October 9, 2009,
By: Michael Rowan; El Universal
Opinion
Fidel Castro wanted a pre-emptive Soviet nuclear strike against the United States in 1982, according to recently disclosed documents of Soviet General Andrian A. Danilevich. Castro was only dissuaded when Soviet scientists explained to him that fallout from the blasts could cause millions of deaths in Cuba itself. [...]
Is the Tripartite Summit simply a photo op for President Obama, or a real attempt at progress?
By MICHAEL FREUND
The Jerusalem Post
For a president who has been in office for just over seven months, Barack Obama can at last point to some meaningful change that he has brought about in the Middle East.
Thanks to his administration’s arm-twisting and bullying of Jerusalem over settlements, Obama has unwittingly succeeded in galvanizing the Israeli [...]
To mark Ramadan, Egyptian fruit sellers have named their best dates of the year after Obama in a tribute to the American leader for his outreach to the Muslim world.
Dates are a traditional food for Ramadan – which begins Saturday in most of the Islamic world – since the Islamic Prophet Muhammad is said to [...]
Visiting Israel this week, Mike Huckabee, who was among the Republican presidential hopefuls in the last election, said: “There is no room for a Palestinian state’ in the middle of the Jewish homeland, and Israel should be able to build settlements wherever it wants.”
He also said: “The question is, should the Palestinians have a place [...]