The Murder of Aysenur Eygi

An Israeli soldier fatally shot an American citizen and peace activist, Aysenur Eygi, in the head on Friday while she was participating in a peaceful protest against an illegal Israeli settlement in the West Bank. Haaretz reports on what witnesses to the shooting saw:...

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Kursk, 1943; Kursk, 2024

Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. In July 1943, the Nazis launched a colossal assault at the Kursk salient on the eastern front. The Soviet Red Army was ready. After roughly two weeks of massive battles, the Red Army prevailed as the Nazi...

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World War One Made Adolf Hitler

Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. World War I made Adolf Hitler. Before the war, Hitler was aimless, a failed artist, essentially a nobody with little chance of rising in society.  The war gave him purpose as well as a respectable identity as...

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