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More Than a Bribe: Obama Surrenders Palestinian Rights

More Than a Bribe: Obama Surrenders Palestinian Rights

The Middle East policies of US President Barack Obama may well prove the most detrimental in history so far, surpassing even the rightwing policies of President George W. Bush. Even…

Paddling in the Bosphorus, Floating on the Nile

“To paddle through”, or “to remain afloat” are two antonyms in the politics of navigation of nations towards a destiny. In the former, the firm grip on the paddles is…

Lebanon’s Tribunal as Bludgeon

BEIRUT — “I’ve got these [expletive deleted] just where we want them Maura! Watch the 1000 slow cuts as we shred Hezbollah–who do they think they are? And we’ll do…

Al-Qaeda’s Christian Massacre — Aiding and Abetting the Occupation of Palestine

Couldn’t the Baghdad church massacre also be seen as an attempt to “subvert and fragment” Palestinian unity? With “brothers” like al-Qaeda, who needs enemies?…

A Follow Up on My Fifth Grade Essay: Education at Gunpoint

While the introduction to my “Education and Youth” essay was clichéd and I may not have known what many of the terms actually meant, its overriding sentiment remains as true…

On Foreign Affairs – Remaking the Middle East

The U.S. has been trying to remake the Middle East for quite a few decades now as it gradually took over the role of the British and French as the…

Is the American public about to toss Israel?

Ever so slowly over the past two decades, American attitudes toward Israel appear to be changing, according to some public opinion analysts.…

Another Baghdad Massacre: Iraqi Christians Are Already at Home

Every group of Iraqis has faced terrible devastation as a result of this war, the magnitude of which is only now beginning to be discovered.…

Canada Stands By Israel…

Harper’s comments express an ignorance and conceit -- and dishonesty -- placing him alongside the best hubris and rhetoric offered by his U.S. and Israeli compatriots. …

The Parcel Bomb Plot – Al-Qaeda’s Latest Christmas Gift to Israel

While Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) may have claimed responsibility for the parcel bomb plot, it’s worth considering how this latest Yemen-linked terror scare has been a gift to…

Conned by Democracy: The Middle East’s Stagnant ‘Change’

Democracy in the Middle East continues to be a hugely popular topic of discussion. Its virtues are tirelessly praised by rulers and oppositions alike, by intellectuals and ordinary people, by…

The Symbiosis Between Anti-Semitism & Zionism

The Symbiosis Between Anti-Semitism & Zionism

The raison d'etre for the establishment of the modern Zionist movement is that anti-Semitism is a pervasive and untreatable condition among Gentiles.…

Lebanon: What Were They Thinking?

What were the International Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) investigators imagining as they walked into Dr. Iman Charara's private obstetrics and gynecology clinic this week demanding personal information on her patients?…

Such is the Peace Process: Obama as a Salesman

It wouldn't be an exaggeration to claim that the resumption of peace talks between the Israeli government and the Palestinian Authority have thus far yielded nothing of value, at least…

Jeff Feltman’s ‘really great plan’

Jeff Feltman’s ‘really great plan’

Beirut is abuzz over some pretty bizarre events that have been unfolding the past few months concerning Hezbollah and the UN created International Tribunal for Lebanon, created in 2007 to…

Book Review: The Chosen Peoples

This is not a great book. Nor is it, in the one section, even a reasonable book. It does, however, raise some interesting ideas on what effect the belief in…

American Democracy: Pro-Israel Tweedledum and Tweedledee

Helen Keller’s pithy observation about American democracy being little more than a choice “between Tweedledum and Tweedledee” was never more true than in the upcoming midterm elections in the ninth…

Rejoinder to ‘Is UN Creation of Israel a Myth? Ask Foreign Policy Journal’

Rejoinder to ‘Is UN Creation of Israel a Myth? Ask Foreign Policy Journal’

In sum, neither INN nor Dr. Nisan have managed to point to even a single error in either fact or logic on my part in my essay. The facts are…

Lebanon’s Palestinian Civil Rights Campaign moves into the Christian Heartland

Civil rights for Lebanon's Palestinian refugees have been denied for too long.…

The Myth of the U.N. Creation of Israel

The Myth of the U.N. Creation of Israel

There is a widely accepted belief that United Nations General Assembly Resolution 181 "created" Israel, based upon an understanding that this resolution partitioned Palestine or otherwise conferred legal authority or…