Trust in large US news organisations has reached something of a tipping point: more than half of all Americans now … More
Category: Middle East
Israeli raid leaves 11 dead and 100 wounded
At least 11 Palestinians were killed during an Israeli military raid in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday, according to … More
Lessons From America’s War in the Middle East
For well over 30 years now, the United States military has been intensively engaged in various quarters of the Islamic … More
Japheth lives in Shem’s house and Cainan serves
Genesis 9 And he said, Blessed be the Lord God of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant. God shall enlarge Japheth, … More
Palestinian gunman kills 7 near Jerusalem synagogue
A Palestinian gunman opened fire outside an east Jerusalem synagogue Friday night, killing seven people, including a 70-year-old woman, and … More
Palestinians say 9 killed in the West Bank
The Israeli military on Thursday carried out its deadliest operation in the occupied West Bank in years, killing at least … More
Netanyahu’s Betrayal of Democracy and Israel
This past summer, I marked a personal milestone: 40 years since moving to Israel. The summer of 1982 was one … More
the Ka and the Ba
The ancient Egyptian people lived their lives with two main concerns: a happy life here and being able to enter … More
Don’t Normalize Israel’s Extremist Government
Over the coming weeks and months, the newly formed Israeli governing coalition and its U.S. allies will try to normalize … More
Netanyahu, the godfather of modern Israeli fascism
Fascism has been on the minds of Israel’s friends and foes alike since “the Jewish State” held its latest elections … More
Himyar – Jewish kingdom on the Red Sea in Arabia
In these turbulent times in the Middle East, I have found myself working on the rise and fall of a late … More
Kingdom of Hejaz
The Hashemite Kingdom of Hejaz (Arabic: المملكة الحجازية الهاشمية, Al-Mamlakah al-Ḥijāziyyah Al-Hāshimiyyah) was a state in the Hejaz region in the Middle East that included the western portion … More
‘branches of the Semitic family, Arabs and Jews’
The Faisal–Weizmann Agreement was a 3 January 1919 agreement between Emir Faisal, the third son of Hussein ibn Ali al-Hashimi, King of the short-lived Kingdom … More
A Lebanese Princess and the King of Israel
Jezebel was the daughter of Ithobaal I of Tyre and the wife of Ahab, King of Israel, according to the Book of Kings of the Hebrew Bible (1 Kings 16:31). – … More
A Palestinian Princess and the King of Israel
Naamah was one of the 700 wives and 300 concubines of King Solomon and mother of his heir, Rehoboam, according to both 1 Kings 14:21–31, and 2 Chronicles … More
An Egyptian Princess and the King of Israel
Asenath is a figure in the Book of Genesis. Asenath was a high-born, aristocratic Egyptian woman. She was the wife of Joseph and the … More
The Bedouin
The Bedouin, Beduin, or Bedu (/ˈbɛduɪn/; Arabic: بَدْو, romanized: badū, singular بَدَوِي badawī) are nomadic Arab tribes who have historically inhabited the desert regions in the Arabian Peninsula, North Africa, the Levant, and Mesopotamia. The Bedouin originated in the Arabian … More
Ur in Iraq is the birthplace of the patriarch Abraham
Ur (/ʊər/; Sumerian: 𒌶𒆠, 𒋀𒀕𒆠, or 𒋀𒀊𒆠 Urim; Akkadian: 𒋀𒀕𒆠 Uru; Arabic: أُوْر, romanized: ʾūr; Hebrew: אוּר, romanized: ʾūr) was an important Sumerian city-state in ancient Mesopotamia, located at the site of modern Tell el-Muqayyar (Arabic: تل ٱلْمُقَيَّر) in south Iraq’s Dhi Qar Governorate. Although Ur … More
international mechanism for Syria’s disappeared
One of the many tragedies of the Syrian War is the unresolved fate of the missing and disappeared. Since the … More
UK embassy move to Jerusalem?
It is remarkable to see how Israeli leaders cosy up to bad, unpopular, or even fascist foreign leaders, hoping to … More
Michael Ruark 