February is America-Israel Friendship Month

Did the Nazis Kill Five Million Non-Jews? Five million is frequently cited as the number of non-Jews killed by the Nazis. The figure is inaccurate and was apparently an invention of famed Nazi-hunter Simon Wiesenthal. According to historian Deborah Lipstadt, he began to refer to “eleven million victims” of the Holocaust, six million Jews and five million non-Jews in the 1970s. Wiesenthal later admitted making up the figure to promote interest in the Holocaust among non-Jews. Lipstadt, says “he chose five million because it was almost, but not quite, as large as six million.” Click here to read more... Donate Today Will Trump’s Peace Plan Matter? and Trump’s Impossibly Pragmatic Peace Plan by Dr. Mitchell Bard Almost every US administration has come up with a peace plan, and they all have one thing in common — failure. The Trump plan will suffer the same fate. Still, it may be valuable by setting new baselines for negotiations that are in Israel’s favor. Why will the plan fail? Click here to read more...  The peace plan released by the president is the most sensible ever devised — and, simultaneously, the least sensible. Jared Kushner was right about two things: First, that all previous paradigms for pursuing peace failed; and second, that his team adopted a dramatically new one. As expected, a great hue and cry came from the Palestinians, the antisemites, Israel’s critics, the Arab lobby, the failed peace processors, many liberal Jews, and Democratic presidential candidates. We are also hearing the usual specious doomsday predictions of a new intifada and the Arab/Muslim world erupting. Click here to read more... Contact Dr. Bard for speaking engagements and interviews Travel Israel Religion New This Week Peace to Prosperity -- The Trump Peace Plan Approximately 97% of Israelis in the West Bank will be incorporated into contiguous Israeli territory, and approximately 97% of Palestinians in the West Bank will be incorporated into contiguous Palestinian territory. Land swaps will provide the State of Palestine with land reasonably comparable in size to the territory of pre-1967 West Bank and Gaza. Click here to read more... J’Accuse...! (I Accuse) Émile Zola, an influential French novelist, wrote an open letter to Félix Faure, President of the French Republic accusing the government of anti-Semitism in the Dreyfus Affair. It was published January 13, 1898, on the front page of the Paris daily, L’Aurore. Click here to read more... Check our ongoing updates on 2020 presidential candidates February is America-Israel Friendship Month US-Israel Relations Wing  Quizzes February Israel Quiz Test your knowledge of Israel. Click here to take the quiz February Holocaust Quiz How much do you know about the Holocaust? Click here to take the quiz Download the Jewish Virtual Library App!  Click Here to Download on the Google Play Store  Click Here to Download on the Apple App Store  Support AICE When You Shop at Amazon! When shopping at Amazon, please be sure to shop using Amazon Smile, and select AICE as your chosen charity. Its an easy way to help out, and a portion of your purchase supports our projects. Click Here to Donate Today  You can also text rosh2019 to 71777 to donate Thank You for Your Support.  ‌  ‌  ‌

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