes Israel Shamir, and the recent cartoons depicting the Prophet are a stepping stone toward that end
Merry Christmas From the Holy Land
Seasonal greetings together with some thoughts on those who will not be free to celebrate Christmas this year
Dutch Treat
He was recently attacked in a leading Dutch newspaper. Among other things, the writer complaining that Shamir’s work was appearing on websites that could never be taken seriously. Enjoy his reply as he takes apart his critics point-by-point
On the Move
One of the first articles by the brilliant Israel Shamir posted on this website, reposted in response to a readers request
The Guilty Lamb
The Boston Globe recently published an article, “Why Islam is direspected” by Jeff Jacoby. In answer Israel Shamir writes: ‘I doubt the US interrogators guilty of offending the Muslims will land in jail next to Ernst Zundel who offended the Jews’
The Pardes
In 1973, my dashing unit of the Red Berets was ferried by a chopper into the yellow East Desert of Egypt and landed some 101 km from Cairo. We were given orders to block the Cairo-Suez road – Israel Shamir reflects on what it means to be Jewish
The Tsunami of Penitence
The headlines of Israeli newspapers enquire: “Did they learn the lesson?” Who are “they”? What lesson? The Jews won the war; that is the lesson for goyim, writes Israel Shamir
Russians in the Holy Land
I met a Russian Jewish lady writer recently, writes Israel Shamir. “You Israelis should erect a monument to me,” she said. “I brought you a million Russians: I announced on Moscow Echo Radio that there will be a pogrom.”
Dry Thy Tears
With Johm Kerry’s defeat in the presidential election, writes Israel Shamir, a new political sensibility is emerging
The Lone Fighter and the Battle for Palestine
Israel Shamir reflects on the arrest of a Palestinian, who single-handed, took on an entire Israeli check point
The Sword of St Michael
As what is effectively World War III, rages across Palestine, Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere, Israel Shamir reflects that it is not enough to simply be “against the war”
Is the Intifada Over?
“The Palestinian Intifada is over, and the Palestinians have lost”, wrote Jewish American columnist Charles Krauthammer recently. Is he right? Israel Shamir ponders the point in his own inimitable way