A Proposed UNSC Ceasefire Plan For Gaza
The attempt to resolve the ongoing, albeit highly uneven, exchange of fire between Israel and Gaza has now reached the United Nations Security Council (UNSC). The draft proposal, initially pushed by...
View ArticleIran Nuclear Talks: The Price of Failure
Once upon a time, it seemed that the Obama Administration had held off opponents in Congress as well as pressure from Israel in order to press forward with negotiations with Iran. It seemed that...
View ArticleFear Trumps Morality
Fear truly is the mind-killer. It has a way, when intentionally stoked and directed at some enemy, of killing a lot of people as well. In Israel, the Jewish graffiti on a Palestinian home bombardment...
View ArticleNew Report: From Crisis to Catastrophe, The Situation of Minorities in Iraq
In the United States, we seem to be surrounded by irrational hysteria these days. Two, perhaps three cases of ebola within our borders have Click on the image above to download the full report...
View ArticleThe US Must Do Less To Resolve the Israel-Palestine Conflict
Former American diplomat Aaron David Miller is a frequent and worthwhile contributor to US foreign policy discussions in both Washington and the news media. His long career in Middle East diplomacy and...
View ArticleOperation ClusterFuck
Chas Freeman, former US Ambassador to Saudi Arabia and thirty-year veteran of the United States’ foreign service delivered a speech today that Ambassador Chas W. Freeman everyone in the United States...
View ArticleWhy Is Netanyahu Targeting Abbas for the Har Nof Massacre?
This past Tuesday saw the latest in a horrifyingly long line of atrocities in Jerusalem. Two armed Palestinians entered a synagogue in the Har Nof neighborhood, killed five Israeli civilians and...
View ArticleThe Danger Of Trump’s Hasty Exit From Syria
When Donald Trump announced that he was immediately removing all U.S. troops from Eastern Syria, I was surprised by the reaction. There was near glee in anti-war corridors. The initial response is...
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