Tag Archives: Israel

Provocations

Clashes between Jews and Palestinians on the occasion of Purim are commonplace. In Hebron, or rather Al Khalil in the West Bank, they seem to escalate these days since the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has announced that he wanted the … Continue reading

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Norwegian Hubris

When the Swedish industrialist and inventor of dynamite Alfred Nobel (1833-1896) endowed his award for peace in 1895 he had a person in mind “who shall have done the most of the best work for fraternity between nations, for the … Continue reading

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Election

The Guardian Council of the Iranian Islamic theocracy has just started screening of 475 electoral hopefuls who have signed-up for the June 12 presidential election. The winner is already known, the incumbent President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. There is no other choice for … Continue reading

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Palestine Wiped Off the Map

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Words of Concern

There was an outcry by Iranian news media when French President Nicholas Sarkozy warned the leaders of the Islamic Republic that “Iran is taking a major risk in continuing the process to obtain a military nuclear capacity”. In a meeting in … Continue reading

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