Common sense will apparently prevail. The government has agreed to comply with Israel’s Supreme Court that some 200 men, women and children must be evacuated from forty homes built on … Read More AN ISRAELI SETTLEMENT ‘TOO FAR’
Palestinian Issues
OBAMA CONDUCTED U.S. FOREIGN POLICY LIKE A BUDDHIST MONK
In the final days of US President Barack Obama’s second term, it is time to sum up his foreign policy. Obama has done his damnedest to keep America out of … Read More OBAMA CONDUCTED U.S. FOREIGN POLICY LIKE A BUDDHIST MONK
ISRAELI MESSAGE TO TRUMP FOREIGN POLICY TEAM
Does Israel now have two Prime Ministers – one de jure but the other de facto? Gone are the days when Time magazine crowned Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu ‘King of … Read More ISRAELI MESSAGE TO TRUMP FOREIGN POLICY TEAM
ISRAEL – WHAT WENT WRONG? YOM KIPPUR 2016
Israeli M48 tanks, wrecked in the 1973 Yom Kippur War, on the banks of the Suez Canal in 1981. Destruction in the al-Qunaytra village in the Golan Heights, after the … Read More ISRAEL – WHAT WENT WRONG? YOM KIPPUR 2016
SHIMON PERES – (1923- 2016) DREAMER & VISIONARY
President Barack Obama welcomes Israeli President Shimon Peres in the Oval Office (2009) Peres and Hussein Yitzhak Rabin, Shimon Peres and Yasser Arafat receiving the Nobel Peace Prize following the … Read More SHIMON PERES – (1923- 2016) DREAMER & VISIONARY
Netanyahu & Abbas Talk Past Each Other At the UN
Bibi Netanyahu and Mahmoud Abbas addressing the general debate of the General Assembly’s seventy-first session. General Assembly Hall at the start of the Assembly’s seventy-first annual general debate. Jerusalem: At … Read More Netanyahu & Abbas Talk Past Each Other At the UN
An Israeli Reply to George Soros
Former Prime Minister Ehud Barak Two destroyed Syrian tanks, in front of a mosque in Azaz Jerusalem: This is the appalling reality of the Middle East that faces Israel today: … Read More An Israeli Reply to George Soros
Rio Olympics and New Middle East Politics
Or Sasson Rio 2016 Egypt Israel border near Eilat Yazidi Refugees Jerusalem: So what if an Egyptian judoka refused to shake hands after an Israeli defeated him? It was not … Read More Rio Olympics and New Middle East Politics
Israelis Split Over Trump or Clinton
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Netanyahu Faces Political Rebellion in Israel
Ongoing genocide of Yazidis in Syria… Yazidis are neither Muslim nor Arab, and follow a distinct faith that is abhorred by Daesh. At this very moment, Daesh is perpetrating genocide … Read More Netanyahu Faces Political Rebellion in Israel