The Best Ships Are Friendships: Irish Ambassador Eamonn McKee on Diplomacy and the Utilities of History

 Eamonn McKee is Ireland’s Ambassador to Canada, Jamaica, The Bahamas and just recently Antigua and Barbuda. (Ireland has a consulate-general in Vancouver and honorary consulates in Calgary, Edmonton, and St. John’s.) He joined Ireland’s Department of Foreign Affairs in 1986, a year prior to graduating from the National University of

Supporting an Unconditional Ceasefire is Supporting Hamas 

 By Becca Wertman-Traub and Emmanuelle Amar On December 12, Canadian foreign policy showed its hypocrisy, flip-flopping from a statement that clearly condemned Hamas and its role in perpetrating violence against both Israelis and Palestinians, to, just a few hours later, voting in favour of a UN General Assembly resolution that

The recent Gaza war — back to basics

 ABOVE: Israel’s Iron Dome works to blowup incoming Hamas rockets in Tel Aviv. (May 11, 2021, IMAGE VIA SKYNEWS) by Howard Adelman Peter Beinart wrote two important pieces in Jewish Currents, one last summer that claimed, “The painful truth is that the project to which liberal Zionists like myself have devoted

Israeli-Palestinian relations. Geopolitical trends in the relationships of Israelis and Palestinians

 Above: The Israeli security fence separating Israel from the West Bank of Jordan - Judea and Samaria by Howard Adelman This paper is written in three parts. Each is simply a syntheses of conclusions and differences over the analysis of the conflict, surprisingly revealing a broad consensus Part II: Geopolitical Trends in