More than two weeks after Hamas rejected a full ceasefire with Israel, the sides have reportedly agreed to an unconditional three-day lull in fighting for humanitarian reasons. According to a press statement released by US and the United Nations on…
For those of you who may not have been keeping track, Hamas has now failed to respect or violated at least five ceasefires in the current fight with Israel. Time and again, Israel has accepted a ceasefire only for Hamas…
When it rains, it pours in Lebanon. At least when it comes to violence, anyway. Just days after politics turned bloody in a car bomb that killed a former Lebanese diplomat and roughly two weeks after an Israeli soldier was…
The United States has long condemned the Syrian authorities for attacking civilians with missiles, artillery and chemical weapons. On Monday, they made a point of adding a new item to that list: starvation. US Secretary of State John Kerry said…
The largest bet that can be made in poker is to go “all in” – putting all one’s money on just one set of cards. But sometimes in real life, the greatest gamble is by doing little or nothing. And…
It wasn’t long ago that the world was outraged by the horrific videos of Syrian men, women and children dying from poison gas. France, England and then the United States were appalled that the Syrian regime used chemical weapons on…