After a decade of policies aimed at marginalizing and ignoring the Syrian regime, U.S. policymakers have come to realize that they have very little leverage to pressure President Bashar Al-Assad. As the violence continues, Washington appears to be out of both carrots and sticks.
The wall that divides Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories is ugly and oppressive. It is far from a work of art. But now it is the subject of art. The Jerusalem Fund Gallery’s new exhibition “Breaching the Wall” displays works of 11 different artists that reflect their feelings and artistic reactions to this eight-meter-high concrete wall that runs for 520 kilometers (64 percent of the planned length).
If the United Nations grants Palestine’s request for statehood, Israel may take it out on Iran.
Overturning former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori’s conviction on a technicality could put Peru’s fragile democracy at risk.
One of the Israel Defense Force chief’s greatest fears is the Arab Street.
The United States is apparently backing right-wing candidate Keiko Fujimori in the Peru presidential race to keep the forces of Chavez at bay.
France is attempting to present itself as a diplomatic alternative to the United States, yet its position doesn’t differ significantly from that of the United States.
Even the United States has rejected Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu’s demand that Israel be recognized as the nation-state of the Jewish people.
At best, when taught in schools, extremist religious views dilute the quality of education; at worst, they breed violence.
Ollanta Humala navigates between competing charges that he’s too left and that he abused human rights as a military commander.