Note from Rowland: In the interests of balance, I try to post articles on this website both pro and con the major stances of Israel, Hamas etc. Here’s a pro-Israel comment: ***** January 2, 2009 Here was a David! When comes such another? Andrew Bostom, a lion in his own right, explores Hamas’ genocidal bloodlust, […]
A Saudi Mosque in Moscow in Exchange for a Russian Church in Mecca? November 26, 2008 WINDOW ON EURASIA Paul Goble Vienna, November 26 – The king of Saudi Arabia has announced that he is ready to support the construction of a mosque and Islamic cultural center in Moscow, a city with only four mosques […]
AHMED AL-JARALLAH 5/01/2009 7:39:00 AM OPINION What will Hamas say to the Palestinians after pushing them to hell under the barbaric Israeli attacks? Hamas the mule knows nothing about the demands of the living except backwardness and trading in religion. Generally, the members of this group consider themselves spokespersons of the Palestinians but they endanger […]
* Damien Kingsbury * January 6, 2009 The bases of insurgents may be destroyed, but their grievances demand real solutions. AS SRI Lankan Government soldiers occupied the Tamil Tigers’ stronghold of Kilinochchi, Israeli soldiers began to enter Gaza. One case represents a separatist movement in perhaps the final throes of a failed struggle for independence; […]
By Ephraim Sneh Thursday, January 1, 2009 When demands are made of Israel to halt its military activities in Gaza, a brief historical reminder is in order. In September 2005, Israel vacated Gaza, dismantled all the settlements in the Gaza Strip and did not leave a shred of a presence there. In January 2006, rule […]
By WILLIAM KRISTOL Published: January 4, 2009 The Israeli assault on Hamas in Gaza is going to be a replay, we’re told, of the attempt to subdue Hezbollah in southern Lebanon in the summer of 2006. And the outcome, it’s asserted, will be the same: lots of death and destruction, no strategic victory for Israel […]
* Tim Costello * January 2, 2009 We fell hook, line and sinker for Paris Hilton’s latest PR trick, says Tim Costello. HOW is it possible that Paris Hilton visits Melbourne for one day to go shopping and makes front-page news? How is it possible that the next day acting Prime Minister Julia Gillard and […]
The great faction fiction * Irfan Yusuf * January 5, 2009 INFLUENTIAL Harvard University politics professor Samuel Huntington, who died on Christmas Eve, is best known for his theory that the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War meant future international conflict would no longer be between competing superpowers or […]
Sightings *1/5/08 Non-negotiables — Martin E. Marty Long-time subscribers know that Monday *Sightings *does not “do” U.S. Presidents or presidential candidates, but this twilight moment after an election and before an inauguration provides me with another category, “President-Elect,” which today’s column will notice for an important reason. That reason?* *The approach to religion-and-politics proposed by […]
Tenets of the Catechism Harry T. Cook 12/05/08 Thanks to my daughter who keeps track of such things on her MacBook, I saw over the holiday weekend a reprise of the Sarah Palin-turkey farm interview. Not only were viewers treated to the bloodletting of seasonal fowl bound for Alaskan Thanksgiving dinner tables, but to more […]