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Sunday 5 July 2009 (12 Rajab 1430)

Editorial: N. Korea missiles

North Korea’s firing on Saturday of seven medium-range ballistic missiles, no doubt to mark US Independence Day, has produced predictable international reactions, not least from South Korea and Japan.... Full Story


Dangers of political capitalism

Power is the pre-eminent value in Delhi’s value system. I was tempted to write “only” instead of “pre-eminent”, when some passing sympathy for exceptions interfered with the syntax. A sidelight of... Full Story


Ethnic cleansing as a state policy

In his speech at Bar Ilan University on June 14, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu proposed a new Israeli “peace plan,” with preconditions that a Palestinian negotiator must first meet before... Full Story