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Tag: Israel

  • The wider implications of the Syrian drama

    What started some 2 years ago in Syria as a protest movement against a brutal oppressive regime is now an uprising of spiralling war between various fractions, potentially dragging a whole region in a whirlpool of vicious violence. – What started 2 years ago as a struggle for justice being compromised became a sad time…

  • Both International And National Security Starts At Home – US in the picture.

    “I have not seen anywhere else in the world a gun lobby that has the same level of influence on its own government as the NRA does in the United States.”    –Andrew Feinstein. – “I am concerned for the security of our great Nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of insidious…

  • America’s Role In The Middle East – Justified?

    “We shall live at last as free men on our soil, and die peacefully in our own homes”, – as Theodor Herzl once wrote in his book “The Jewish State“. He wrote this almost a century ago, long before the concentration camps of Hitler, long before the increasing tensions in the Middle East, – not…

  • To Cross The Waves Of Time..

    “I look up to the people who keep dancing even after the music has stopped, because those are the people who keep on trying even after all hope is lost” – unknown origin “If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner” —Nelson…

  • Some predictions for 2013 after 2012?

    >”Don’t sweat the small stuff when so much else matters.”< Predictions are not always easy and sometimes impossible. We have one certainty and this is that not nothing is certain. Our agenda for tomorrow based on today or yesterday may well work out, but sometimes it may get disrupted by the unexpected and we have…