Sic Transit Gloria Mundi: Thus Passes the Glory of the World
http://www.jewishpress.com/indepth/analysis/dr-mordechai-kedar/sic-transit-gloria-mundi-thus-passes-the-glory-of-the-world/2012/09/23/0/?print
In the past, the United States was the "glory of the world", mainly after it came to the aid of Europe in the Second World War, the victory over Germany and Japan in 1945,...
Arafat’s “Kleptocracy” Revisted
Imagine former Enron CEO Kenneth Lay, who plundered his company's assets before its demise, pleading poverty and then asking world leaders and financial institutions to help support the jobless employees and destitute pensioners of...
Israel at Peace
http://www.danielpipes.org/12145/israel-at-peace
Those concerned with the security and welfare of the Jewish state keep asking questions like "Is Israel Doomed? " and Will Israel Survive? (also in French, Israël peut-il survivre? ). One even titled a...
Concerning the “Fine Print” in the UN/Iraqi Agreement
Thus, the more likely reading of the authorization section of P.L. 102-1 is that Congress specifically authorized the use of United States military forces to drive Iraqi forces from Kuwait. Congress would have taken...
Spotlight on Iran – “Haqqani” and “Alavi”: hotbeds for the growth and development of...
http://www.terrorism-info.org.il/en/article/20575
In August 2013 the Iranian president presented his new government, which is largely comprised of technocrats with an extensive academic education. One of Rowhani’s government’s distinctive characteristics is the prominent presence of graduates of...
Eye on Syria: Timely Report on Developments
Welcome to Eye on Syria, a timely report on developments in Syria as well as a review of pertinent articles in the Syrian official press as well as what is written about Syria. The...
U.S. Firms on List Aided Iraq Arms Development
United Nations -- Iraq's 12,000-page declaration of its weapons programs lists American companies that provided materials used by Baghdad to develop chemical and biological weapons in the 1980s, according to a senior Iraqi official.
The...
Official PA radio news – P.B.C. VOP (Voice of Palestine) Radio: January 30
Summary and Analysis
In its Tuesday morning news broadcasts, VOP opened with news of a new Palestinian martyr, while reiterating news of the killing last night of an "Israeli settler," and VOP summed up the...
THE COMING CRISIS IN THE MIDDLE EAST
The gap between dominant Western perceptions of the Middle East and the region's reality is dangerously wide. While the "Arab Spring" is celebrated as an advance for moderation and democracy, in fact the advance...
Some US Congressional leaders worry that Gaza pullout amounts to appeasement
Nobody in the Republican-controlled Congress wants to be seen as opposing the wishes of both Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and the Bush administration. But quietly, the unilateral Israeli pullout from the Gaza Strip...