Iran’s Worsening Water Crisis

It is against the backdrop of Iran’s critical water shortage that the recent US transfer of funds to the Islamic Republic should be appraised When the well is dry, we know the worth of water—Benjamin Franklin (1705-1790). The problem [of water scarcity] that threatens us — and is more dangerous than Israel, and the U.S., […]

Israel is at War: Hamas’ Barbaric Attack Merits Firm Response

Israel is at war. This is not a slogan, this is the reality. This is a war on our home.  Unfortunately, Israel is accustomed to battles, wars and military operations – but what we saw this Saturday, October 7, 2023 – is completely different from what we have known until today.  Israeli citizens were kidnapped, […]

Gaza: The tragically belated death of a “conception”

The political rationale of the Gaza conflict can be expressed in the inexorable logic of an almost mathematical algorithm—studiously ignored by Israel’s policy-making echelons   “The enemy of …conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events”—John Kenneth Galbraith Saturday 7th of October marked the demise of conventional wisdom and of “respectable” Establishment perceptions […]