A Donald Trump 14 Points for Israel and Palestinians
President Trump should emulate Woodrow Wilson and his landmark 14 points for peace by setting out 14 basic terms and conditions for a sane and lasting deal for Israel, the Palestinians, and the region as a whole. This is what those points should be
- 18 May 2017
Why the Arab Spring really turned into an Arab Winter
Fomenting conspiracy theories and blaming someone else for one's own misfortunes is a national sport in the Arab world. The Arab Spring's failure has deep roots in the political culture, and the West needs to understand that until that changes the prospect for an enlightened politics will remain remote
- 24 April 2017
Trump's policy and Israel's
With Hamas on the warpath, and Iran wanting a base in Syria, eager to fight Israel on the Golan Heights, and preparing to gain a stronger foothold in Middle Eastern affairs, an entente cordial between President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu is essential
- 10 March 2017
Scrolls tell the truth in the Middle East
From Holocaust denial to efforts in international organizations such as UNESCO to detach proven Jewish heritage in the Middle East from the State of Israel, the truth will always out, and the scrolls don't lie
- 16 February 2017
An indulgent, damaging MidEast "peace" conference
The so called "peace conference" in Paris is nothing of the sort. It is yet another event that confirms the world's self-imposed ignorance about the real cause of the Israel-Palestine conflict which is Palestinian rejectionism
- 15 January 2017
Bravo Britain for slamming Obama over Israel
Britain, to the fury of the lame-duck Obama administration, has called out John Kerry for his wishy washy approach to terrorism against Israel. This is an important move, and we should applaud it, for all our sakes
- 30 December 2016
A miracle in Bossey
After the Holocaust in Europe, Christians started to do the tough work of unpacking the relationship between the New Testament, Christian theology and the history of antisemitism in Western civilization. It is time for scholars at Al Azhar University to start doing the heavy lifting and confront the relationship between Islamic sources and the catastrophe unfolding in the Middle East today
- 10 October 2016
Israeli settlements are not the obstacle to peace
Honest, objective analysis would indicate that the main obstacle to peace, and to a Palestinian state is Palestinian intransigence and resort to violence. Settlements are a red herring for obsessive and irrational Israel haters
- 9 September 2016
Israel: The bravest democracy of our time
Against all the odds, against history itself (?), against the hatred of all hatreds, the Jewish state has survived and prospered. In the week of its 68th birthday, all free men and women of the world unite to say: God bless Israel, bravest democracy of our time
- 14 May 2016
UNESCO's resolution of hate against Israel
It is shameful that UNESCO, set up for peaceful purposes to promote intercultural dialogue, has been misused for political purposes. Its one sided resolutions against Israel and its citizens demonstrate it has become a vehicle for hatred, not peace
- 11 May 2016
Anti-Semitism and Labour's Hitler problem
Has anti-Semitism now entered the ideological bloodstream of the British left? Bizarrely, Adolf Hitler now seems the favorite reference of the left wingers in the Labour Party. Where will the lunacy end?
- 3 May 2016
Bernie Sanders and his strange take on Israel
Bernie Sanders, for all his fulminations about the “establishment”, political and financial, is on the Israel issue the epitome of fashionable, and sometimes bigoted, political correctness
- 18 April 2016
UK Labour, the Church, and cancerous anti-Semitism
Great Britain is in a mind-boggling mess over anti-Semitism. This, of course, is related to bigotry against Israel. Can the dilemmas be resolved, or will the cancer continue to metastasize?
- 12 April 2016
Palestinian leaders' self interest militates against peace
The unspoken reality is that Palestinian elites dare not forge real peace with Israel because it will expose them as having wasted the lives of their people for decades to acquire something Israel was always ready to offer anyway
- 3 January 2016
The UN General Assembly: Prejudice without pride
The UN General Assembly recently passed six resolutions on the MidEast, taking account of ISIS, terrorism, the slaughter in Syria. Or rather it did nothing of the sort. It ignored all the real problems and sank into prejudiced and bigoted attacks on Israel
- 5 December 2015
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