Redefining the role of “the leader of the free world”
While Obama has raised many hopes and achieved a rhetorical break with the totalitarian language of the Bush administration, his choice of advisers indicates regression rather than progression. Yet if his promise turns out to be meretricious, the world’s rocky relationship with the United States will deteriorate even further.
Lessons from the latest violent episode between Israel and Hamas
The important concessions that an impetuous Israel is still unwilling to make
In 1968, Israel was warned that if it were to lose its self-control and ability to keep its position in the tumultuous Middle East would weaken significantly. In 2008 and on into 2009, it waged a devastating three-week long war against an enemy interspersed within a civilian population. Discover how Israel has gradually turned into a quick-tempered military machine, and what the concessions that the country must make in order to achieve true peace are.
The solution to the Israeli-Palestinian dilemma is not a military one
Why Moscow will introduce a new energy policy
The 90-year long war in the Middle East
How to remain loyal to both your people and country
Palestinian citizens of Israel have a vested interest in a peace agreement between their people and their state. They want to be regarded as full citizens of Israel, but at the same time do not want to give up their ability to impact the country’s policy towards the Palestinian people. They need to help bring back the Arab peace plan, and in the meantime will lick the Gazans’ open wounds, says the author.
The problem with trying to teach in a foreign language
A lot of hope placed in a man with not a lot of room to maneuver
Learn why the enormous expectations placed on the president-elect of the United States are precisely Obama’s biggest problem.
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Sindication
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Will the Palestinian-Israeli conflict continue to exist as a low intensity conflict with sporadic, very violent outbursts like the current Israeli military intervention in Gaza? The answer is no.
Learn about the effective short, medium and long term solutions that would allow the EU to avoid having to deal with a lack of gas during future winters. For the time being, the problem between Russia and the Ukraine is far from having been definitively and satisfactorily resolved.
…Operation Cast Lead in Gaza. And at last, the failure of war. The sleeping children in Gaza who will not grow up and kill. The fate of a millennium-old nation fighting with God; a State, Israel, that is fighting for peace. And at last, peace. Not a single euro, dollar or murder more. Peace…
Filipino students’ scores on the annual international student performance tests in math and science are some of the lowest in the world. Some education policy experts believe that the trouble lies in the language being used for instruction: English.
