The Notes Taken

The title of my blog may sound like I'm insulting Middle Eastern Christians. I know that every Middle Eastern Christian has not been dee...

There are many revolutionary events in the Middle East and North Africa. This year has seen the beginnings of what is often called the ...

After years of a failed peace policy the Palestinian Authority is unilaterally going to the UN and will apply for statehood. The US governme...

A few years ago I could not find one Arab friend that had anything good to say about Turks. One Jordanian man told me, "The Turks used ...

In the West Bank there are more indigenous groups other than Arab Palestinians and the tiny amount of pre-Zionist settler Jews. There is ano...

Wolf Blitzer currently is an anchor on CNN. In 1989, before working for CNN, he debated the scholar Norman Finkelstein regarding the Israel/...

"Israeli forces have attacked the international aid convoy Freedom Flotilla en route to the besieged Gaza Strip, killing at least 10 pe...

Several decades ago when the late Rabbi Meir Kahane was a member of the Knesset, Kahane debated Likud Party member Ehud Olmert on ABCs Night...

In this brief clip the leader of Lebanon's Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah, calls Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez "brother."...