There is no other country in the world where so much of the political elite have Ukrainian origins

The astute Kazakh president is likely to strike a careful balance between the interests of Jerusalem and Tehran.

The full text of the speech of Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the 70th UN General Assembly in New York.

It is too intellectually lazy, not to mention dangerous, to stand on the 50-yard line and assert that the two combatants -- a democratic nation seeking nothing from Gaza other than a quiet border, and a terrorist regime calling in its Charter for the elimination of Israel -- are little more than mirror images of one another.

However, one cannot avoid comparisons with Nazi Germany in the 1930s.

We Jews cannot forget millennium-long atrocities and persecutions and we shall never forget about the Holocaust. But we also remember our struggle for freedom and independence. Zionism is a Jewish national movement or Jewish nationalism that proved to have been capable of reviving the Jewish national state on its biblical land.