Author: Josef Olmert, Ph.D.

Israel went three times to general elections in a period of eleven months and may go shortly to another one-crazy? Maybe, but still, a situation that can be explained and hopefully also be resolved.

It is arguably the case that of all the great revolutions of the Twentieth Century, one was never given its due attention in the Western world, nor by intellectuals, neither by statesmen despite being of great significance.

The political eruption engulfing the Middle East since late 2010, known [though erroneously] as the Arab Spring spared, until recently, a country whose history, stretching for centuries, has been characterized by frequent bloodshed, large scale violence, in fact, terrible civil wars. This is Lebanon.

After the American invasion of 2003 and the downfall of the Sunni Saddam Hussein regime, and as the country slowly delved into its sectarian civil war, Christopher Catherwood, an adviser to then British PM Tony Blair published his; Churchill’s Folly; How Winston Churchill Created Modern Iraq.

The Autonomous Administration of north and east Syria, or ROJAVA, consists formally, though not necessarily practically [at least before the Turkish invasion] of the sub-districts of Afrin, Jazeera, Euphrates, Raqqa, Tabqa, Manbij, and Deir A Zor. Let us pay special attention to, at least, four of these regions.