How Israel Sees Eastern Europe – Zev Chafets (Bloomberg via Daily Alert)
Feb. 19, 2019 How Israel Sees Eastern Europe – Zev Chafets Many Europeans wonder how Israel can make common cause with the nationalist leaders of Hungary, Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia – the Visegrad nations. Given Israel’s precarious history, it is a highly pragmatic country. Looking the other way has been the practice of every […]
Read More →CHOOSING THE RIGHT STRONGMEN ALLIES, by Lahav Harkov (Tablet)
Jan. 29, 2019 Israel’s alliance with illiberal regimes can be necessary and justified but not when they embolden anti-Semitic dog whistles …:”many analysts who lament Israel’s cozying up to strongmen ignore research showing that Eastern European Jews feel safer from anti-Semitism than those in the West, which may be because they perceive the greatest threat […]
Read More →When Islam’s Largest Army Came: The Siege of Vienna, 1683 (Creeping Sharia)
July 23, 2018 July 14, 1683, the largest Islamic army ever to invade European territory came and surrounded Vienna, the heart of the Holy Roman Empire and de facto nemesis of Islam. Earlier this month, when Polish lawmaker Dominik Tarczyński was asked how many “refugees” Poland has taken in, he flatly responded: “Zero.” When the British interviewer, whose […]
Read More →Poll: 20% of central, eastern Europeans do not accept Jews as fellow citizens, by Dan Lavie (Israel Hayom)
Apr. 3, 2018 Pew Research Center survey of 18 countries finds that in Poland, 18% do not accept Jews as fellow citizens, 20% do not accept Jews as neighbors and 30% do not want Jews in their families • But poll also finds Jews more favorably viewed than Muslims, Roma. Click here for article
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