Good News From Israel: Economy & Business
Growing nicely. (TY Michelle) Moody’s Investors Service reported that Israel’s resilient growth model, effective governance and steadily improving debt metrics underpin its A1 government More...
Report: Netanyahu agreed to freeze building in settlements
Saeb Erekat, the secretary general of the PLO Executive Committee, said Saturday that US Secretary of State John Kerry had told Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas that Prime Minister Netanyahu More...
Erekat threatens to disband the Palestinian Authority: “Very soon, you’re going to hear some decisions”
Erekat threatens to disband the Palestinian Authority: “Very soon, you’re going to hear some decisions” Says he doesn’t “condone the killing of people” but he “fully supports” his people Accuses More...
Israeli-Palestinian Violence Is a Failure of Political Leadership on Both Sides
US Secretary of State John Kerry meets tomorrow with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and later this week with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Jordan’s King Hussein, aiming to find ways More...
Alan Elsner: Failures of leadership
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas have both spoken many times before at the annual gathering of the United Nations General Assembly – but the gulf between them More...
‘Dr. Doom’ Nouriel Roubini: The Middle East Meltdown and Global Risk
Among today’s geopolitical risks, none is greater than the long arc of instability stretching from the Maghreb to the Afghanistan-Pakistan border. With the Arab Spring an increasingly distant memory, the More...
Israel holds the solution to world water crisis
“I’m a man on a mission, ” says Seth Siegel, author of the newly released Let There be Water: Israel’s Solution for a Water-Starved World (Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin’s Press). “My goal More...
Uri Avnery: The Real Menace
I AM AFRAID. I am not ashamed to admit it. I am afraid. I am afraid of the Islamic State movement, alias ISIS, alias Daesh. It is the only real danger that threatens Israel, that threatens the world, More...
IsraAID sending team to help refugees in Europe
Streams of desperate refugees flooding Europe from the Middle East, Asia and Africa will soon get a helping hand from IsraAID , a non-profit, non-governmental organization founded in Israel in 2001 to More...
Uri Avnery: The Face of a Boy
THE MISDEEDS of Napoleon’s occupation army in Spain were not photographed. Photography had not yet been invented. The valiant fighters against the occupation had to rely on Francisco Goya for the immortal More...