Come September, the UN General Assembly will consider the Palestinian Authority’s request to be admitted as a member. Historically, the UN has played a major role in the Palestinian refugees’ problem; it could now bring to its resolution. Fact: According to the UN, there are five million Palestinians, mostly members of the third, fourth and […]

Huffington Post OpEd 3/1/2011 “Quo vadis?” (where are you going? in Latin) asked St. Peter fleeing from certain crucifixion in Rome, when he met Jesus. According to the apocryphal Acts of Peter, Jesus answered, “Eo Romam iterum crucifigi, (I am going to Rome to be crucified again.” ) Is it time to ask, Quo vadis […]

The Huffington Post Op Ed 7 14 10 In June 2007 Ashraf Marwan, an Egyptian businessman, fell to his death from the balcony of his London apartment. Did he fall, jump or get a push? These questions have lingered for the past three years and remain unanswered. If he was murdered, then his death could […]

The Huffington Post Op Ed 6 16 10 On May 14, 1876, the New York Times ridiculed the Ottoman Empire, reminding its readers that “It is now some twenty years since we began to hear about the ‘sick man upon the Bosphorus,’ yet the same sort of talk, under somewhat different conditions, is current today. […]