Daily Archives: August 2, 2019
Using youngsters as a tool for violence near the security fence in the Gaza...
The return march in the Gaza Strip on July 26, 2019, was similar in most respects to the previous marches. About 4,500 Palestinians participated, gathering mainly at the five return camps. As usual, the...
Venezuela: A Mafia State
President Nicolás Maduro’s Venezuela is effectively a mafia state, run by a military leadership that is heavily involved in the drug trade and security forces that aid the criminal networks they are supposed to...
From Israel: Delusion or Real Hope This Time?
August 1, 2019
Things on the political scene have been – if not quite grim – unsettling and worrisome at best.
But I want to kick off here with very recent news about a transition in...
A most dangerous season
We are now in the midst of the three weeks, that period between 17 Tammuz and 9 Av, which commemorates the destruction of both Temples and other historical calamities.
It is a time when religious...