Isn’t the onus on Israel to make the peace deal in the Middle East? Since the creation of Israel by its benefactors the US and the UK as a safe haven for the Jewish people after the holocaust, the West has paid with many lives for the upkeep of Israel.
It seems very clear that Israeli negotiators are stalling and [...]

They may say it’s for peaceful purposes, but Iran’s President Ahmadinejad has gleefully announced that Iran has three thousand centrifuges busily working to produce fissile material. True, it’s a long way from completing production of the bomb, but this landmark is another step to Iran’s goal of countering Israel’s advantage in being the only nuclear power in [...]

This has been going on for a while, and a good idea too. If there is the possibility to hold talks with the Taliban, zealots that they are, MI6 should proceed. Hopefully MI6 officers don’t forget you can’t believe much the Taliban agree to. Perhaps this motley group of bearded religious fundamentalists can be turned to go [...]

After years of suffering rocket attacks from the Gaza strip, Israeli officials have put in place a plan to disrupt the electricity supply to Gaza, hoping this will prove a lever to restrain Palestinian terrorism groups.
The trouble is, as shown in Iraq where services like electricity have been unreliable for years, many areas only have a few hours [...]

Shame that the triumphal return of Benazir Bhutto was marred by possible Taleban extremism. Pakistan is teetering on the edge of going the way of Afghanistan, with religious zealots, like a Spanish Inquisition from the 17th century, thinking that God rewards murderers.
Of course Bhutto has many enemies from political parties within Pakistan, her father was [...]

Salesman Vladimir Putin put on a brave show yesterday on his sales visit to Tehran and the Caspian sea region. It’s not good for Russia energy sales if the US builds pipelines through former Soviet countries bypassing Putin’s sales patch. So the more the US pushes for the oil pipelines to bring energy to the [...]