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Politics, News & Issues > Politics in the Middle & Near East Understanding the Israeli and Palestinian conflict: 2 of 34
As Israeli diplomat Abba Eban once put it, "the Palestinians never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity". Indeed, the past century of Middle Eastern history provides a seemingly endless array of examples that give backing to Mr. Eban's observation. Israel's very birth came hand in hand with the Palestinian rejection of ... More..
Politics, News & Issues > Politics in the Middle & Near East Should Jerusalem be split between the Israelis and Palestinians?: 2 of 31

As the Jewish state celebrates its 61st year of independence, Israelis cannot help but wonder whether their country will be lucky enough to see the day of its centennial. An astounding 47 percent of Israelis, according to a recent poll, fear the answer is an emphatic no; when you look at the present state of affairs in the re... More..
Politics, News & Issues > Politics in the Middle & Near East Prevailing causes of crisis in the Middle East: 5 of 29
As diplomat Abba Eban once put it, "the Palestinians never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity". Indeed, the past century of Middle Eastern history provides a seemingly endless array of examples that give backing to Mr. Eban's observation. Israel's very birth came hand in hand with the Palestinian rejection of the 1947... More..
Religion & Spirituality > Thoughts on God Does God play dice with the World?: 3 of 16
In their legendary debate over the theory of physical determinism, Niels Bohr and Albert Einstein shook fists and tables as they contended for dominion over the universe and the answers to its underlying mysteries. Bohr was thoroughly convinced that, in spite of the proven predictability of the limited physical processes know... More..
Politics, News & Issues > Terrorism The real meaning of Jihad: 9 of 10
The human being, as the past five thousand years of history have shown, is by design destined to recurrently fall short of recognizing new realities as they seize hold of his world. As noted psychiatrist Ronald Laing once nicely put it, "change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappea... More..