Jordanians are joyfully and proudly celebrating the 59th birthday of their beloved King this week. They are also commemorating the Kingdom’s 100th anniversary.

The recent beheading of French teacher Samuel Paty by an 18-year-old man from Chechenya was a horrific terror crime that deserves the utmost condemnation.

Mahmoud Abbas is caught between the Palestinians and the Israelis.Many Palestinians blame his endlessly conciliatory policy towards Israel for the near loss of their cause.The Israelis and all those who follow them claim Abbas is a rejectionist who shied away from negotiations, u

In examining the authenticity of a historian’s account of the past one often discovers huge gaps between the reality of what exactly happened and the chronicler’s narratives.That also applies to biographies of world leaders.

The United States is the "most warlike nation in the history of the world", That is the judgment of former President Jimmy Carter.Carter ran for office on a platform of human rights, though his presidency from 1977-1981 fell far short of his principles.It was on his watch that th

"To Start a War: How the Bush Administration Took America into Iraq" is a new Robert Draper book exposing the blatant deception of the world leaders who invaded Iraq in 2003 on the purely fabricated pretext of weapons of mass destruction.It adds to mounting revelations of how Pre

From time to time debate erupts over whether two states or one democratic state would be the best formula for a final settlement of the Palestine conflict, when actually neither has ever been on offer.Israel, in compliance with the Zionist plan, never wanted to sign any final agr

Israel is hoping to start a war with Iran before the US elections in November, according to the analysis of Jason Ditz, editor of the news site Antiwar.com.Quoting a Business Insider article from July 16, Ditz observes that recent attacks against Iranian targets have been blamed

Many Palestinian Authority (PA) critics blame it for serving the Israeli occupation rather than dedicating itself to Palestinian liberation and the creation of an independent state.When it was created 27 years ago, the PA was meant to be temporary.