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Yazidi militiamen are accused of their own war crimes.

2017 will be remembered as the year that the so-called "peace process", at least in its American formulation, has ended. And with its demise, a political framework that has served as the foundation for US foreign policy in the Middle East has also collapsed. The Palestinian leadership and its Arab and international allies will now … Continue reading “Year in Review: Will 2018 Usher in a New Palestinian Strategy?”

Americans of a certain age will almost all remember Gilda Radner’s Emily Litella character from NBC’s Saturday Night Live. She was the little old lady who regularly appeared on the Weekend Update mock news program to give her opinion on the pressing events of the day. Week after week she would launch into involved explanations … Continue reading “Never Mind: Big Media and the Catalonia Vote”

A fresh standoff between Iraq and Kurdish forces is being reported.

ISIS is still able to conduct sporadic attacks in Mosul and Kirkuk.

On the centenary of the Balfour Declaration, Israelis celebrated, while Palestinians mourned. British Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour, on November 2, 1917, signed away the ancestral home of the Palestinians in a letter assuring Britain’s Zionist community of his government’s support for the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people. The dire … Continue reading “100 Years of Balfour”

Anyone proposing the death penalty is either a complete fool, an incorrigible cynic or mentally disturbed – or all of these. There is no effective therapy for any of these defects. I wouldn’t even try. A fool would not understand the overwhelming evidence for the conclusion. For a cynic, advocacy of the death penalty is … Continue reading “Israel the Bully”

Militants shot and killed a police chief and a child in Kirkuk.

Six militants were killed in clashes.

In a scene reminiscent of the movie The Godfather the US ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, told the world on December 20 that the US would be "taking names" of countries that voted in the UN to reject Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as capital of Israel. It’s all part of the pattern of … Continue reading “Taking Names for Israel”