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What is going on with Israel’s strategic foreign policy?

A brief analysis of recent Israeli foreign policy: regional summits a year and a half on from the Abraham Accords, plus staying neutral in face of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine – by Alexander Jones – Israel’s strategic foreign policy goals have always been numerous and complex, if nothing else. As the first quarter of 2022 […]

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A Tale of Two Presidents

President George Washington’s 1790 letter emancipating the Jews of the United States. – by Samuel J. Aronson –  Throughout 1789 and 1790 George Washington was traveling across the nascent United States “to acquire knowledge of the face of the Country, the growth and Agriculture thereof, and the temper and disposition of the Inhabitants towards the […]

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Housing demolitions

Housing demolitions are sadly a regular part of life to be contended with in East Jerusalem. But recently there have been some disturbing developments in an already disturbing field. This week at least 10 buildings (some reports say as many as 16) were demolished in in the Wadi Hummus area of Sur Baher, just to […]

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Palestinians have every right to reject another Oslo

With the Bahrain workshop, the Trump administration is relying on the same old Oslo model of economy before politics. What needs to be done is to hold Israel accountable. – by Sam Bahour – American President Donald Trump speaks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and advisor Jared Kushner at the White House, May 22, […]

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Outsourcing US Foreign Policy

– by Fred Schlomka – President Trump must be really desperate. The administration’s ‘Peace to Prosperity Workshop’, scheduled for 25th June in Bahrain, seems to be lacking in willing participants and so they are resorting to desperate measures, including outsourcing the organising of the Workshop to a private company. The recent flood of random ‘personal’ […]

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In Search of the Real America • Summer 2017 • Day 1

– by Fred Schlomka – The America I knew is collapsing – folding in on itself and apparently reinventing the very basis of its existence. The man in the White House is rocking the world. Regardless of what anyone says, Donald Trump’s stunning victory will forever reshape the political landscape in the USA. I resolve […]

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