By Anwaar Hussain There is something wrong with me. I see the everyday killing of Shias, Ahmadis and Christians in my fatherland and something in me recoils in horror. While the gruesome acts of these killers are met with a mute applause by most of my countrymen, why is it that these revolt me? They [...]

By Anwaar Hussain Way up on the shadowy ladder in the dark world of spooks comes the name of Mossad. Responsible mainly for intelligence collection and covert operations, including paramilitary activities, it is one of the three institutions in the Israeli Intelligence Community. The other two are known as Aman and Shin Bet  tasked for [...]

By Rowan Wolf I come from a varied background which has taken me on a winding a somewhat tortuous trail throughout my life. There are a series of threads that tie me to Judaism and hence Israel, and to the Palestinians. I come from what is sometimes referred to as “humble” beginnings. In my case [...]

By Daniel Luban The U.S. State Department fiercely denied claims made by Ehud Olmert about his influence over President George W. Bush, in an incident that has stirred up old debates about the role of the Israeli government and the so-called “Israel lobby” in formulating Middle East policy in Washington. On Monday, Olmert claimed that [...]

The Hippasus Blog The Gaza Strip  sits inside a tiny box some 25 miles long and, for the most part, less than five miles wide. At its widest it is well under eight miles wide. It is bounded to the west by the Mediterranean’s most miserable beaches. To the south-west is a seven-mile border with [...]

Chicago circle nurtured him all the way to the top By Tom Hundley   Writer Toni Morrison famously dubbed Bill Clinton “the first black president”-a title he fervently embraced. Abner Mikva, the Chicago Democratic Party stalwart and former Clinton White House counsel, offers a variation on that theme. “If Clinton was our first black president, [...]

By Irfan Husain Among the many changes in attitudes that took place in the West in the wake of 9/11, one was in the way people viewed religion. For the evangelical Christians, the attacks on America by people thought to be Muslims were seen as a new offensive in a centuries-old conflict. But for many [...]