Genocide 20 years ago.
In April 1994, 800,000 Rwandans were slaughtered by their fellow countrymen, most for no other reason than that they were Tutsi and hence a “cockroach”. The killings began on 7 April 1994, the day after a plane carrying the presidents of Rwanda and Burundi was shot out of the sky with a missile as it […]
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Middle East – Russian gains.
In the face of America decline and her loss of strength and reliability, Russia is emerging: ● as a vocal defender of Christianity against Muslim persecution around the world; ● as a plausible peacemaker in the Middle East, with far better relationships with Israel, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and Syria than America has today; ● as […]
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Middle East – America’s losses.
At present none of the strong actors in the Middle East look to the United States for guidance any longer. This includes Egypt, Israel, Turkey, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Iran, and Pakistan and Afghanistan. The waste and failure of two wars in the Middle East has convinced the USA to withdraw. As Rwanda taught the […]
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The USA needs therapy?
We read of the life changing after effects of a brutal rape and we see the victims predictable efforts to cope with the trauma. 1) Her feelings are hurt, anger and there is always fear. 2) Her relationships with men, former friends are now strained as the trauma cast shadows on […]
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Nelson Mandela
Normally I write impersonal commentaries of issues that affect the church, Israel or society at large. This one is personal. Mandela’s name was unfamiliar to me even as I grew up only a few miles from where he spent 27 years. Living in the fairest Cape and playing on its beaches we saw Robbin Island […]
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What Thanksgiving once was…
By the President of the United States of America. A Proclamation by Abraham Lincoln 1789 WHEREAS it is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey His will, to be grateful for His benefits, and humbly to implore His protection and favor; and whereas both Houses of […]
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Revival is the Answer
There are similarities between the dark times we live in now and the dawn of the First Great Awakening. The choices we see now are the same inequalities facing the workers of France and England. France dissolved into chaos and violence…while England had a moral and spiritual revival. A corrupt and even dead church darkened […]
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Palestinian Vote in the U.N.
Palestinian leaders will ask the United Nations vote by Nov. 29, 2012 on whether to admit Palestine as a non-member state. Palestinian Authority President Abbas said he would submit the bid on Nov. 29 –on the 65th anniversary of the 1947 U.N. vote calling for two states, one Jewish and one Arab, in Palestine. The […]
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P.I.G.S. and Autocracy
Twelve years ago, the G20 was established in 1999, in the wake of the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis, to bring together major advanced and emerging economies to stabilize the global financial market. To tackle the financial and economic crisis that spread across the globe in 2008, the G20 members were called upon to further strengthen […]
Read More Arab Spring becomes Israel’s Fall.
The Egyptian revolution that toppled Mubarak also left the Sinai desert vulnerable to militants and opened the borders to Gaza. Militants that escaped an Egyptian prison during the revolution then carried out the attacks on Israelis. Some of the attackers wore brown uniforms, similar to those used by the Egyptian Army. They attacked motorists killing […]
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Toxic Bodies Unburied
Japanese officials believe that hundreds of bodies lie uncollected in the 12-mile evacuation radius around the crippled nuclear power plants, but nobody wants to talk about it. A police officer from the Fukushima prefecture said that weeks after the disaster, “we find bodies in cars, in rivers, under debris and in streets.” Logistical difficulties and […]
Read MoreMiddle East – Global Focus.
The protests in Egypt are ongoing but the Islamists have already toppled the Tunisian regime of Ben Ali. According to security officials Islamists were largely instigating the protests in Tunisia under the cover of a popular uprising. Clearly emboldened by the Tunisian and Egyptian protests, banners were wielded by protesters in Yemen. At risk is […]
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