Pete Souza/The White House/Polaris Sir Hew Strachan, an advisor to the Chief of the British Defense Staff, made some ripples across the pond with his judgment on the U.S. president’s foreign policy. “Obama has no sense of what he wants to do in the world,” Strachan said. Coming from a world-class military historian, it was […]
Economics Minister Naftali Bennett released a statement on his Facebook page Friday, discussing the talks which have resumed between Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA). Bennett cites history once more in his statement, and explains the extent of the US’s involvement in a possible peace deal. “Recently we’ve been hearing a new tune: an international […]
The head of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) on Tuesday called on Israel to renounce chemical weapons and join the convention banning them. Speaking to Reuters, OPCW head Ahmet Uzumcu, whose organization has been leading the mission to destroy Syria’s chemical weapons arsenal, also called on Egypt and North Korea to […]
A US investigative journalist has charged President Barack Obama with knowing that a Syrian terrorist rebel group had the capability to produce chemical weapons – but ignoring it and placing blame on Syrian President Bashar Assad’s regime instead, according to the Business Standard. Veteran journalist Seymour Hersh published a scathing article in the London Review of […]
The international chemical weapons watchdog said Friday it has verified the destruction of all of Syria’s unfilled munitions, another milestone along the road to eradicating President Bashar Al-Assad’s chemical weapons program by mid-2014, reports The Associated Press (AP). The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons said in a statement quoted by AP that its […]
Karl Marx said, “History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.” A short travel through history reveals that it keeps repeating itself as tragedy after tragedy because we stubbornly refuse to learn from it. British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli returned from Berlin in 1878 stating, “I have returned from Germany with peace for our […]
Syria has destroyed all of its declared chemical weapons production facilities, according to a Reuters report based on documents provided by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW). OPCW teams have inspected 21 of Syria’s 23 chemical weapons site. The remaining two sites are deemed too dangerous to inspect due to fighting in […]
by Daniel Pipes National Review Online September 17, 2013 [Differs in minor ways from the NRO version.] Diplomacy has never witnessed anything like the dizzying and erratic sequence of events relating to Syria that began on Wednesday, Aug. 21 and ended 3½ weeks later, on Saturday, Sept. 14. Who won, who lost? It’s too soon […]
September 16, 2013 13:25 by Pesach Benson How enforceable is Russia’s plan to get rid of Syria’s chemical weapons? Col. Richard Kemp, the former commander of British forces in Afghanistan, told the Jerusalem Post that Moscow’s plan isn’t realistic because A) no country will volunteer to send inspectors into the midst of a brutal civil […]
September 15, 2013 16:42 by Pesach Benson Assad’s scattering his chemical weapons to as many as 50 sites, and even preparing to hide more in Iraq. The movements of chemical weapons by Syria’s elite Unit 450 could complicate any U.S. bombing campaign in Syria over its alleged chemical attacks, officials said. It also raises questions […]
