Following last year’s failed attempt by the Palestinian Authority (PA) to gain admission to the United Nations as a full member state via UN Security Council vote (known as the Unilateral Declaration of Independence, or UDI), PA President Mahmoud Abbas
(AP) Palestinians certain to win recognition as a stateBy EDITH M. LEDERERAssociated PressUNITED NATIONSThe Palestinians are certain to win U.N. recognition as a state Thursday but success could exact a high price: Israel and the United States warn it could
Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak, who is Israel’s most decorated soldier but was also the Prime Minister who once offered Yasser Arafat 98% of Jerusalem, announced his resignation Monday. Barak said he wants to spend more time with his family.
The announcement by Israeli defense minister Ehud Barak that he will leave politics after Israel’s elections in January 2013 is being treated as a surprise by both Israeli and international media. Yet in reality, Barak’s departure–his second retirement, after losing
(AP) In shocker, Israel’s Barak quits politicsBy AMY TEIBELAssociated PressJERUSALEMIsraeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak on Monday abruptly announced he was quitting politics, injecting new turmoil into the Israeli political system weeks ahead of general elections. Barak, Israel’s most-decorated soldier and
Separatist parties in Catalonia have won a regional election, further pushing the leadership to consider holding a vote to break with Spain. Supporters of Catalan President Arthur Mas, who has moved from a moderate position to the separatist camp over
On Thursday, Mexico’s lame-duck president Felipe Calderon announced he will attempt to formally change the country’s name by taking “United States” out of it. Mexico is officially referred to as “United Mexican States” or “Estados Unidos Mexicanos.” Calderon would like
Nothing against the neighbors, really. Mexico’s outgoing President Felipe Calderon has suggested that the United States of Mexico change its name to, well, just plain Mexico. Mexico, which means Navel of the Moon in the indigenous Nahuatl language, was called
By AYA BATRAWYAssociated PressCAIROEgypt’s highest body of judges slammed on Saturday a recent decision by the president to grant himself near-absolute power, calling the move an “unprecedented assault” on the judiciary. The statement from the Supreme Judicial Council came as
By MAGGIE MICHAEL and AYA BATRAWYAssociated PressCAIROSupporters and opponents of President Mohammed Morsi clashed Friday in the worst violence since he took office, while he defended a decision to give himself near-absolute power to root out what he called “weevils
By DALIA NAMMARIAssociated PressRAMALLAH, West BankThe remains of former Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat will be exhumed Tuesday as part of a renewed investigation into his death, a Palestinian investigator said Saturday. Arafat died in November 2004 in a French military
Retiring Texas Congressman Ron Paul (R) wrote on Monday that he felt secession is a “deeply American principle” in response to the petitions the White House has received from Americans from all 50 states asking to allow their states to
A bipartisan group of 18 senators, led by Sens. John Hoeven (R-ND) and Max Baucus (D-MT), wrote a letter to President Obama asking for a meeting about the trans-continental Keystone XL Pipeline. Moody’s, the ratings agency, forecasted the Obama administration
Catholic.org reported: Martin Luther King’s “Letter from the Birmingham Jail” (April 16, 1963) is one of our nation’s elegant testimonies to the political implications of our Declaration of Independence: Indeed, there may be more theological letters written from the confines
Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash.) hit the nail on the head on CNN’s “State of the Union” Sunday: “I don’t think it’s about the Republican Party needing to become more moderate. I really believe it’s the Republican Party becoming more
(AP) Puerto Rico vote endorses statehood with asteriskBy BEN FOX and DANICA COTOAssociated PressSAN JUAN, Puerto RicoPuerto Ricans have supported U.S. statehood in a vote that jubilant members of the pro-statehood party say is the strongest sign yet that the
Traditional Democrat spin dictates their party cares about the concerns of the poor, while Republicans care about the rich. However, the person who has been spending perhaps the most time addressing the problem of poverty in the United States is
By MATTHEW BARAKATAssociated PressMcLEAN, Va.Wars and video games seem to go together like peanut butter and jelly. But those games usually involve tanks and machine guns and Tet offensives; not horses, bayonets and Bunker Hill. Now, though, one of the
Obama made a major immigration speech last year casting the need for reform in economic terms and explicitly connecting it to jobs and the middle class. But the glossy jobs booklet the President is promoting in swing-state appearances makes no
Thomas Jefferson understood that for our democracy to survive, the United States needed a free press to keep government and elected officials accountable. Indeed, Jefferson was such an outspoken proponent of free speech and a free press that he once
By BASSEM MROUE and ELIZABETH A. KENNEDYAssociated PressBEIRUTMilitants carrying assault weapons clear the area around a street, shouting in Arabic for people to get out of the way. A jeep pulls up: The world’s No. 1 jihadi has arrived for
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com: England and Scotland agree to a referendum on Scottish independence European negotiations for Greece bailout will miss another deadline Germany does U-turn and rules out ‘Staatsbankrott’ for Greece England and Scotland agree to a
Amendment V in the Bill Of Rights states the government is not allowed to seize private property for public use without just compensation. Landowners on the border of America and Mexico claim the government is not compensating them to seize
This weekend in the Colorado Springs Gazette, Colorado Springs Mayor Steve Bach wrote that the debate between President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney in Denver was “a microcosm of everything that has been wrong with the Obama presidency.” “President Obama was
The leader of the Philippines’ biggest Muslim rebel group is due to arrive in Manila on Sunday for a historic visit aimed at ending one of Asia’s longest and deadliest insurgencies. Murad Ebrahim and other senior figures of the Moro
