Who is winning the coin toss in Syria?
By James G. Zumwalt In an old comedy routine, Bill Cosby jokes about warring parties in history determining terms of battle beforehand by adopting the coin toss—used today by football teams to see who...
View ArticleIsrael and the Syrian chemical weapons deal
HERNDON, Va., Sept. 17 (UPI) — As a U.S. Marine going through basic training many decades ago, light humor occasionally came to the fore. Trainees approaching a safety pit to throw hand grenades for...
View ArticleWarning to Israel
HERNDON, Va., Sept. 24 (UPI) — As Iran gets closer to developing nuclear weapons, Israel has to decide whether to await U.S. military assistance to stop Tehran or to go it alone. Israel should heed...
View ArticleIranian horror movie turns reality
HERNDON, Va., Oct. 1 (UPI) — As a youngster, I found it amusing to watch horror movies depicting characters naively falling victim, repeatedly, to monsters harboring hostile intent. As an adult, I find...
View ArticleA Shifting Middle East Alliance
HERNDON, Va., Nov. 26 (UPI) — The late ventriloquist Edgar Bergen used a dummy named Mortimer Snerd, a character so dumb everything required a full explanation. Finally understanding, Mortimer would...
View ArticleObama’s Misguided Tehran-Bound “Peace Train”
HERNDON, Va., Dec. 3 (UPI) — Listen closely as the Obama administration touts the Nov. 24 Geneva nuclear deal struck between the P5+1 countries (the United States, Britain, France, China, Russia, plus...
View ArticleKerry Turns Blind Eye to West Bank Terror
HERNDON, Va., Feb. 11 (UPI) — Ironically, an idiom originating more than two plus centuries ago — from an act of courage in meeting an enemy threat — today applies to an Obama administration choosing...
View ArticleTehran and the Science of Pro Football
It became obvious in early March Iran’s mullahs are not American football fans. Several years ago, NBC aired the television series “The Science of NFL Football.” One episode, entitled the “Pythagorean...
View ArticlePalestinians Will Not Live Their Dreams as Long as Their Leaders Live Theirs
By James Zumwalt, Special for USDR As Palestinians learn again the consequences of poking a stick into an Israeli beehive, their leaders seem to place the blame for the stings everywhere but where it...
View ArticleObama’s Attitude Towards Iran — and Israel — an Existential Danger for Both...
by JAMES ZUMWALT Mar 2015 With Benjamin Netanyahu’s address to Congress to discuss Iranian nukes on March 3, one need ponder President Obama’s continuing rebukes of the Israeli Prime Minister for doing...
View ArticleBreitbart Oped: THE ‘D.C. SNIPERS’ TERRORIZING ISRAEL
For 23 days during the month of October 2002, residents of the Washington D.C. area lived in utter fear. Snipers, later identified as John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo, took turns randomly...
View ArticleThe Blaze Oped: The Realities of the Iran Nuclear Deal and Israel’s Impending...
A key milestone in implementation of a very one-sided nuclear deal in Iran’s favor—negotiated by an incompetent Secretary of State John Kerry—will be reached on December 15. Despite numerous red flags...
View ArticleThe Blaze Oped: Tashfeen Malik’s Role Immediately Made Obama’s ‘Work Place...
One hopes during his December 18 meeting with families of the San Bernardino massacre victims (pressing vacation plans did not allow him to visit wounded victims), President Barack Obama was more...
View ArticleFSM Oped: UN Resolution Condemning Israel: “Et tu, Barack?”
On March 15, 44 BC, Roman emperor Julius Ceasar, surrounded by a group of 60 senators, was repeatedly stabbed. Initially resisting his assassins, a crestfallen Ceasar saw among them a good friend,...
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