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When Patterson Speaks, We Listen
When Patterson Speaks, We Listen Ambassador Curtis Ward We are living in a period of complex and challenging times. The entire global landscape is experiencing geopolitical and security instability. There is hardly any issue that is entirely local, and every issue is interconnected to varying degrees to competing geopolitical interests, global economic realities, or international security. No country can ignore the competing interests of the most powerful countries. Neither can we ignore the...
Jamaica’s ‘Not voting’ Shame at the UN
Jamaica’s ‘Not voting’ Shame at the UN Ambassador Curtis A. Ward (29 October 2023) — The responsibilities of states to formulate policies, their representatives at the United Nations in New York to execute such policy, requires continuous consultations between the UN Permanent Missions and their respective ministries of foreign affairs, or with the agency of government to which each country’s UN Mission reports. These are appropriate and necessary functions of the respective parts...
Israel-Hamas war could be catalyst for two-state solution
Israel-Hamas war could be catalyst for two-state solution Ambassador Curtis A. Ward (10/21/2023) — The ongoing Israel-Hamas war is already the deadliest in decades for both Israelis and Palestinians. In response to Hamas’s deadly attacks on Israel on October 7, 2023, indiscriminately killing Israeli civilians, including women, children, and the elderly, the taking of hostages across the border into Israel, and destroying Israeli civilian infrastructure, the ultra-right Netanyahu-led...
Biden’s options in the Israel-Hamas War
Biden’s options in the Israel-Hamas War Ambassador Curtis A. Ward (15 October 2023) — The situation in the Middle East, particularly the Palestinian question and Israel’s resistance to a two-state solution and the rights of displaced Palestinians to return to their homeland, has been inherited by successive U.S. presidents. Lack of progress, and often reverse of forward steps advancing peace, has been determined mostly by the ideological determinants of the government in Israel...
Israel’s ultimate response to Hamas could go very wrong
Israel’s ultimate response to Hamas could go very wrong Ambassador Curtis A. Ward (12 October 2023) — The broad-based empathy with the people of Israel could quickly erode if Israel’s response is one of mere vengeance devoid of rationality. While applauded by some, Israel’s scorched earth and indiscriminate bombings of Gaza, as Palestinian civilian casualties rise, could see applause change from defense of Israel’s right to defend itself to international opprobrium and...