Day: December 15, 2017

Israel Invites Saudi Crown Prince to Mediate Palestine Peace Talks

December 15, 2017 Diplomacy

Saudi newspapers have reported that Israel has invited Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to their country to lead peace negotiations between Israel and Palestine as a sign of the rapidly warming relati…

China Threatens a State of War with the US Over “Taiwan”

December 15, 2017 Diplomacy

Donald Trump appears to have crossed an age-old but still highly relevant red line with China, as he signed this year’s National Defense Authorization Act. The Act includes a provision saying that the…

Israeli-Saudi Clash with Iran on Syrian Soil is Pretty Much Inevitable

December 15, 2017 Opinion

As was expected, once Moscow and Washington started disputing who attained victory over ISIS in Syria, the militants of this terrorist organization decided that they would need to demonstrate that it’…

It’s Personal: How Trump Betrayed Both Abbas and Abdullah of Jordan

December 15, 2017 Opinion

On 21 August 1969, an Australian citizen called Denis Rohan set fire to an 800-year-old wooden pulpit, a gift to al-Aqsa mosque from the Islamic hero Saladin (1137-1193), who led the military campaign…

Russia’s Military Withdrawal will Prompt President Assad to “Compromise”

December 15, 2017 Opinion

Russia has every right to withdraw most of its Aerospace Forces from Syria following Daesh’s defeat, with one of the most immediate consequences of this move being that it will prompt President Assad …

Kushner and Saudi Crown Prince… the Wunderkinds Wreak Havoc

December 15, 2017 Opinion

Donald Trump’s rash declaration of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel is so out of whack with global opinion and decades of international legal rulings, one has to surmise that the initiative stems fr…

Trump’s First Year Sets Record for U.S. Special Ops – Deployed to 149 Countries in 2017

December 15, 2017 Opinion

“We don’t know exactly where we’re at in the world, militarily, and what we’re doing,” said Senator Lindsey Graham, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, in October. That was in the wake of…

Patriarchy: The Natural Foundation of Eurasian Society

December 15, 2017 Opinion

The differing societal and family roles performed by men and women approximate the self-evident physical differences that exist between them – the two equally important masculine and feminine halves o…