Slaughter in Egypt may signal civil war within Islam
The heinous attack that slaughtered at least 235 worshippers in a northern Sinai mosque in Egypt today could be a new and chilling twist in a nascent civil war within Islam in many locations around the...
View ArticleSaudi vows new Islamic alliance ‘will wipe terrorists from the earth’
Saudi Arabia’s powerful crown prince vowed to “pursue terrorists until they are wiped from the face of the earth” as officials from 40 Muslim countries gathered Sunday in the first meeting of an...
View ArticleIsrael loved the Sinai that is now a killing field
It was a bit of heaven; now it is a chunk of hell. Muslim extremists are killing each other in the wilderness where the Hebrews received the Law; in Israel, hands are wringing and hearts are breaking....
View ArticleIsrael’s foreign relations improving, SWU gala told
Charles Wax, left, questions Ambassador Dore Gold at StandWithUs dinner by Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Amid growing indignation over aggressive Palestinian tactics at universities throughout the...
View ArticleReport: Trump to recognize Jerusalem, embassy move to come later
US President Trump will recognize Jerusalem as the capital of the State of Israel in a speech tomorrow (Wednesday), The New York Times reported. According to the Times, Trump will also announce the...
View ArticleSeventy years after the Partition Resolution, is Zionism a success?
About the Nazi Holocaust, one Christian historian has written: “The fact that it could take place in the heart of Europe, in the middle of the 20th Century, carried out in the name of what had seemed...
View ArticleTrump Cuts Funding To U.N, After Israel Vote
The U.S. will cut its 2018 contributions to the United Nations by $285 million—nearly 25 percent—an announcement that comes days after more than 120 nations criticized the United States for its...
View ArticleJerusalem: an International City
Jerusalem is arguably the most important city in the world. It is certainly the most controversial, most fought-over city in the world. The city, founded 5000 years ago, has been attacked 52 times,...
View ArticleThe Syrian Crisis In a Nutshell
As the political noose keeps tightening around Trump’s neck, the situation in Syria could easily escalate out of control. In the last couple of days Russia has been making statements and taking action...
View ArticleThe U.S. Has Done Enough to Syria
“You break it, you bought it.” Colin Powell’s apocryphal “Pottery Barn Rule” — which was coined by neither Powell nor Pottery Barn — is still a decent warning to presidents who would engage in foreign...
View ArticleIs Trump throwing a match into the Middle East tinderbox?
WASHINGTON — The one area in which any president has almost complete latitude is foreign affairs. Lord save us. Lord save the world, actually. President Trump is making rash and risky moves that...
View ArticleUS embassy in Jerusalem opens amid violence: 4 essential reads
Palestinian protesters evacuate a wounded youth in the Gaza Strip. AP Photo/Adel Hana Danielle Douez, The Conversation On May 14, the day the U.S. embassy in Israel moved to Jerusalem, at least 55...
View ArticleThe Gaza Strip – What Next?
Most of you have encountered news and vivid photos of the recent Israeli-Gaza violence. It is a difficult issue to try to explain to anyone not intimately involved in the conflict. Most news and...
View ArticleThe Tragedy of Khan al-Amar
Image compliments of the Electronic Infatada This is a picture of the school girls of the Palestinian village of Khan al-Amar who will not only lose their school but also their homes. In the next few...
View ArticleA new world is dawning, and the US will no longer lead it
German Chancellor Angela Merkel, center, speaks with U.S. President Donald Trump, at the contentious G7 Leaders Summit in Canada in June. AP/Jesco Denzel/German Federal Government Gordon Adams,...
View ArticleWhy al-Qaida is still strong 17 years after 9/11
Tricia Bacon, American University School of Public Affairs Seventeen years ago, on Sept. 11, 2001, al-Qaida conducted the most destructive terrorist attack in history. An unprecedented onslaught from...
View ArticleHow prejudice against Israel hurts its young citizens
Israeli students Linda and Ron, both former IDF soldiers. Ron wears a name tag from Rancho Buenavista High School in Vista, CA where the two made a presentation prior to an interview with San Diego...
View ArticleJamal Khashoggi: Casualty of the Trump administration’s disregard for...
Last photo of Jamal Khashoggi alive — entering the Saudi Arabia embassy. David Mednicoff, University of Massachusetts Amherst The international crisis over whether top Saudi Arabian leadership murdered...
View ArticleDemocracy In Decline
In addition to the horrific episodes that have occurred in America recently to tarnish our democracy, the democratic process appears to be in decline around the world. Under the aegis of Donald Trump,...
View ArticleTrump’s Iran sanctions – another destructive adventure
The draconian tightening of punitive sanctions on Iran by the US alone starting today could not have come at a worse time for Middle East politics. They underline President Donald Trump’s determination...
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