President Barack Obama’s statement today on Holocaust Remembrance Day (Yom haShoah) references the Adolf Eichmann trial, which were central to the Israeli psyche’s grappling in the afternoon of the systematic slaughter of six million Jews. Prior to the Eichmann trial in Israel, Jews who emigrated to Israel did not often speak about their experiences in […]
The location of Osama’s death underlines the work required on Pakistan After a decade of anxiety, fear and anticipation, the friends and families of the victims of 9/11 have finally received closure. Osama bin Laden was killed in his hideout in Abbottabad in Pakistan through a special operation by US forces in the wee hours […]
During this so-called Arab Spring, Middle Eastern dictators have attempted to suppress revolutions by murdering demonstrators, prompting the Obama administration to condemn those actions in the “strongest possible terms.” It appears that Hamas, the Palestinian Authority’s new governing partner, has reserved that kind of condemnation for the U.S. attack that killed terrorist mastermind Osama bin […]
European leaders seem to ardent letter writers, after Sarkozy’s and Berlusconi’s co-missive to EU Commission President Barroso, the latter has now replied. In the case of the Franco-Italian letter dealing with a – supposed – immigration crisis caused by more than 20,000 recent arrivals from Tunisia, most observers focused on the proposal of a temporary […]
Zainab Jeewanjee comments on America’s killing of Osama bin Laden. She describes a resilient, rejuvenated United States that has an opportunity to foster new relationships with our allies, namely Pakistan.
After shooting down a proposal to adopt daylight-saving time, Tokyo decided to start Cool Biz May 1 and extend it until Oct. 31 to save energy. Cool Biz is a campaign introduced in 2005 that encouraged government and office workers to wear casual clothes rather than suits and ties during the summer months to reduce […]
President Obama is about to address the nation and declare that U.S troops have killed Osama Bin Laden, and that the U.S military is in possession of his body. The most wanted man in the world, responsible for the attacks on American soil on September 11, 2001 is now dead. The man whose actions led […]
General David Petraeus’ appointment at the new Director of Central Intelligence has been a well-regarded move within Washington D.C.’s political establishment. Islamabad, however has shrunk away from President Obama’s national security reshuffle that has now churned up the highest ranks of the Pentagon’s civilian and military leadership, as well as that of the nation’s top […]
These are troubling times for Lebanon. Even for a country under the thumb of Damascus, things seem to be out of their control. The most anyone can do is just wait and see. Since 1963, Syria has been under control of the Baath party. Hafez Assad took power in 1970 and ruled the country with […]
A 4.02 trillion yen ($49 billion) supplementary budget is expected to be enacted Monday. The first extra budget for fiscal 2011 cleared the lower house of parliament Saturday. The budget came in response to the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, and will be used to finance initial reconstruction measures, such as cleaning up the massive […]
The Taliban declared that, on Sunday April 31st, they would begin operations on their spring thaw military strategy against “the foreign invading forces“. The Taliban, the self-proclaimed Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, promised to attack U.S and NATO assets and soldiers as well as businessmen who wish to work with Western institutions and agencies. Officials close […]
Twenty five years separates us from the worst nuclear disaster in the history of mankind. I recently wrote about the 50th anniversary of human spaceflight and realized that a mere 25 years also separated April 1986 from Gagarin’s first human spaceflight in April 1961. On an early Saturday morning in April of 1986 at 1:23 […]
On a backdrop of rising nationalist sentiments in Europe, the refugees of the Arab Spring have put pressure on one of the EU’s most significant achievements; the Schengen Agreement. This agreement allows unrestricted travel between Schengen’s 25 participants. The project that in a very tangible way symbolizes the idea of an integrated and united Europe […]
The reconciliation between the Iran-backed terror group Hamas and the West Bank-governing Palestinian Authority will not result in an inherent repositioning of either group or the moderation of proposals to wipe Israel off the map and instill a government operated under the auspices of radical Islam. That inherent radicalization of the Palestinians could, though, benefit […]