Most Clicked This Week
- “‘Lox and Loaded’ partnership comes as anxieties fuel interest in firearms”
- Former US officials blast decision to deny Pollard parole
- In Obama-speak, they're not "criminals" but "justice-involved individuals" (and Jack the Ripper was one of those “cutlery-involved folks”)
- "The great majority of Israelis, so violently awakened from Oslo’s delusions, have reconciled themselves to basic realities"
- “They amassed in Paris's Place de la République, carrying banners accusing Israel of massacring Palestinians and shouting 'dirty Jews' at their opponent”
- "President Joe Biden's Iran policy was conceived and is being implemented by the same people who negotiated the JCPOA under Obama, who argued in favor of empowering Iran"
- "A DC rally against Jew-hatred struck many of the right notes, but the poor turnout, combined with obvious divisions between left and right, illustrates the dismal Jewish crisis response"
- "The strategic paradigms that governed the Middle East for decades have shifted. Not all of them. Not fully. But the shift is real, larger than is yet fully understood, and Israel drove it"
Tag Archives: Kurds
Kurds edge towards statehood, with Turkish, Israeli help
FORTUNE by Geoffrey Smith June 20, 2014 The age-old dream of a Kurdish state is on the verge of being realized as the authority of Iraq’s central government frays. The world may be focusing on the looming battle for Baghdad between … Continue reading
Why the Kurds are a beacon of hope in the Middle East
JNS.ORG by Ben Cohen June 13, 2014 During the war in Iraq, when I was still living in London and coordinating news coverage of the overthrow of Saddam Hussein for various international media organizations, I was in regular contact with … Continue reading
Surprising Ties between Israel and the Kurds
MIDDLE EAST QUARTERLY by Ofra Bengio Summer 2014 In 1966, Iraqi defense minister Abd al-Aziz al-Uqayli blamed the Kurds of Iraq for seeking to establish “a second Israel” in the Middle East. He also claimed that “the West and the … Continue reading
ArchitectGuy on Israel 