Alexander Maistrovoy

Whose “friendship” is more dangerous?

"Another Tack: Kremlin or Canossa?" is the name of Sarah Honig's article in Jerusalem Post about Binyamin Netanyahu’s visit to Moscow. I agree with Sarah on everything, almost on everything, to be more precise.

Writing that was written: MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN

In the middle of the 15th century, the waters of the Lausanne lakes were flooded with bloodsuckers that afflicted the population of the city. To stop this misfortune, rich citizens asked for assistance from famous Heidelberg ecclesiastics. A criminal case was initiated against the contemptible creatures. Some of them were even brought to court to listen to the judgment. They were demanded to leave the lakes within three days. Ecclesiastics performed spells and rituals after which the bloodsuckers, as the annals claim, shamefully retired.

One country and three civilizations

Clinton is right: "Russians" in Israel don't really want peace, that kind of peace which Bill Clinton imposed on Serbs in Kosovo

“Samson Option”: choice in absence of choice?

"When people speak about human rights, everyone has in mind his own ones", a German scientist and publicist Wilhelm Schwebel wrote. His words perfectly reflect the issue of "breaking" the Gaza blockade. These actions are as related to human rights as Josef Stalin's "fight for peace".

Iran: Nuclear “Blitzkrieg”

The question is not whether Iran will get a nuclear weapon; it is about where and against whom it will use it Is the civilized community ready to reconcile with the Iranian nuclear bomb? There is only one answer to the question: it is, because it has no other options.

Jews in Holy Land? What Jews?

The Israeli government announced that it would include the Cave of the Patriarchs (Me'arat HaMachpelah) in Hebron and Rachel’s Tomb in Bethlehem as part of a comprehensive plan to preserve Israel’s national heritage and religious sites ("Moreshet"). The reaction of the Arab (and all Islamic) world to the decision has once again showed the real essence of the “Arab-Israeli conflict”, which actually is the holy war that Arabs had proclaimed against the Jews.

Want to crush your enemies? Wish their leaders … Nobel Prizes

I do not envy the country, whose leader becomes a Nobel Laureate. The majority of such leaders brought their peoples nothing, but misfortunes, failures, defeats and humiliations.

A pinnacle of self-destruction

It is difficult to say the clash of which civilizations Samuel Huntington meant. Those who think he wrote about Islamic civilization on the one part and the West on the other part, make a mistake. There is no such conflict, it is inherently impossible. The events of the latest decades show that the civilizations in question are far from clashing. On the contrary, they co-operate and complement one another.