The Attack on Hebron (1929) and More

Orthodox Jews not allowed to hold a large funeral, limited to 6 people by the police. At the time of the Sukkot-Simchat Torah holidays, the Yeshurun Synagogue was asked not to hold a large procession and it complied with the police. The blowing of the shofar was prohibited. Weak police force. Poor intelligence network. Largely …

Zionists and the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem

“One of the preachers made a nationalist speech calling on the Islamic faithful to fight against the Jews to the last drop of blood….”                                   August 23, 1929 in Jerusalem “mufti al-Husseini urged his community to keep the peace.”         from Tom Segev One Palestine Complete That quote should sound quite familiar in 2021 with …

Ivanka Trump, Nikki, and Marjorie: True Repugnicans

I will get to that shortly but I just read two paragraphs about Mussolini’s Italy which go back to 1925, almost a century ago. There were people fighting for workers’ rights in Italy before much of the competition was extinguished. And there were divisions among those people just as there still were divisions among the …

Police and the Capitol Attack : Learning from History

 “This remains one of the largest police shootouts in U.S. history with a reported total of over 9,000 rounds being fired (4,000 by the SLA and 5,000 by police). Every round fired by SLA members at the police missed the officers. There were no casualties among law enforcement, firefighters and civilians.”                                     Los Angeles 1975 …

Mussolini’s Kind of America

“I could have shut parliament down and constitute an exclusively Fascist administration.”                                                   Benito Mussolini Mussolini’s world has not left us. America First is in love with America. Mussolini was, for a while, in love with America including Italian-Americans, Woodrow Wilson, American military power, and its industrialization. Mussolini contracted the COVID-19 of its time, the …