The initial international neglect, particularly in the United States, of the growing refugee crisis, especially of Syria, whose people have been illegally and dangerously crossing into Europe by the thousands, underlines a saddening humanitarian situation, as shocking as it is di

The tide against the influential wealthy American Jews is slowly rising in the United States, glaringly evident in the media and at some public conferences as the country prepares itself for a presidential election next year.The New York Times noted in a front-page news story, ti

President Barak Obama’s (and that of several other US congressmen) continued appeasement of Israel is unconscionable, especially coming in the wake of the blatant anti-Obama stance of arrogant Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu who was recently been discredited by many Isr

While on a lengthy trip to South Africa — and three adjoining states noted for their safaris and the picturesque Victoria Falls — I came across a leading article in The Star, a Johannesburg newspaper established in 1887, which devoted a whole page to the Palestinian-Israeli confl

The outstanding deal signed last Tuesday between seemingly nuclear-ambitious Iran and the P5+1 nations — the United States, Russia, Britain, France and China plus Germany — will radically transform international relations.

At the drop of a hat, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is most willing to lash out at Palestinians and other Arabs, Iranians and many Westerners, particularly those negotiating with Iran over its nuclear arsenal, in the hope that he will remain prime minister of Israel f

The division between American and Israeli Jews is growing nowadays, recently prompted by the publication of “Ally: My Journey Across the American Israeli Divide”, authored by the former Israeli ambassador to the United States, Michael B.

The low-key US reaction to the condemnation of Israel this week by a UN-backed commission for its bloody assault on the besieged Gaza Strip is appalling.Home to 1.7 million Palestinians, last year 2,251 Palestinians were killed in Gaza; of these, 1,462 were civilians, of whom 299

The tide is rising steadily against the policies of the extreme rightist Israeli government led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu notorious for his flop-flop stances in negotiating with the Palestinians who have been waiting for 48 years now to establish their state in the Isr