Irish Spat over Israeli Visit

The Republic of Ireland’s foreign minister has criticised a town council’s decision to remove a page from its visitors’ book after it was signed by the Israeli ambassador.  A visit by Zion Evrony to Carrickmacross, near the border with Northern Ireland, was met with protests from local councillors, who proposed that the Israeli ambassador’s entry in the book be erased. Foreign minister Micheál Martin said he regretted the move, adding that while he shares the “deep ...

Many important events mark our lives. But what value or significance would you attribute to a trivial experience, like, say, a case of insomnia?
On a broader scale how do you see your overall life: Is your life disjointed or cohesive? As you live from day to day, do you ever feel that in your struggle for survival you may be missing the bigger picture? Does the minutiae of your schedule (work, pressures) shroud your larger priorities – like finding love and building a relationship? In time of pain and anguish, are you able to recognize that these dark moments may be ...

Of late it’s been a tough time for those working to prevent genocide. Darfur has been off the world’s radar screen for months. Then there are the poor Armenians. It wasn’t enough that 1.5 million were murdered in a genocide perpetrated by the Ottomon Turks during the First World War. Turns out that for the sake of appeasing Turkey and its increasingly militant Islamist Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, President Obama is prepared to rewrite history and deny there was ever a genocide in the first place. Breaking his campaign promise of January, 2008, where he said that he “stood with the Armenian American community in calling for Turkey's acknowledgement ...