Category: Politically and Diplomatically Speaking
UNESCO claims to make decisions divorced from any potential political applications. This is a lie. We can find evidence of this in the most recent draft resolution on Jerusalem (and Gaza and Hebron) and...
Martyrs and other good Muslims are promised 72 virgins in Paradise. Where did the number ’72’ come from? I assume it was not just picked out of a hat. And for the answer to...
The Hillary Rodham of 1975 did nothing wrong in the rape case. The Hillary Rodham Clinton of 2016 should respond to the issues that have arisen since then around this case. I write this...
Kirk Douglas draws on his advanced age (nearing 100) and his being a Jew to claim that there are parallels between Hitler and Trump. He is not the first to have made that connection...
Do Syrians feel Syrian enough to fight back and reclaim their country? Does the integrity of a Syrian nation along our northern border make a difference to Israel? * * * * * Raihan...
Let’s get serious . . . it really doesn’t matter where Yasser Arafat was born. When we talk about peoplehood we are not talking about where one’s parents happened to be geographically when one...
Maroun complied with Susskind-Sack’s insistence that non-Jews are pro-Zionists and can never be considered Zionists (see Part 1 of this two-part series). According to his latest Times of Israel blog post, he apparently accepted...
A fierce debate that took place in September 2015 in a corner of Facebook has been resuscitated by a new Times of Israel blog post by Fred Maroun. The debate last year was about...