יום שבת, ט׳ אלול תשפ״וSaturday, August 22, 2026
Follow Us
Daniel Greenfield is an Israeli born blogger and columnist, and a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. His work covers American, European and Israeli politics as well as the War on Terror. His writing can be found at http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/ These opinions do not necessarily reflect the opinion of The Jewish Press.
Read More
Most governments subsidize or price control some necessities to win over the underclass... or at least keep them from burning down everything in sight.
Truly old cities become fossilized, but they still always seem on the verge of being tipped over.
Any ideology whose logic is followed to its final conclusion leads to a horrifying and unlivable society.
Socialism, like most systems of government derived from it, has enshrined control as an end in and of itself.
In 2008, Obama ran to the left of Clinton on national security. There are signs that this time around Hillary Clinton will try to run to the left of Obama.
American exceptionalism emerged out of a society which empowered the creative talents of the individual but through the simple virtue of leaving men alone to do their work.
Stalin famously told his mother that he was the new Czar, transmuting collectivist revolution into the egotistical authoritarianism of one man. Obama has managed the same trick.
Now the Obama Administration is allowing history to repeat itself with more humanitarian interventions and smart strikes that overlook the real threat growing on the horizon.
No matter how many minority voters Cory Booker brings to the polls, there is no conceivable way that Christie could lose this election.
Few figures in American political life have been as consistently wrong as often as John Kerry. The former Senator bet on every Communist leader and Middle Eastern tyrant he could find only to watch the wheels of history roll over his mistakes. And now as Secretary of State, Kerry is at it again. In between […]
Instead of passing big laws, there will be lots of small laws. The old totalitarians would have outlawed suicide. The new totalitarians outlaw Tylenol.
Like a band that only knows one song, politicians only know one response to Islamic terrorism. They wall off that vast majority of Muslims who did not actually come down to Woolwich and hack at a soldier with a machete and did not fly two planes into the World Trade Center from those who actually […]
Republicans would be foolish to give up on minority voters, but even more foolish to give up on low- income white voters.
What infuriates New York Times reporters and State Department trolls alike is that Israelis can go for hours and even days without contemplating the tortures prepared for them.
To assume that your opponents have any decency, as the Republicans habitually do, is to be left behind in Politics 1.0.
The media loved Obama, but it discovered early on that he did not love it back.
The progressive consolidation imagines that organization can contain the messier side of man.
Benghazi isn't likely to keep Hillary out of the Democratic field in 2016, but after 2008, she is justifiably paranoid.
Muslim hearts and minds are the obsession of the policymakers of the dying West, but who cares about the hearts and minds of the men and women who defend us.
Whether or not amnesty comes, the United States of America is becoming too much like Mexico; a society of limited possibilities and diminished social mobility.
The left understands that it is working against natural emotions of loyalty and loss, and so it uses deception.
Few of those dancing in the circle passing around the fire know what they are truly commemorating and yet the act is its own commemoration.
The Afghan soldiers murdering American soldiers often do it unprompted and sometimes even without any prior planning.
If the fathers of Europe would like to see a future for their children, then they must stop bringing crocodiles home to their birthday parties.
There is no need for Obama to play Therapist-in-Chief. It's not his job, even if he is better at it than he is at his real job.
There was no such clear dividing line when September 11 faded from memory and we returned to a September 10 world.
The dust is the memory of ages and the children shall always return to the dust of their ancestors.
The urban political machine has gone national. It's here. It's there. It's everywhere.
We must have peace in our time, the peacemakers say. And Israel must provide it.
Are we on an inevitable evolutionary trajectory rising up or are we doomed to repeat dark ages, progress and then dark ages again?
Criticizing terror as a means while approving of its ends leads to absurdity.
Under Clinton, the anti-war business was booming on the fringe, but the news media never deigned to show up and inflate rally counts the way they did once Bush was in office.
The left's deconstruction of social institutions is not a quest for equality, but for destruction.
In the free market, money made you king. But under socialism, money just buys you access and leverage.
The argument that democracy had made the Muslim world dysfunctional was always chancy.
Schools across the country are banning not the gun, but the idea of the gun.
