Which nations in the Middle East should be considered our allies? This one isn’t my worst, but it definitely startled me awake last night: It was September 11, 2001. Obama had been elected President of the United States and had just begun his 9th month of presidency. I reflected on all the change th ...
Press TV The European Parliament hits back at a group of Rabbis for using the ‘anti-Semitism’ label in their efforts to shun a gathering of EU leaders in Brussels. The EU Parliament said on Monday that the move by the Conference of European Rabbis (CER) to boycott the event, which brought political ...
Hamas did not create Israel. The United Nations paved the way for the creation of 1947-48 Israel. And a Zionist government was prepared to step in and lead the newly created country of Israel. The birth of Israel coincided with the death of Palestine. The United Nation’s idea of a forced-sharing of ...
A superb and balanced documentary some years ago from the BBC (of all places) and PBS, The Fifty Years War: Israel and the Arabs, about Israel’s creation and the Arab-Israeli conflict since. It also contains some fascinating interviews with both Arabs and Israelis who were involved in the fighting, ...