Author: Sirocco

I have translated a current op-ed by Kåre Willoch, Prime Minister of Norway for the Conservative Party 1981-1986, on the Palestinian question. Mr. Willoch, b. 1928, is one of the most respected former statesmen in...

From my blog. However much Israel’s war of choice is sold to its Jewish majority as a war of necessity, this doesn’t work with Arabs. Least of all with Israel’s own 1.3 million Arab citizens, many of whom are...

Nearly three out of four Americans think Iraqis are better off now than before the invasion, a survey shows. Iraqi blogger Riverbend might beg to differ. She describes how Baghdad’s middle class is being expelled by...

Crossposted from my blog. Jostein Gaarder, the author of the global literary phenomenon Sophie’s World (printed in 26m copies in 53 languages), launches a scorching attack on Israel in Aftenposten, Norway’s paper of...

When the dust has settled, the Israeli occupation of southern Lebanon will commence. It will soon become the IDF’s waking nightmare, to be inherited by any international stabilization force dumb enough to venture in. Why?...