
American detained in the Russian Compound by: David Ben-Ariel Nobody arrested me. I was DETAINED when I faithfully reported to the police office at 9 a.m. Monday morning, January 9, 1996 (day before my birthday) the day after The Jerusalem Post published on their front page an article shedding light on what they were doing [...]
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Edward Abington: Political Prostitute by: David Ben-Ariel “The American Diplomat in Arafat’s Corner,” published in The Jerusalem Report, came as no surprise to me. It was referring to Edward Abington, Jr., the United States’ former consul general in Jerusalem who is now “guiding the Palestinians through the labyrinths of Washington. And his firm is being [...]
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Dangerous Ideas? by: David Ben-Ariel A three judge Israeli panel permitted certain women to have services at the Western Wall, noting they “have the right to pray according to their custom…It is unacceptable that concern about a violent reaction by any sector of the public will lead to denial of the exercise by another sector [...]
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Democratic Globalism by: Doug Krieger (Note: This article was written as a response to Charles Krauthammer’s presentation on “Democratic Globalism” in 2004 . . . its immediate reflections are all the more significant, given the on-going geopolitic realities we face nearly a 1.6 years later.) The United States of America is no longer hiding her [...]
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OK! Now I Am Ready To Close Gitmo! by: J.J. Jackson A friend of mine and I were talking about the horrible claims of abuse by our soldiers in the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Gitmo has been the source of many complaints over the way we have been treating those captured waging a war [...]
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