Non-Violent BDS Should Be Welcomed, Not Condemned

A thousand Israelis and their supporters gathered in Jerusalem’s International Convention Center on March 28 at a conference aimed at combating the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement (BDS). The conference was a display of “fear, paranoia, anger and...

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A Doctor’s Note

I had a few doctor's appointments and so there's no column today, but never fear – I'll be back on Friday. So please stay tuned to this space. NOTES IN THE MARGIN You can check out my Twitter feed by going here. But please note that my tweets are sometimes...

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Vietnam War at 50: Have We Learned Nothing?

Last week Defense Secretary Ashton Carter laid a wreath at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington in commemoration of the "50th anniversary" of that war. The date is confusing, as the war started earlier and ended far later than 1966. But the Vietnam...

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More Western Military Meddling in Libya Is a Bad Idea

Unbelievably, after causing the chaos in Libya by overthrowing Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi in 2011, the United States is about to lead another Western military intervention designed to unify the country to fight ISIS's strongest cell outside Iraq and Syria, which...

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