The United States has long condemned the Syrian authorities for attacking civilians with missiles, artillery and chemical weapons. On Monday, they made a point of adding a new item to that list: starvation. US Secretary of State John Kerry said…
Cautiously optimistic, meet hesitantly hopeful. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has long been concerned about Iran’s nuclear program, but on Wednesday he said he thinks the world powers are “very close” to a good deal on Iran’s nuclear program. But…
There’s an old saying from the Bible that a house divided against itself cannot stand. A divided house also doesn’t make for a very promising peace partner. Some Palestinians may be negotiating a peace deal with Israel, but others are…
It might be easy to think that what happens in Syria stays in Syria, that the regime’s unleashing poisonous gas on its own people doesn’t affect Americans or Europeans. But the world’s response to Syria sends a signal to other…
So Israel has been forced to release Palestinian terrorists in exchange for peace talks. Any chance this will result in real peace on the ground between the two peoples looks dashed when one examines who these released terrorists are and…
And so it begins again. Israeli and Palestinian negotiators have sat down in the same room and started talking. It’s easy to assume that like each of the previous four times that has been triumphantly announced, this too will…