Social thinking is not concerned with solving problems by tackling them, but by transforming society so that the problems no longer exist.
Unlike the militarization of civilian law enforcement, military drones are not a threat to Americans.
Like Chavez, Obama presides over a poorer country whose poor are convinced that he is the only thing standing between them and absolute poverty.
Obamerica will be known as a party country, a good place to buy the good things if you are one of the sons of the rich or are a tourist from a rich country.
The American foreign policy error was to assume that the political grievances of the Arab Street could be appeased with democracy.
It is very doubtful that Obama, whose big plan for Afghanistan was to copy the Bush plan for Iraq that he denounced in the Senate, has a backup plan. Brennan certainly does not.
It's not always clear what the Israel Lobby's accomplishments really consist of.
Tinseltown is pretending to be artistic and creative, even while both qualities are dead as doornails.
When a civilization destroys its families, then it destroys itself.
While the New Age Jews sneer at the Holocaust obsession, Jews know that the past in all its awful terrors is a map and that forgetting it carries a terrible price.
If only Iran began developing the world's biggest chocolate bar, then the bombing raids would begin as soon as the chocolate enrichment process reached the caramel-nougat line.
What infrastructure achievement has the shovel-ready administration managed to achieve?
Instead of the Latino vote, the Republican Party would be wiser to concentrate on the Chinese and the Indian vote, two groups that are easier to sell on the Republican agenda.
The entertainment industry is too big and powerful, but that will change. What will not change is that the nation is losing its values.
People are not mere machines who repeat back what they are given, but nor are ideas empty signals shouted into a void.
The Republican Party of 2012 looks a lot like the Democratic Party of '88. It's outdated and running on fumes.
Our military has to become less American and more European, less imperial and more multilateral.
It makes a difference that we have people in government who can show why and what happened in Benghazi, in Cairo and across the region.
Conservative movements and parties cannibalize themselves.
Republicans who try to adapt to liberal values are pursuing a dead end.
The media would rather spend its time lamenting Israel's fall to the far right by covering the rise of a party that says the twenty year old peace process has failed.
While the American Democratic Party may not have an official anthem, the British Labour Party does.
The Left has created an endless number of professional openings for professional idealists.
Prohibition is long gone but the consequences of it are still with us today.
The ability to perceive and make difficult choices is fundamental to the survival of a country.
The economy decides if our bodies have a future. The values economy decides whether it will have a soul.
In another time and place, a place called America, an attack on an American diplomatic mission would have been considered an act of war.
Offending Islam has become a national security issue involving all levels of government.
The glorious day of the inglorious man is here. And someone else is paying. Any someone else who isn't him.
The Star and Crescent flying at the World Trade Center did not prevent it from being targeted.
Crowd culture expects everyone to follow the leader, to join the meme, to move with the flow, but that is something that crazy people cannot do.
If you believe that people are basically good, then they can be trusted with an AR-15.
America is a great country, but we can be an even greater country if we just banned everything... for the children.
Both the Left and the shooters agree that the people you are shooting at should not have guns.
The Left seeks to create a society where everyone is a lab monkey except the experts running the experiments.
Telling apart the right Syrian rebels from the wrong Syrian rebels is tricky. The Free Syrian Army, once hailed as a moderate secular organization, has more Al Qaeda in it than the dirt in Tora Bora.
The issue isn't really guns. Guns are how we misspell evil.
Sixty-four years is a long time for oil to burn, especially when the black oil next door seems so much more useful to the empires and republics across the sea.
Can American traditionalists quadruple their numbers in 40 years?
The Salafi political victories, militia victories and terror attacks are all part of the same phenomenon, and it is about time that we confronted it for what it is.
Chanukah commemorates the physical and spiritual resistance that is required of us sooner or later in all times.
Americans weren't ready for a reversal after four years. Will Egyptians be ready to cast down Morsi after a much shorter period?
Forget the cluster bomb and the mine, the poison gas shell and even tailored viruses.
To the Muslim world, democracy did not mean individualism, it meant majority rule.
The government middle class is the most hopeless middle class in all of history. It aspires to nothing and it dreams of nothing.
The government class is being led by liars and fools who see it as a lever for upending and taking over a working class society.
