Michael Kuttner

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Postponing the inevitable again

If ever you needed an example of how misguided appeasement inevitably makes a situation worse, the current terror from Gaza is the perfect proof…writes...

November – a month to remember

For Australians and New Zealanders, the month of November is remembered for fireworks and horse racing…writes Michael Kuttner. The former is a remnant of the...

Squalls on the horizon

We are slowly transitioning from summer to autumn and if past performance is anything to go by winter will arrive with a bang…writes Michael...

Chelm is alive and well…writes Michael Kuttner

Chelm was a mythical Yiddish-speaking town which had a disproportionate share of shlemiels and shlemazels whose mind-boggling stupidity provided an endless source of merriment...

On the frontline

The Jewish People have been on the frontline throughout their long three thousand years history…writes Michael Kuttner. After seventy years of re-established independence, Israel, the...

Annual UN carnival

Coinciding with the High Holyday period in our calendar is the annual carnival of farce and hypocrisy known as the UN General Assembly…writes Michael...

From Munich to Oslo and beyond

If anyone believed that the New Year would usher in an era of peace and harmony they should have had their fantasies rudely shattered…writes Michael...

Annual accounting…writes Michael Kuttner

Well run businesses and enterprises undertake annual stocktaking in order to assess past performances, current achievements and future prospects. In the Jewish religious calendar the...

Left unchallenged this sickness is fatal

Any malady which is not seriously treated can soon develop into major life threatening diseases with fatal results…writes Michael Kuttner. As every doctor can testify...

Hamastan – enough already

If you lived next to neighbours whose sole aim was to murder you and in furtherance of that objective burnt your property on a...