Tag Archive for 'middle east'

Top ten stories of 2009

It’s always natural at the end of the year to reflect on the previous 12 months. This year’s “a look back” is more pronounced than most Decembers, what with it also being the end of a decade, and the end of the first decade of the third millennium to boot. How did the many monumental [...]

Obama awarded the Nobel - what a joke!

Breaking news. Guess who’s won this year’s Nobel Peace Prize?
If you guessed the world’s golden boy, he who can do no wrong, you guessed correctly.
Obama, winning the Nobel Peace Prize? Please!

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Higgeldy-piggelty discussions on Israel

Following up on Rabbi Shlomo Riskin’s lecture last week in Zurich, I find myself with one thought: how unclear and unfocused discussion on the Arab-Israeli conflict has become.
Don’t get me wrong. At times Riskin is straightforward, such as emphatically stating that the issue of settlements, contrary to Barack Obama’s opinion, is not central to the [...]