Israelis, go protest!

Saturday the power of a society will be tested – a society that has finally come alive and grown up after decades of slumber. As the social protest enters its eighth week and the demonstration planned for Saturday is set to be the greatest in Israeli history, it’s time to […]

Netanyahu’s wife in new domestic staff dispute

By REUTERS, ARABNEWS JERUSALEM: The cries for help from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s wife brought her bodyguard running. “Security, security!” Sara Netanyahu shouted inside the couple’s official residence in Jerusalem. Lying on the floor, the Nepalese woman hired to care for the prime minister’s 96-year-old father-in-law was “slamming herself […]

8 back-to-school worries

Source/Credit: Washington Post By Jay Matthews Are you nervous about the new school year? I am. My grandson Ben Mathews, age 2 years and 9 months, is starting nursery school. Our worry is: Will we blow it? Will some flaw in our approach to school condemn our children and grandchildren […]

World leaders to discuss Libya’s future

A contact group comprising 60 countries, aka “Friends of Libya”, is meeting on Thursday in Paris to discuss the future of the country post-Gaddafi. Envoys from Russia and China – the critics of the NATO campaign – will also attend the conference. ­France and Britain, the hosts of the conference, […]