BLESSED BE THE PEACE MAKERS… (if their guiding light is true…not false) Sixty-eight years ago I grew old, at twenty two, having been dumped helter-skelter as a three-striper with a bunch of 18-19 year old kids I had never seen
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GROWING STORM CLOUDS (for a possible nuclear war…) Prime Minister Yetanyahu’s recent address to Congress on Israel’s concerns about Iran’s nuclear ambitions, may be correct from his perspectives, but they ignore an even greater threat in the region…one which makes
RESOLVING THE SYRIAN-ISIL CONUNDRUM… ( will require a bi-polar…not a mono-polar approach to succeed.) President Obama’s international coalition to sustain an intensive air-strike campaign against ISIL in Iraq, and now Syria, amounts to a stop-gap measure, and does not do
THE REAL ATROCITY IN THIS CONFLICT (…comes only from its midget-minds mired in mutual tit-for-tat insanity) A month ago Hamas launched another of its periodic assaults against Israel, this time with a hail storm of blindly fired rockets…to which the
ONCE AGAIN THEY’RE BOTH RIDING THAT CAROUSEL (…of Assinus Assinum Fricat…) As that old Latin expression put it several millennia ago…one stupid ass irritates another stupid ass…the wrong way. For almost three quarters of a century the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has
WHY NEITHER E.T.…NOR ANY OF HIS KIN HAVE EVER COME BACK… (…our planet may no longer be the most attractive destination to visit…) It’s an irony of ironies that at this time of the year…when we pause to give lip