What is the post Roman West? How does it differ from the Roman Empire?
Well, for example, under the Roman Empire the army was a professional force - it was the state.
The warbands of the Germanic chiefs were not the world of the Middle Ages either - the armies of the Middle Ages were Feudal, the [...]
Posts under ‘Judeophobia’
Did Charles the Bald help create the West - by accident.
Ken Livingstone
Has anti Jewish bigotry become mainstream amongst progressives in London? Jews are all rich are they? Money grubbers maybe? Tell me, do they make Passover bread with the blood of Christian children? Poison wells maybe? Or is that sort of claim still a bit extreme for the moment?
Pogrom anyone?
Why is Ken Livingston still a member [...]
Australia, 2011
Australia, free, open, tolerant. This is the country where I grew, this is the country I remember.
In the last few months, Andrew Bolt, a journalist prosecuted for expressing an opinion disliked by lefties – he dislikes racial classification laws and thinks they may be being scammed. This gets him compared to NAZIs by people who [...]
From Montesquieu to Voltaire - the corruption of the Enlightenment, thanks to Frederick the “Great”.
For centuries two of the standard attacks on the French Revolution have been the related attacks that it took liberty “too far” and that it applied principles rather than practical experience.
I will not, here, explore the debate of whether the above was Edmund Burke’s view of the French Revolution (I will simply say that I [...]
Quote of the Day
All over the world you can see Jewish memorials, Jewish monuments - they’re called cemeteries, in places where once were Jews and now are none. And that’s how anti-Semites like it.
Jews don’t need memorials, they need a living presence.
Mark Steyn
Logo-A-Go-go
This is the logo of the 2012 Olympics in London.
What does it look like to you?
Think about it…
Freebird!
I always laboured under the impression that the Israeli Air Force was one of the best in the world…
Saudi Arabian authorities have detained a vulture on suspicion of spying for Israeli intelligence agency Mossad – a charge Israel denies and calls Saudis to release the bird.
In what could spark tensions between the two Middle Eastern [...]
“Egyptian official” jumps the shark
Almost literally.
Disclaimer: Counting Cats in Zanzibar cannot be held responsible for damage to keyboards or monitors caused by beverages expelled from readers’ facial orifices upon reading linked articles.
Judeophobia
From Harrys Place: the BBC on the nature of anti-Semitism.
“Given that the principle of the Jewish state would be defended to the death by most if not all Jewish Israelis, to call for the dismantling of the Jewish state is to encompass the possibility of the wholesale death of its Jewish population. And if one [...]
Only Israel
The world cares nothing for Jewish blood.
UN
Remember Claire Short’s claim about how only the UN has moral authority to distribute aid following the tsunami? You know, when she implied that she would rather see people starve than the US providing support? Back when the US and Australia jumped in to help while the UN and EU sat there with their collective [...]
This will not work.
It starts well.
Gaza’s misery does not make Israel safer. Peace is impossible until the blockade is lifted and people can regain their dignity.
Agreed. The question is who is making Gazans miserable? Is it their neighbours or is it the Islamist gang who have ceased control of the place and are using it essentially as a [...]
Flotilla Choir
Seems the Israeli government have been pussied into apologising for circulating it.
The Reason Why
Cats flags up an excellent article by Melanie Phillips.
I must be getting Daily Mail in my anecdotage to have just typed that so I will now criticise it.
I can hardly disagree with Ms Phillips factually apart from on one thing (which I shall come to later) and she describes the opprobrium pored on [...]
Fantasy world
Melanie Phillips, or Mad Mel as the rabid anti-semites like to label her, makes a calm, honest and even handed assesment of the attitude shared by the stereotypical left, large chunks of the mass media and hysterical and genocidal neo-NAZI’s towards Israel.
The treatment being meted out to Israel is qualitatively and quantitatively different from the [...]
