Posts Tagged: Neville Chamberlain
Iraq Anniversary Reminds Us That Avoiding War Isn’t Always Wrong
JNS.org - As a general rule of thumb, it’s always best to avoid analogies to Adolf Hitler, Winston Churchill and Neville Chamberlain. The trio of...
Purim or Munich?
Purim is this coming week. It's a story that can be read as being about an ineffectual, drunken leader - a disaster just waiting to...
Munich to Munich: A Symbol of Betrayal or Warning
The hash tag "Munich" evokes a key signpost to World War II. For the Jewish collective memory it symbolizes betrayal: - September 1938, Neville Chamberlain's kowtow...
Explaining the Roots of Islamic Terror
War is hateful, but when pitted against murderous aggressors, war must be fought. Northwestern Europe has not learned the lesson of the Chamberlain path to World...
Nuclear Peace With Iran in Our Time: Is This Our Chamberlain Moment?
The deal that has been offered to Iran—to soften some sanctions in return for a promise by the mullahs to preserve the status quo with...
Obama and Rouhani: Securing Peace…For a Time
It turns out that peace for our time was but a phone call away. Late last week, a breakthrough conversation was held between U.S. President...
Deja Vu: ‘Peace in Our Time’
"Peace in Our Time" was proclaimed by Neville Chamberlain in 1938 in defense of his disastrous Munich Agreement with Hitler. History testifies that...
Europe Prays to Paper Peace, Paper God
Cavemen prayed to stones and talismans, but Europeans worship paper gods. Europeans have a bad habit of holding up paper agreements as if they guarantee peace,...
Red Lines Save Lives
Just like the role of red lights in intersections, so would "red lines" reduce the probability of a military collision with a nuclear Iran....
Shimon Peres, “The View,” and German Soccer
Shimon Peres had a simply awful appearance on "The View" Wednesday morning - the 89 year old President of "start-up nation", in a...
