Germany’s new Chancellor Friedrich Merz recently extended his wide-ranging record of duplicity by throwing Israel to the wolves, accusing it and not Hamas of killing civilians and endangering children. It’s the latest betrayal of Israel by the political establishment of a country that was founded with a mandate to help safeguard the Jewish state, notes Sabine Beppler-Spahl in The European Conservative.
At Least He Paid his Losing Bet
Paul Ehrlich, author of the spectacularly incorrect 1968 best-seller The Population Bomb, recently died at 93. Despite his longevity, Ronald Bailey points out in Reason, Ehrlich did not live to see even one of his numerous apocalyptic predictions come true. The world’s population certainly grew, but not merely larger, richer and fatter too. Most famously, Ehrlich once bet economist Julian Simon that the world was approaching economic collapse – but in 1990 had to mail Simon a cheque.
