Showdown Over Statehood Bid

[T]he international community is waiting with bated breath to see what next the [U.S.] authorities will do to inadvertently expose Fifa’s blatant hypocrisy.

Israel’s spying activities have always been brushed under the carpet by compliant American politicians.

[T]he great powers court rising generations when they sense shifting power.

Returning to the moon is no longer a state mission, but a market.

Trump is not exactly a legal scholar. If he wanted to dispatch his gunboats here, he wouldn’t need a judicial pretext.

[Trump] disregarded Arab national interests, foremost among them the Palestinian issue and its legitimate, legal aspirations.

So, to succeed in the trough of graft, a politician must have a profusion of scandals, so many of them all at once such that they would eventually overwhelm the system’s capacity to cope.