The weather in Tripoli this New Year’s weekend is unseasonably bone chilling with heavy rains flooding the streets reminding this observer more of dreary London this time of year than the southern Maghreb coast of…
Category: Israel
A former CIA analyst says the notion that stirring up hostilities towards Iran will make Israel more secure will prove to be “the big mistake of the century.” “If this rhetoric spins out of…
Senior lawmaker Kazem Jalali says if faced with a threat Iran will definitely use the defensive potential of the strategic Strait of Hormuz. Pointing to the strategic importance of the Strait of Hormuz,…
Iraq was an equation with three unknowns. After the withdrawal of the US, one of the unknowns in this equation was resolved, leaving two parameters to compete with each other. Still, Iraq will be divided…
Imperial Feast One of the holidays celebrated by Jews doesn’t have Biblical roots. Hanukkah commemorates the inauguration of the Second Temple in Jerusalem during the 2nd century BC Maccabean Revolt. As such it is beyond…
I’ve written frequently about unacceptable political behaviour– wars, occupations, deception, hate–the negative things that make the news every day, and some things that never see the light of the media. A critic of mine…
“Our war there will be over. All of our troops will be out of Iraq,” President Barack Obama said in his Dec. 17 weekly radio address. But while combat troops are leaving, for now…
In the hands of this government, which mainly involve moving buildings built on private lands to ‘state lands’, have become instruments to deepen the occupation and obstruct the two-state solution. ******************************** January 02, 2012 “Haartez”…
January 02, 2012 “Daily Star” — BRITAIN is gearing up for fighting in Syria that could be bigger and bloodier than the battle against Gaddafi. The Ministry of Defence is drawing up secret plans for…
Speaking of democratic revolutions… Play dedicated in memorium of “Grovel” Havel for services to the Empire beyond the call of duty. _______________________________ Act 1, Scene 1 (A cafe in upper west…