War Torn Civilian Victims of Political Terrorism

*Dr Trappler`s original research, as well as case reports and letters to editors have been published in various peer-reviewed journals, including the American Journal of Psychiatry and the American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry. His various...

CBC Investigation: Who killed Lebanon’s Rafik Hariri?

Who killed Rafik Hariri? His assassination in February 2005 rocked the power arrangements in the Middle East and turned him into an overarching symbol of everything that was wrong in Lebanon. (Mohamed Azakir/Reuters) It wasn't...

A SHORT HISTORY OF U.S. GUARANTEES TO ISRAEL

Pres. Obama seems surprised that Bibi is so insistent on dotting the i's and crossing the t's in his letter of guarantees in order to extend the building moratorium for another 90 days. It’s...

News Analysis:”The Other Shoe?”

What is being touted as minor glitches in the negotiations between Israel and the US with regard to the "freeze" deal are actually much more. And so the talking goes on and on. All...

THE ROLE OF JOHN GING, UNRWA DIRECTOR IN GAZA, IN POLITICAL WARFARE

John Ging has been the head of the United Nation Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) in Gaza since 2006. In this role, and despite his reported opposition to the BDS (boycotts, divestment, and sanctions)...

Why Israel is a rogue state [Gabriel Latner]

In October there was a debate in Cambridge; the proposition - "Israel is a rogue state". Gabriel Latner was the Cambridge University law student who was assigned by the Cambridge Union debating society to...

News Analysis

The Israeli government is waiting for the US government to put in writing what Clinton told Netanyahu verbally. Israel might have to wait a long time. Yesterday, when State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley was asked about...

IF OBAMA IS SERIOUS, LET HIM SIGN

For over 60 years, people have dreaming of peace here. In 1993, when Obama joined a large law firm, the Oslo Accords were signed on the White House lawn, and peace appeared more tangible...

U.S. Security Guarantees – “Israel’ sole discretion” provision is crucial

"The chances of achieving a peace agreement will be significantly advanced by achieving comprehensive security understandings between Israel and the US." Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu - Press Release - Prime Minister’s Office, 10 November, 2010 "Israel, with her survival...

How Haaretz concocted a conflict

-- On July 10, 2008 Ha’aretz’s main section contained a small story. Not small, tiny. 93 words to be precise. “The district committee,” stated the article, “has approved for public hearing the establishment of...