The bartender at the Communist-themed pub in former East Berlin scrunches up his face and readjusts his glasses. Lenin looms on the wall beside him. “This is from Berlin?” I ask him. “No, it’s from a little town, you’ve probably never heard of it,” he says of the bottle of doppelkorn liquor he has…
Category: Israel
Cold War Files: The Confusing Times of the Six Day War
During the Six Day War pitting Israel against its Arab neighbors in 1967, Americans were thrust into the crisis — even though they weren’t directly involved in the fighting. After Israel pre-emptively attacked Egyptian forces on June 5, 1967, much of the Arab world came to Cairo’s aid. Recently-declassified messages describe American fliers handling their own chaotic…
Combatives: From the IDF to Hollywood; Krav-Maga’s Meteoric Rise
The Israeli close-combat method shoulders its way into civilian life as the ultimate form of self-defense Krav Maga, the close-combat method conceived in secrecy by the Israeli army, has kicked its way firmly into civilian life and with Hollywood’s help, has become the ultimate form of self-defense. “The idea is to be able to quickly…
Israel Watch: IDF Confiscates Antique Weapon During Raid in West Bank
Times are hard for everybody right now…even terrorist in the West Bank who are so hard up for weapons they have resorted to using a 17th Century Black Powder Blunderbuss.-SF Israeli troops arrested 16 Palestinian suspects, including two senior Hamas members, in raids around the West Bank Tuesday night and seized what appears to be…
Iran’s “Soft War” Against America
Before you read this article, be sure and check this ARTICLE out too which details how members of the U.S. State Dept, namely John Kerry and his entourage of ass clowns encourage Iran to “stay quiet” on missile test so as not “upset the region”. In other words, don’t advertise your ability to strike Israel…
Examining Terrorist Tactics: Jihad On the Fly? ISIS Using Homing Pigeons To Communicate
Jordan intercepts bird carrying messages between terror operatives as group attempts to bypass Western intel gathering its channels of communication are increasingly monitored by coalition forces, the Islamic State is reportedly turning to low-tech solutions in its efforts to avoid detection. The Telegraph reported that homing pigeons bearing messages between IS operatives were recently captured…
Holocaust History: Mapping the Holocaust
JERUSALEM — Nini Ungar clearly recalled that Friday in February 1942 when the Nazis loaded her, her husband and her parents on a cattle cart and transferred them, standing upright, to the railway station in Vienna. She was in her mid-20s and did not yet know that she was pregnant. The family had already spent…
Holocaust History: 1940’s Political Cartoons Warned U.S. of Holocaust
Proof of America’s awareness of genocide against European Jews lay in the funny papers, where cartoonists used pens to eviscerate US politicians’ apathy NEW YORK — Long before becoming a beloved children’s author, Dr. Theodor Seuss Geisel wielded his pen for more sober reasons: He wanted to alert the American public to the horrors of…
Holocaust History & Book Review: A Guest At The Shooters Banquet
Lithuania’s Holocaust skeletons come to light in Rita Gabis’s book, which explores the 220,000 Lithuanian Jews killed during WWII — and the people who let it happen Five years ago, Rita Gabis, a poet and teacher based in New York, discovered a family secret: from 1941 to 1943 her grandfather had been the chief of…
Crusader Corner: France Refuses to use Israeli Data Mining Tech That Could Have Helped Prevent Paris Massacre
It appears that France’s combination of non-existent immigration laws combined with a fear of being labeled “islamophobes” is not enough…they had to throw in good ole’ fashioned Anti-Semitism just for good measure, which has created the perfect breeding ground for terrorism to run rampant. Sound Familiar America? -SF Better to shun and demonize Israel than…