Paul Balles

ISRAELI HAWKS RESISTING DEALS

ISRAELI HAWKS RESISTING DEALS
 
Paul Balles
 
To the Israelis, any deal made between the world powers and Iran would be a bad deal.
It’s obvious from Israeli reactions to the talks in Geneva that the only action acceptable to Israel would be to bomb Iran.
Minister of Military Affairs Moshe Ya’alon describes any agreement with Iran as “a historic mistake”.

ISRAEL BENEFITS AS WORLD LOSES

ISRAEL BENEFITS AS WORLD LOSES
 
Paul Balles
 
Is there any point in public debate in a society where hardly anyone has been taught how to think, while millions have been taught what to think? --Peter Hitchens
 What started off as Arab Spring has turned morbidly into Arab Fall. What began as a seasonal description became directional and self-destructive.

Islamophobic Injustice

Islamophobic Injustice
 
Paul Balles
Sami Al-Arian’s story is one of the most appalling tales of brutal, horrifying, unjust treatment of a Palestinian victimized by Americans.
Al-Arian, born as a Palestinian refugee in Kuwait, went to America in 1975.
According to his website biography, he began teaching computer science at the University of South Florida in 1986, and was active politically in Muslim causes.

PROVE WHAT YOU DON’T HAVE

PROVE WHAT YOU DON’T HAVE
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani pledged that Tehran would never develop nuclear weapons.
 
by Paul Balles
 
Prove that you don’t have what I believe you have! That was an exact demand made on Saddam Hussein.
He scoffed.  That brought “shock and awe”, and Saddam was hanged on the mother of all ropes.
Prove that you don’t have weapons of mass destruction (WMDs).