America needs a foreign policy that is bigger than its defensive needs but smaller than progressive ambitions of global citizenship.
Without the individual, the ballot box is only a tool for collectivist impulses and identities.
Only by resisting the noose, can Israel survive. Only by fighting to free its hands, can it resist.
The difference between victory and defeat often comes down to morale.
Hamas is not interested in being engaged. Its goal is the destruction of Israel.
Israel is a sideline in a regional struggle by fractured populations who are divided by ethnicity and religion, language and natural resources, to unite into a single commonality.
Once upon a time it was the objective of the military to win wars. Now the objective of the military is to avoid incidents.
Not long after Qatar's leader paid a visit to Hamas, this latest war began.
The key to winning the game is in the numbers. Demographics.
Are we going to be Hamiltonians, Jeffersonians or Jacksonians? The question is what do we want?
Come right in and step right up. See the bright lights and the oddities of nature. Inside folks, for the low price of twenty-two trillion dollars, you can see Binders of Women, Team Big Bird and entire reams of green windmills and fields full of bayonets and horses. Here lies become the truth and everything is full of sugar. And the highlight of the show with be Barack, the Exotic Prince from the Wilds of Indonesia and Kenya, with a special appearance by Oprah and a hologram of JFK. Here in the Carnival of Fools, the party never stops and no one ever has to pay the bill.
Now that we have lost the election of 2012, where our champion, a third-rate imitation of Ronald Reagan, without either his charm or his principles, who believed in absolutely nothing except being the best salesman he could be; let's pause to reflect on all the things we lost out on through his defeat. When we lose something, a relationship or a job, the grief comes from what we thought we had and what we imagined it was, not from what it truly was. Perspective means getting a true sense of what we had and what we never had to begin with. So let's look at what we might have had with President Mitt Romney.
Readers will notice that my blog, Sultan Knish, did not predict any Romney landslides. It did not engage in empty cheers or promise that he would win half the country and restore moral leadership. That's not what this site is about. This site is about the hard truths and now as we sit in the dark, let's pass out some of those around the room. We can blame Chris Christie, Sandy or Romney's last debate performance. But let's look at the actual election.
There are plenty of ways to cast the divisions between parties and movements, but the elemental act of voting divides rhetoric from motive. Obama called voting the best revenge, because for a sizable portion of his base that's exactly what voting is. Their votes are a violent act, a spiteful assault on a country that they can never participate in for economic or cultural reasons. Change for them is not a positive program, but a negative assault on the national majority. Bankrupting the country by robbing it for their own benefit is their revenge.
Every now and then an email comes my way warning about the day when the government unleashes the military against its own citizens. This day isn't likely to come because for one thing the current regime is not particularly fond of the military. The Obama Administration isn't inflicting massive cuts on the military, cutting their health care and pushing veteran officers out the door because it likes the military as an institution. It doesn't.
In Union Square the chess players sit alone under the statue of George Washington waiting for a game. A Latino family, father, mother and son, sit on the sidewalk holding cardboard signs and singing. “I’ll be your friend, when you’re not strong.” The big chain stores are closed but the bodegas are open and Muslim and Chinese storekeepers charge up to ten dollars for a gallon of water. New York City in blackout, in short, is much like New York City as usual.
The story of how the Obama Administration failed to secure a U.S. consulate and then failed to send in support while it was under attack may turn out to be the biggest scandal of this administration. But that will only happen if Benghazigate is the subject of a thorough and rigorous investigation. And that means basing stories on facts or on reliable reports, rather than on speculation and internet rumors that no one would take seriously in any other context.
One-hundred and thirteen years ago, Rudyard Kipling wrote a poem about the American enterprise in the Philippines. The title of that poem has since become a byword for racist colonialism and yet its text is a sardonic recitation of the dim virtues of the "Savage wars of peace." "Go bind your sons to exile, To serve your captives' need;" Kipling wrote. "To seek another's profit, And work another's gain. Fill full the mouth of Famine, And bid the sickness cease." This moral imperialism has never gone away, though it is no longer thought of in racial terms. For over a hundred years, the United States has gone on trying to feed and cure the world, sacrificing for others and seeing nothing in return.
August 21, 2026 
