by Amir Taheri | Jan 6, 2017 | Opinion
In the days that Fleet Street was the home of the British press many clichés circulated in the public bars as gospel truth of journalism. One such was the claim that the safest issues to write an editorial about were Palestine and Afghanistan. Six hundred words on why...
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry. (Photo: Carlos Barria / Reuters)
by Rashid Khalidi | Jan 3, 2017 | Opinion
In a speech this week laying out the Obama administration’s parameters for a final peace agreement between Israel and Palestine, Secretary of State John Kerry stated what has been obvious to most observers for many years: that Israel’s construction of Jewish...