Last update – 21:29 He suggested feeding the elderly with food contaminated by radiation, since in any case most of them would die from other causes long before they developed cancer. In discussing the connection between nuclear fallout and an…
read moreBEIRUT One rainy morning in January, Itidal Karim took her two adolescent daughters and 4-year-old son and joined tens of thousands of other women dressed in black chadors to walk for miles through Beirut’s gritty suburbs. Arriving at their destination,…
read moreRecently, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert announced that, as a matter of deep principle, he would never accept a right of return by Palestinian refugees and their descendants. His argument was simple: the Palestinians, aided by the surrounding Arab countries, started…
read moreNot many years ago the brilliant Orientalist, Bernard Lewis, published a short history of the Islamic world’s decline, entitled “What Went Wrong?” Astonishingly, there was, among many Western progressives” a title. It is a false premise, these critics protested. They…
read moreToday, Britain and the West face a new Iranian hostage crisis. Reflecting on this and on President Ahmadinejad’s other actions and statements brings to mind George Orwell’s essay “Who are the War Criminals,” written during World War II. Orwell criticized…
read moreDr. Goldstein is a professor of history at the University of West Georgia in Carrollton and a writer for the History News Service. He is the author of China and Israel, 1948-1998: A Fifty-Year Retrospective (1999). In preparation for hosting…
read moreThe Israeli government should accept the Arab initiative because it has a solemn obligation to explore any possibility, however remote, to peacefully end the Arab-Israeli conflict. Israel can accept the Arab initiative in principle, and as long as it negotiates…
read moreWhen Henry Kissinger coined the term “constructive ambiguity” during his attempts to negotiate Arab-Israeli peace, he couldn’t have expected that one day Palestinians would use it in their own peace initiative. The ambiguity in the agenda of the new Palestinian…
read moreIn the Middle East today, home of the invention of algebra, a new math seems to have taken over. It is subtraction by addition. It goes like this: Add more trips to the region by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice…
read moreWith the visit of Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice this week and the special attention she gave to the revival of the 2002 Saudi-inspired Arab Peace Initiative, expectations had been elevated that yesterday’s Riyadh Arab summit might provide a mechanism…
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