Israel and the U.S. would both benefit from a transactional relationship. By Lawrence Solomon | Published by Jewish News Syndicate Much is made of the $3.8 billion annual subsidy Israel’s military currently receives from the U.S. Little if anything is ever said of the far greater in-kind annual subsidy—estimated at tens of billions of dollars—that […]
Category: China & Geopolitics
By Lawrence Solomon | Published by Jewish News Syndicate Israeli Jews are widely cast as colonists who immigrated to “Palestine” over the last century and then displaced Palestine’s indigenous Arabs. This narrative has things backward. The Jews are indigenous; the Arabs are the colonists. Israel and its capital Jerusalem were founded by King David, a […]
On the 9th anniversary of the ‘709 crackdown’ on China’s civil rights champions in 2015, a new release looks at its impact on the persecuted lawyers, their families, and the rule of law. By Lisa Peryman | Special to Probe International Available now on YouTube here via The 29 Principles (a U.K.-based organisation supporting lawyers facing human rights […]
A second revised edition of an iconic account of China’s June Fourth Incident launches with Probe International’s Patricia Adams on hand to commemorate the event. By Probe International June 28 | New York: Today marks the launch of the second revised edition of an iconic account of the events that led to China’s Tiananmen Square tragedy, […]
Iran will never allow the Palestinians to negotiate peace with Israel. By Lawrence Solomon | Published by Jewish News Syndicate Apart from its own 780,000-strong armed forces, Iran has assembled a score of armed groups in countries neighboring Israel; all of which, like Iran, are committed to the eradication of the Jewish state. The United States, the European Union and others […]
Reporter, novelist and China’s first post-Mao historical investigative journalist, Dai Qing continues her quest to reveal China to itself. By Lisa Peryman for Probe International A revised edition of Deng Xiaoping in 1989 戴晴 著, an account by the iconic investigative journalist Dai Qing of the events that led to the tragedy of June 4 on […]
A three-stage plan over the next decade or two could catapult Gaza into a manufacturing center and international trading hub. By Patricia Adams and Lawrence Solomon | Published by The Epoch Times Commentary The Biden administration for months has demanded that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu provide a vision for how Gaza would be governed and […]
By Patricia Adams | Special to the Financial Post Donald Trump wasn’t on the ballot in Canada’s 2021 federal election but he was front-and-centre to those who mattered: Justin Trudeau’s Liberals, Erin O’Toole’s Conservatives and Xi Jinping’s Communist Party of China, which intervened late in the game to help the Liberals tilt the balance. Trump […]
The loss of seats changed control over parliamentary committees and the ability to expose wrongdoing. By Patricia Adams and Lawrence Solomon | Published by The Epoch Times Commentary Canada’s press and pundits are understandably heaping scorn on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for his glib claim that “not a single riding” was changed due to the […]
India would be the country most at risk of a major Ebola bioweapons attack. By Patricia Adams and Lawrence Solomon | Published by The Epoch Times Commentary Since the world’s first Ebola outbreak in Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo) in 1976, the world’s bioweapons chiefs recognized the importance of exploiting the Ebola […]