It is Bibi again. Having unapologetically allied with a racist, Jewish-supremacist party, Benjamin Netanyahu has secured a fourth consecutive term as Israel’s...
The Comprehensive Peace Agreement (C.P.A.) that was reached in 2005 between mostly Christian Southern Sudan and the country’s Muslim North, ended one of the...
Humbled by the Republicans’ landslide mid-term election victory, US President Barack Obama will now need to negotiate every minor detail of his domestic...
Trapped since the 1960s in a protracted armed conflict with the most unscrupulous militias imaginable, and a hostage to drug lords who turned the...
Twenty years after the Madrid Peace conference, and 10 years after President Bill Clinton’s heroic efforts at Camp David failed to yield a settlement...
The deadly fiasco of the Turkish-led “peace flotilla” to Gaza highlighted the deepening strain in the Israeli-Turkish alliance. But it mainly...
The $5 billion in short-term aid for Haiti, and the $10 billion pledged for its long-term reconstruction at the International Donors’ Conference on...
Saturated with their often tragic history, Jews tend to pay great reverence to the past. But the past, especially when not handled with care, can be the enemy...
The policy of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government on Jerusalem is ill conceived. This was amply demonstrated by the announcement of...
Across the Middle East, a fatalistic conventional wisdom is taking hold, namely that war is unavoidable. Some see war as a way of resolving an increasingly...
US President Barack Obama’s first year in office has been a sobering exercise in the limits of presidential power. It has also carried lessons about how...
The idea of integrating Israel into the North Atlantic Treaty Organization has frequently been advanced as bait to encourage the country to make the necessary...
So President Barack Obama has decided to “stay the course.” The obstinate battle cry of the Bush administration in Iraq has now won out in...
The forthcoming United Nation’s conference commemorating the 60th anniversary of UNRWA (The UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees) could not...
No matter how important rising oil powers outside the Middle East are becoming, the region will continue to be the world’s main source of energy for...
President Barack Obama’s vision of a world without nuclear weapons, like the recent agreement he signed with Russia aimed at cutting back the nuclear...
President Barack Obama’s much discussed Cairo speech represented not only the demise of George W. Bush’s ideological drive to reconstruct the Muslim world...
The end of the 'special' US-Israel Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's recent visit to Washington highlighted fundamental disagreements between...
It was only natural that Barack Obama, a president whose election was one of the most revolutionary events in American history, should fill his first 100 days...
The most immediate result of the arrest warrant issued for Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir by the International Criminal Court last month was the...
Ever since Turkey's establishment as a republic, the country has oscillated between the Western-oriented heritage of its founder, Mustapha Kemal Ataturk, and...
Europe's vocation for peacemaking and for international norms of behavior is bound to become the base upon which Barack Obama will seek to reconstruct the...
President-elect Barack Obama's plans for the Middle East, the region where his predecessor's policies shattered America's standing around the world as a...
Israel's desperate plea that the world act to curtail what its intelligence service describes as Iran's "gallop toward a nuclear bomb" has not gotten the...
Does the war in the Caucasus herald the coming of Cold War II? Or is it a Russian invitation to the West to reshape the global status quo that has prevailed...