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Why, it is often asked, is the Arab-Israel conflict so intractable? Part of the reason is that the various protagonists live each in a mental framework that ignores fundamental facts. Mostly these facts have been reported in the public media. But their significance is overlooked because it lies outside the virtual realities that those protagonists have created for themselves over long years. Thus it is that the Hamas victory in Gaza has left the "international community" flummoxed. Once again, the inevitable arrived to everyone's surprise. For weeks, the area had been awash in a stream of visiting foreign ministers. Each...

RUSSIA'S RADICAL NEW FIGHTER Russia’s fabled Sukhoi Design Bureau builds the S-37, a 21st century fighter to go head-to-head with our F-22. By MALCOLM V. LOWE Photos by Katsuhiko Tokunaga/DACT and courtesy of R-Avix; Illustration by John Batchelor

THE JEWISH QUESTION IN THE RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH Chapter 1| Chapter 2| Chapter 3| Conclusion| Back to Reading Page THE JEWISH QUESTION IN THE RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH Gregory Benevitch Chapter 1 If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously commiting evil deeds and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the dividing line between good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being, and who is willing to destroy his own heart? Alexandr Solzhenitsyn The Gulag Achipelago. ANTI-SEMITISM IN THE RUSSIAN ...

As the Voice of America itself reported on January 23, Erdogan's plan was to resettle three million or more refugees from other parts of Syria in this "security zone" extending twenty miles deep into Syria. Twenty miles may not sound much, but – the VOA omitted to mention – almost all the Kurdish towns of northeastern Syria lie within that area. So Erdogan's intention to annihilate the Kurdish presence in that area and replace it with others has been manifest ever since the beginning of 2019. A whole series of Trump's Republican supporters in the Senate expressed outrage over his...