Benjamin Netanyahu’s Nightmare Comes True as Putin Crushes His Plans

Benjamin Netanyahu’s Nightmare Comes True as Putin Crushes His Plans

Benjamin Netanyahu’s nightmare is coming true. The guards of the Islamic Revolution of Iran and Hezbollah fighters prepare to attack Israel by using Syria as a springboard. The Israeli Prime Minister shared the “terrible news” on August 23, 2017 during a meeting with Vladimir Putin in Sochi (the meeting lasted for almost 2.5 hours). Despite…

Why Can’t Wheeler-Dealer Trump Cut a Deal with North Korea?

Why Can’t Wheeler-Dealer Trump Cut a Deal with North Korea?

The United States and South Korea are currently engaged in large-scale, joint-military war games that simulate an invasion of the North, the destruction of the DPRK’s nuclear weapons sites, and a “decapitation operation” to take out the supreme leader, Kim Jong-un. The objective of the operation is to intensify tensions between North and South thereby…

The Balfour Declaration: A Study in British Duplicity

The Balfour Declaration: A Study in British Duplicity

It’s been nearly 100 years since the document changed the course of history, yet Britain still fails to acknowledge Israel’s denial of the Palestinian right to national self-determination – and its own complicity. The Balfour Declaration, issued on 2 November 1917, was a short document which changed the course of history. It committed the British…

Let’s Call “Trump’s Generals” What They Are: A Military Junta

Let’s Call “Trump’s Generals” What They Are: A Military Junta

Trump is fond of boasting about “his” generals. But over the short course of his presidency’s first months, the possession and control have reversed themselves. Mattis, McMaster, and Kelly have banished all opposition and now pour the neo-con agenda straight into Trump’s ear. The U.S., long known for its meddling in the affairs of other…

China Rising or Leveling Off?

China Rising or Leveling Off?

High-ranking personnel ousted, doubting allies, indications of global withdrawal, rising nationalism and populism. Then, there’s the chaos in the White House but China, ahead of a crucial party meeting, has problems not entirely removed from the Trump administration. The party leader in Chongqing, Sun Zhengcai, a man tipped for the presidency and responsible for one…

Ha’aretz: Meet the Israelis ‘Not Jewish Enough’

Ha’aretz: Meet the Israelis ‘Not Jewish Enough’

How Israel excludes those ‘not Jewish enough’: Meet the ‘second-class’ Jews whose plight is sparking an uprising against Israel’s supreme religious authority. Many are children of Jewish fathers and non-Jewish mothers, largely Russian-speaking immigrants. Some are Jews of choice whose conversions are unrecognized by Israel’s supreme religious authority because the rabbis who signed their certificates…