Quite the most arresting take on world affairs and trends to appear in the major English-language press worldwide at year-end 2013 is a column published on December 26 by Amotz Asa-El in the Jerusalem Post. The piece is entitled "The Year Authority Broke Down." Asa-El is a distinguished Israeli commentator, author, and blogger.  Besides having two advanced Columbia University degrees in journalism, he's the former executive editor of the Jerusalem Post. Asa-El's commentaries appear regularly online and in both the English-language and Hebrew press. These credentials only add to the striking nature of his observations. As might be expected by a conservative Israeli writing from Jerusalem, Asa-El begins with the ongoing debacles of U.S. President Barack Obama. But then, surveying world affairs, he quickly puts our president's meltdown -- which, of course, is particularly threatening to the safety of Israel -- in a larger context. He says: ...(Read Full Post)