Ending Iraq’s humanitarian crisis
It is time to end the Iraqi tragedy. Much of the healing and prospects for a better and more promising future is in the hands of the Iraqi people themselves –…
Gaza – a disaster in the making
What is Netanyahu thinking? It has been ten years since Hamas defeated the Palestinian Authority in Gaza and assumed control over the territory. Today, the socio-economic conditions in Gaza are so horrendous…
Afghanistan: a morally corrupting war
Afghanistan: A Morally Corrupting War Sixteen years have passed and we are still fighting a war in Afghanistan. It was necessary to invade Afghanistan to destroy al-Qaeda following 9/11, but once it…
An open letter to Netanyahu Haven’t fifty years been enough?
Dear Mr Netanyahu Since you celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of the victory of the Six Day War, did you ponder what this triumph has done to the Palestinian people and to the…
Israel’s occupation is morally indefensible
Alon Ben-Meir “Act only on that maxim through which you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law” I have long maintained that Israel’s occupation of…
Trump’s ‘historic’ visit to the Middle East
Much ado about nothing There was no progress in in the search for a solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The Arab states continue to refuse to normalise relations with Israel before resolving…
Reviving Israeli-Palestinian talks now will go nowhere
Houston, we may have a problem President Trump’s upcoming visit to Israel and Palestine – during which he hopes to revive the Israeli-Palestinian peace process – will go nowhere unless he…
A burden to share
Israeli and Palestinian women must raise the banner of revolt On the sad occasion of the fiftieth year of the Israeli occupation of the West Bank, I will be writing a series…
Strategy of force coupled with sound diplomacy
President Trump’s unexpected attack on Syria’s Shayrat airbase in response to President Assad’s Sarin gas attack on his own citizens has changed the dynamic of Syria’s civil war and potentially its eventual…
The looming end to the Western-Turkish alliance
The growing tension between Turkey and its Western allies, which was further heightened during the Obama administration, is narrowing the space for cooperation between the two sides and in fact is progressively…
The battle over Syria’s future
“I don’t know what WW3 will be fought with, but WW4 will be fought with sticks and stones” As we approach the sixth year of Syria’s civil war, the whole international community…
The Sultan of an illusionary Ottoman Empire
Aka: Erdogan This is the fourth and last in a series of articles based in part on eyewitness accounts about the rapidly deteriorating socio-political conditions in Turkey and what the future may…
Erdogan exploits Islam for personal and political gain
Anyone who follows Turkish President Erdogan’s political career cannot escape the conclusion that he has carefully and systematically crafted policies framed in Islamic clothing. He uses religion to present himself and his…
Trump And Netanyahu
Embracing illusions, ignoring reality President Trump remained true to his customary flip-flopping on just about every issue when he stated during a joint press conference with Prime Minister Netanyahu that he is…
There will be no Palestinian State under Netanyahu’s watch
Where’s the two-state solution now? President Trump should not be swayed by Netanyahu’s duplicitous argument, however convincing it might sound, that he is committed to a two-state solution when in fact he…
Relocating The American Embassy To Jerusalem
Attaining a major breakthrough from a potentially disastrous fallout Should President Trump fulfil his campaign promise to relocate the American embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, it would have major regional and…
Erdogan: A classic case of how power corrupts
“…and if you gaze long enough into an abyss…” Much has been written on the endemic corruption in Turkey which involves virtually every social strata—including political, judicial, government administration, private sector, civil…