Saudi official: it’s now or never for peace
“I want to tell you a story showing how we Saudis like to describe reality: a man is walking alone in the desert as the sun is setting. Suddenly he sees a large shadow behind him. The man seizes up. The More...
UN’s Ban Ki-moon in diplomatic effort to calm Israeli-Palestinian violence
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon was due to begin a snap visit on Tuesday to try to stem Israeli-Palestinian violence as Israel issued fresh assurances addressing Muslim fears of Jewish encroachment More...
SAUDI ARABIA: The General Who wants Peace
In an interview with Anwar Eshki, a former Saudi general and the architect of the Gulf kingdom’s conciliation with Israel, said that the dialogue between the two states united by a common enemy: Iran. Anwar More...
Uri Avnery: The Magician’s Apprentice
ONE HAS to choose: Binyamin Netanyahu is either incredibly shrewd or incredibly foolish. Take his Iran policy. Actually, there is little to choose from. Netanyahu has no other policy to speak off. According More...
Uri Avnery: Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Bomb?
I MUST start with a shocking confession: I am not afraid of the Iranian nuclear bomb. I know that this makes me an abnormal person, almost a freak. But what can I do? I am unable to work up fear, like a More...
Latest IPI Survey: 75% of Israelis Back Israeli Peace Initiative
On February 10th and 11th, New Wave Research (a subsidiary of the Nielsen Group) carried out a public opinion Internet survey for the Israeli Peace Initiative Group (IPI). The survey was based on a More...
Saudi King Abdullah Is Dead at 90, Should We Care?
King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, who ascended to the throne on 1 August 2005, at age 80, after his half-brother, King Fahd, had died, is now gone, too. And the world is busy trying to figure out More...
Two Speeches
IF I could choose between the two rhetorical gladiators, I would rather have Mahmoud Abbas representing Israel and Netanyahu representing the other side. Abbas More...