Iraq

There is something hypnotic about the 15th century painting by Hieronymus Bosch, The Ship of Fools. The painting being very small, I used to use a magnifying glass to identify all of the secrets packed...

Lenny Ben-David worked for AIPAC until 1997. He later served as a diplomat
in Israel's embassy in Washington. Today, he is a public affairs consultant and blogs at www.lennybendavid.com.

As the international community rushes to condemn Israel for the violence on board one of the ships in the Gaza flotilla, which left a reported 10 people dead and dozens injured, it is now...

By Barry Rubin The Obama administration has a major internal split. The problem is that the people most qualified to be heard and who have the better understanding of the situation are being ignored. The reasons...

http://www.uruknet.info/?colonna=m&p=79482&l=x&size=1&hd=0 Every morning he wakes up, prays, prepares tea, carries the old tea pot and a small glass and goes to check on his trees and plants. He wanders between the loquat tree and the...

http://www.nysun.com/foreign/how-benzion-netanyahu-helped-put-in-the-un/87809/ Benzion Netanyahu, who died Monday in Jerusalem at the age of 102, has been widely scrutinzed this week for his myriad contributions to the history of Zionism in Israel and the United States. Yet...

http://www.gloria-center.org/2012/07/will-the-rebels-win-syria%E2%80%99s-civil-war-and-what-that-means/?utm The tide seems to be turning in Syria. While the civil war is far from over, the regime is clearly weakening; the rebels are expanding their operations and effectiveness. There have also been more...

http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_opinion.php?id=3223 What's behind Abbas' new tone? Mahmoud Abbas delivered a speech on Jan. 4, on the anniversary of the founding of Fatah, that may have marked a turning point in the relations between the Palestinian Authority...

http://rubinreports.blogspot.co.il/2013/11/tonight-im-gonna-party-like-its-1939.html “The sky was all purpleThere were people runnin’ everywhere Oops out of time,Tryin’ to run from the destructionYou know I didn’t even care...So tonight I’m gonna party like it’s 199.”-Prince, “1999” I have been working...

http://www.inss.org.il/index.aspx?id=4538&articleid=6096 The interim deal signed in Geneva by the P5+1 and Iran is meant only to put “more time on the clock” in order to negotiate a final deal - a comprehensive agreement that will...