A heated debate has been going on in America for some time now, especially at the White House, among congressmen, foreign policy analysts at think tanks and leading newspapers, over US foreign policy, particularly the likelihood of US intervention, militarily or otherwise, i

The failure of the UN-led Syrian talks in Geneva last week between representatives of the Syrian regime led by Bashar Assad and a segment of the Syrian opposition was a fireball that scorched all parties, far and near, particularly the Obama administration, which is now intensely

Seeing front-page photos in newspapers or on television last week of Syrian families carrying overstuffed handbags and evacuating their virtually demolished neighbourhood in Homs, in central Syria, which has just entered the fourth year of a devastating civil war, was heartbrea

It was amazing to see how US Secretary of State John Kerry appeared to panic when he was the target of unyielding, sharp criticism of three rightwing Israeli Cabinet ministers for his citing the growing effectiveness of the Palestinian-led boycott, divestment and sanctions progra

Once again, the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, resorted to his infamous flip-flop tactics in the hope of delaying the negotiations for a Palestinian-Israeli peace agreement. His apparent ulterior objective, as recently evidenced, is to expand the territory of Is

A little over 40 years ago, I landed a job at the foreign desk of The Washington Post, a leading American newspaper, just about four years after returning to the United States to settle in Washington for good after the 1967 Arab-Israeli war. My success was due to meeting the pap

This is my $64,000 question to the Obama administration, echoing yesteryear’s popular television programme where if you correctly answered the first question, you got your first dollar and then would go doubling the preceding prize all the time, until one would earn $64,000