Libya at Threshold of Monumental Events

Western media outlets are once again in throes of panic as they report on the latest developments in Libya. According to French newspaper Le Monde,...

This Is My Farewell Column. I Salute My Brave Colleagues in Israel and Around the World

This will be my last weekly column for Haaretz. It's time for me to retire. Not at all at the initiative of Haaretz. Solely at my own. Not at all...

Bannon's Far Right Christian Army Is Marching on Liberal Europe - and on the Pope

Bannon thinks he's Europe's savior. He's also a narcissist, spinmeister and provocateur. But we shouldn't dismiss his coalition-building efforts to...

Canadian Jews Love Israel. Out of Love, We Must Learn to Criticize It

A landmark survey shows Canadian Jews have a far stronger sense of religious and cultural identity than their U.S. Jewish neighbors. But it also...

Yes, the Media Are Also to Blame for the Sorry State of Israeli Politics

Canada's political compass is veering far right

Recently, Canadian politicians have taken a rebar-hard, right-wing turn in pursuit of victory.  This fact may come as unsettling news to scores of...

Bipolar Markets in the “New Mediocre”

NEW YORK – Financial markets tend to undergo manic-depressive cycles, and this has been especially true in recent years. During risk-ons, investors...

Understanding Japan’s southwest islands buildup

NIIGATA - First, Yonaguni. Then, Amami Oshima and Miyakojima. Next is Ishigaki. Each of those southern islands have seen or will see expansion of...

Key to East Java: How tradition, Nusantara Islam and the religious grass roots helped secure Joko Widodo’s win in Indonesia

Muhammad Rofiqul A’la is a jovial, portly 39-year-old farmer and kyai (Islamic scholar) from Jember in the densely populated province of East...

Why the US Needs to Revisit Its Negotiating Approach to North Korea—And Soon

Weeks after the collapse of the summit between Kim Jong-un and U.S. President Donald Trump in Hanoi, Vietnam, the North Korean leader finally broke...

If Mueller Had the Authority of an Israeli Judicial Commission of Inquiry, Trump Would Be Toast

The claim that Trump would have won the 2016 elections without Russia’s intervention is now patently preposterous

So Which Israeli Prison Is Your Son In?

Keď život imituje umenie

Populárneho komediálneho herca Volodymyra Zelenského môže väčšina voličov na Ukrajine poznať z televízneho seriálu, kde hral postavu...

Israel’s Center-left Must Ditch the Costume and Pivot to the Arabs

Trump Is Guilty as Not Charged

WASHINGTON, DC – The political situation in the United States is more unsettled now than at any time since I began covering it, including the...

UN must do more to end rape in conflict zones

Where there is war, there is too often rape. However, women's bodies are not battlefields, DW's Helena Humphrey writes. It's time to end impunity...

Assange en el banquillo de los acusados

Julian Assange fue acusado por dos mujeres en Suecia por delitos sexuales. Según un escrito de acusación formulado por Robert Mueller, durante...

Acabar con el orden violento en México

La solución, dice Rachel Kleinfeld, radica en re-civilizar a la sociedad y al sistema político. La violencia tiene explicaciones muy claras y...

The Italian Approach to International Relations

Despite being a relatively young discipline, International Relations (IR) have been continuously characterized by a lively debate among different...

The Decline of the SDLP and their European Election Brexit Headache

Once heralded around the world as the vanguard movement for peace and civil equality in Northern Ireland, Northern Ireland’s Social Democratic &...

Playing to Australia’s Strengths in the Bay of Bengal

[David Brewster] Australia needs to pursue an engagement strategy in Bay of Bengal, recognising strategic importance of the regional countries...

My Sister Voted for Israel's Fascists. I Still Love Her

I still care for my sister, West Bank settler and supporter of Israel's most dangerous, tribalistic and virulent racists and fascists. Just hating...

What influences South Koreans’ support for North Korean resettlement?

South Koreans use various terms for those arriving from North Korea, from defector to refugee to new settler. The post What influences South...

Forget the hype: why 5G is about to disappoint you

In case you hadn’t noticed, media commentators and industry analysts are locked in a fierce competition to come up with ever more extreme...

Poroshenko out, Zelensky in: West backed the wrong man in Ukraine & now it’s payback time

It also serves as a complete rejection of the divisive, ethno-nationalist policies pursued by his opponent, Petro Poroshenko, over the past five...

‘Hawkins of Arabia’

I have a venerable comrade in the foreign ministry of Australia. His name is Neil Hawkins, and he was the only non-Japanese boss that I ever had...

Australia's struggling youth may decide election

Where does Malaysia stand on China’s Belt and Road?

AMONG the central narratives that swept the Mahathir Mohamad-led coalition into power in 2018 were two intricately interwoven accusations levelled...

The spectre of a new Maoist conflict in Nepal

About a decade ago it seemed as if Nepal was marching into a new era. After a devastating decade-long war between Maoists and the government, an...

How Abortion Hypocrisy Kills Women

KISUMU, KENYA – Opposition to abortion is so intense that even where women have the legal right to terminate their pregnancy, it can be extremely...

Israeli Soldiers Shot Bound Palestinian Teen Because Live Fire Is Their Only Language

Thai military does not have all the weapons

NATO at 70: Retirement or Renaissance?

US Vice President Mike Pence has recently referred to NATO as, “the most successful military alliance in the history of the world.” Of course,...

American Jews, Resist Netanyahu Like He's Trump

Netanyahu's new government - even more predatory and defiant than before - must usher in a fundamental shift in American Jews’ activism against...

Why I’m voting Brexit in the European elections – George Galloway

Mind you, it was a controversial call. I have spent a lifetime on the left, joining the Labour Party at 13 and spending nearly 30 years in...

World leaders react to deadly Sri Lanka blasts

RELIGIOUS and world leaders have condemned a series of blasts in Sri Lanka that killed more than 150 people on Sunday, including dozens of...

The Emotion of Notre Dame

PARIS – People were chanting, praying, and crying, or just frozen in total disbelief, as the flames engulfed “their” cathedral of Notre Dame,...

Israeli Soldiers Speak Just One Language: Live Fire

All the training, all the equipment, all the prestige of a commando unit ultimately led to a schoolboy, blindfolded and bound, being shot dead

To Listen to Palestinian News Every Morning Is Torture

The Sri Lanka attacks: New front, old wounds

The attacks in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday for many brought back memories of the long ethnic war, which came to a bloody conclusion 10 years ago in...

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We should let China spy on us

NEW YORK - Even as the United States and China seem headed toward a truce on trade, their rivalry is heating up in other areas. The threat of...

It’s time for a green EU deal

BRUSSELS - A “Green New Deal” has become the talk of the town in many of the world’s capitals. Having recently emerged in the United States, the...

Better PR efforts needed in light of WTO ruling on Japanese seafood

A World Trade Organization appeals panel has thwarted Japan’s quest to remove South Korea’s ban on Japanese seafood that was imposed following...

The International Economic Policy Game

TOKYO – Until relatively recently, specialists in international relations had little interest in game theory; some were even “frightened” to...