23 Articles

Wednesday, September 16, 2009
The Tangled Course to Middle East Peace - Crisis and not Conflict
A 180 degree rotation of the elements in the present peace process combined with Israel no longer being favored and no longer allowed to frame the process provides a direction for solving the Middle East crisis.

Sunday, August 2, 2009
The New Puritans - Calculating the trajectory of the Middle East conflict
The Zionist Jewish narrative closely follows the Separatist Puritan narrative. The early years of the development of the nation of Israel parallels the Puritan experience in America. Let's hope the trajectory will be detoured and the Israelis don't prove to be the New Puritans.

Wednesday, July 22, 2009
Ashkelon Speaks - A Story of the Middle East Conflict
Ashkelon has a story. It is the story of the Middle East conflict.

Monday, July 20, 2009
Why Jerusalem? Israel's Hidden Agenda
(2 comments) If Israel is modifying Jerusalem's heritage and subjugating its spiritual meaning, why does Israel want to unify Jerusalem?

Saturday, April 11, 2009
Palestinian Nationalism
(7 comments) The Palestinians need a state not just to live within borders. They need a state that all peoples claim, especially those who are dispossessed, to assure ontological security and to survive.

Thursday, April 9, 2009
The Economic Crisis: Part 1- Does Correct Thinking Drive the Recovery?
Is the Economic Recovery Plan guided by proper dictates and complete analysis or is it subjected to falsehoods and incomplete knowledge that limit recovery?

Friday, March 27, 2009
Arabesque-More Significant than Apparent
(1 comments) The Kennedy Center's festival of Arab culture, which brought to Washington's principal cultural center the music, voices and heritage of the 22 Arab nations, proved to be a political breakthrough.

Sunday, January 25, 2009
Israel Faces the Gaza Aftermath
(1 comments) Still not revealed are exact reasons for Israel's attack, its sudden willingness to halt the damage and what awaits a shaken Middle East in the future.

Monday, January 12, 2009
The Only Exit from Gaza is Death
(29 comments) The drama has subtext; undisclosed reasons for Israel's attack, unstated significance of the escalated conflict, and a non-clarified future for its final denouement. Search the entire landscape and we encounter happenings beyond the horizon. Missing from the debate are the disastrous consequences to the world community due to Israel's aggressive actions

Monday, December 29, 2008
World Leaders Respond Timidly to Israeli Attacks on Gaza
The tepid response of world leaders to Israel's ferocious attack on a defenseless Gaza conveys a helpless feeling to all world citizens – brutality rules and we are all vulnerable to attack.

Monday, December 1, 2008
Stimulating the U.S. Government to Bankruptcy
(1 comments) Secretary Paulson's contradictory and not easily decipherable plans are doomed to either provoke a huge depression or bankrupt the US treasury. President elect Barack Obama's proposals for stimulating the economy by massive government investments in infrastructure and job creation also leads to huge government deficits, but promises to increase the tax base and tax revenue so that deficits don't regenerate.

Friday, November 7, 2008
Challenge of New Statism
The liberal democracies have experienced financial shocks and reacted, but not as free market advocates expected. Adam Smith's name is not being loudly heard in the world's central banks. Instead we have western governments recommending federal interference in their poorly regulated economies and incorporating methods similar to those that guide New Statist nations, such as China and Russia.

Saturday, October 11, 2008
The Trade Balance and the Limits of the Paulson Rescue Plan
The $700 billion plus purchase of financial instruments, which essentially trades cash for trash, even if necessary, is an insufficient measure for resolving the "once in a hundred years," economic crisis. There must be more to the crisis than meets the eye.

Monday, September 22, 2008
The Great Bailout
Secretary Paulson's plan to prevent collapse of the financial system prompts immediate and unanswered questions: Will the Paulson plan fulfill its intentions or will it worsen what it wants to correct? The health of the financial system is a major problem, but is it the problem, and does it disguise the true problem?

Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Reconciliation of Sunni and Sh'ia
An Iraq that evolves into a non-sectarian democracy initiates a hopeful path to stabilization of the Middle East. This task cannot be accomplished before the Western world recognizes its role in aggravating Middle East problems. Instead of inciting division and hatred, and juggling Middle East lives to favor their own interests, shouldn't western agencies and governments encourage an Arab-Iran reconciliation?

Friday, August 15, 2008
Has the 'Surge" Prevented Peace?
(2 comments) Realignment of forces without reconciliation of populations spells confrontation. A 'surge' that made all this possible seems to have made reconciliation less possible, which translates into a 'surge" that has provided additional obstacles to peace and stability.

Thursday, July 31, 2008
From Usurpation to Liberation
The suffering due to occupation and a perspective of Israel as a colonizer drives the Palestinians to a war of liberation. Hope for success is enhanced by Israel's inability to accumulate a sufficient mass of world Jewry to labor for a Jewish homeland. Hopelessness that foresees failure is dictated by Israel's acts that subdue the Palestinians. Ferocity of the Israel campaign certifies it is fighting a liberation movement.

Saturday, May 3, 2008
Harsh Reality of Middle East Conflict
(14 comments) A century old conflict between the state of Israel and stateless Palestinians, many of whom have been disposed from lands that created the Israel state, has provoked an argument: Is it preferable to have two states living side by side or have one state from the Mediterranean Sea to the Jordan River that includes Jews and Palestinians without prejudice and with equal rights for all?

Wednesday, January 16, 2008
Face to Face With Hezbollah
(2 comments) Meetings with Hezbollah and Lebanese officials together with a trip to southern Lebanon, as a member of a Council for National Interest peace delegation, revealed much about the nature of the Party of God. The voyage started in Beirut.

Monday, December 17, 2007
Who Speaks for the Palestinians?
(4 comments) The inability to force responses to UN resolutions and provide a legal context to the Israeli/Palestinian conflict is a principal reason for continuation of the decades old conflict. The corollary is that only enforcement of UN resolutions and adherence to international law will resolve the conflict.

Tuesday, November 20, 2007
The Wasting of the West Bank
What seems to be purposeful hindrances to West Bank residents, reduce Palestinians, who have meager demands and normal needs, to total despair and deprivation.

Friday, September 28, 2007
The Road to Pieces
(1 comments) Forces which manipulate information also guide discussions of the Middle East peace proposals. They control the decisions to ameliorate the situation and have the military muscle to counter any attack on their roles. A logical approach and just solution to a deadly conflict don't favor the policies of Israel and the United States. Their road to peace leads to a world shattered into pieces.

Wednesday, September 19, 2007
The United States Administration's Secret Love for Iran
(1 comments) The severe negative qualities of the Iranian regime fit well into U.S. foreign policy arguments. The positive qualities, and there are some, go unheeded by the Bush administration – and for a reason – they contradict the U.S. government policies towards the Islamic nation. The U.S. administration evidently loves the serious defects of the present Iranian regime.