Eric Margolis

Reprinted with permission from EricMargolis.com. One of the world’s, oldest and most dangerous conflicts went critical this past week as nuclear armed India and Pakistan traded threats of war. The Kashmir conflict is the oldest one before the UN. In my book `War at the Top of the World’ I warned that the confrontation over … Continue reading “Will We See Mushroom Clouds Over Kashmir?”

Reprinted with permission from EricMargolis.com. President Donald Trump gets a lot of things wrong. Chief among them is his crazy plan to ethnically cleanse two million Palestinians from the smoking ruins of Gaza. But he also gets some very important things very right. Trump managed to end the longest war in US history, Afghanistan, by … Continue reading “Fire the Washington War Party”

Good work, Mr. President Biden. You have managed to do what America’s enemies have not – creating widespread hatred for the United States around the globe. Your destruction of the Gaza refugee camps has inflamed antisemitism everywhere. There is widespread disgust and anger at the US government over your decision to give Israel’s new far … Continue reading “Murder in Gaza”

Reprinted from EricMargolis.com. When I was a boy growing up in New York City I was taught – and re-taught – to always save half of my weekly allowance and never spend more than I had in savings. Too bad Joe Biden was not taught this useful Presbyterian virtue. Recently, Biden’s government has sought $106 … Continue reading “Don’t Spare the Billions”

It’s not a real war. The bloody carnage in Israel and Palestine that we now witness is a large prison uprising being crushed by Israel’s military might. M-16 lightweight rifles against Merkava tanks; home-made rockets (little more than flying pipe bombs) versus U.S.-state of the art F-15 and F-16 fighter bombers; a few thousand Hamas … Continue reading “How Much Longer Will Palestinians Be a Martyr People?”