Israel and related matters dominated this weeks’s most popular featured articles, with first place by a wide margin being held by Gilad Atzmon’s column suggesting that the bitter ideological divisions demonstrated by that country’s current elections signal its doom.  In particular, the enormous hostility between the religious and strongly anti-religious elements, which caused the collapse of the most recent governmental coalition, represents a breach that cannot be healed, with the rapidly-growing ultra Orthodox population set to dominate a country whose economic and political existence they cannot maintain.  This sentiment produced a massive outpouring of comments, already reaching 600, totaling 85,000 words.

Second place was held by the Saker’s column on French President Macron’s recent public declaration that the declining West must better recognize the importance of new world powers such as Russia and China, and thereby change the policies of isolation and confrontation that they have increasingly pursued in recent years, provoking over 30,000 words of comments.

In third place, but coming up rapidly was Chanda Chisala’s speculation that an examination of the relative academic performance of different racial groups in the U.S. suggests that Asian superiority is greatest at the younger age, and declines rapidly afterward, partly justifying the Harvard admissions policies that seem to discriminate against such applicants.  This controversial thesis quickly provoked over 600 contentious comments, totaling nearly 70,000 words.

Finally, fourth and sixth places were held by three additional articles relating to Israel and its relationship to America.  Former CIA Officer Philip Giraldi discussed the long history of Israeli espionage aimed at this country, with the most recent example being the spying on Donald Trump’s White House.  Sixth place was held by newcomer Whitney Webb with an article on the history of the rise of Christian Zionist movement.   Another of her articles was in seventh place focused on the newly released evidence of Israeli foreknowledge or involvement in the 9/11 attacks, as indicated by new documents released on the five Mossad agent agents caught celebrating in NYC at the time, and provoked over 450 comments, totaling more than 50,000 words.

Finally, in fourth place but coming up very fast was yesterday’s column by Paul Kersey on the brutal attack captured by video of a dozen black men on a single white in Minneapolis.  Certainly if the races were reversed, this sort of “hate crime” would be a story of international magnitude, but as such, it was received virtually no attention in the mainstream media, and the local authorities have even denied it had the racial overtones to warrant such a designation.