Public opinion in the United States has shifted significantly, not just outside but also within the Jewish community.

Apart from my parents, every family member on both sides was exterminated by the Nazis.

The Holocaust has proven to be an indispensable ideological weapon. Through its deployment, one of the world's most formidable military powers, with a horrendous human rights record, has cast itself as a "victim" state, and the most successful ethnic group in the US has likewise acquired victim status.

Indeed, the field of Holocaust studies is replete with nonsense if not sheer fraud.

War is not a means to an end, it is the end, whereas politics is merely the hiatus between wars.

It's utterly hypocritical for Israelis to wonder aloud why Palestinians don't pursue a non-violent strategy. One obvious reason is that, whenever they have, Israel brutally represses it.

People are motivated by the desires for privilege, for power, for profit. Those are not shocking revelations. Anyone who's had any experience in life knows these things.