Aditya Divakar Karkera

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Jul 22, 2015, 11:24 PM

Is the diplomacy behind the Iran deal “naïve”?

There are very few things that both sides of the political spectrum can agree upon, but one such thing is that the recently concluded Iranian nuclear weapons deal is historic. One side says that it is a historic triumph, the...

Apr 3, 2015, 6:39 PM

Why Netanyahu is dead wrong on Iran

As the historic Iranian nuclear deal made this week makes headlines everywhere as a triumph of diplomacy over warmongering, the conclusions we can draw from the Iranian negotiation table are ones that are not only contrary to the popular...

Dec 31, 2014, 8:39 PM

What Palestine’s failed bid means for Israel

As the United Nations Security Council shot down an ambitious statehood bid presented to it by the Palestinian Authority, cutting through the hubris - one fact remains clear - Israel is losing friends, and fast. Regardless of how you look...

Oct 31, 2014, 5:40 AM

Israel needs critics

Israel has, over the course of the past few weeks, been engulfed and broiled in a series of tense diplomatic, military, and religious stand-offs, scandals, and seething ultimatums. It's actions have been condemned by everyone from British members of Parliament...

Sep 17, 2014, 11:07 AM

ISIS is not Muslim

says a religion of 1.6 billion people cannot be judged based on the actions of a relatively small number

Aug 11, 2014, 1:08 PM

The first time I met a Jew

He grew up in a society that despises Jews; and then, in New Haven, Connecticut, he encountered one

Aug 10, 2014, 7:16 AM

Learning from Entebbe

They call it the IDF's most daring military operation - I call it an important political lesson. To those who are unfamiliar, Entebbe is an international airport in Uganda that served as the site of a hostage crisis in 1976,...

Jul 22, 2014, 7:53 AM

Why do governments stand with Israel when their citizens do not?

Simply put: because Israel is the only reliable friend most nations have in the Middle East. The United States of America has gone to war a dozen times in the past few years to defend human liberty, human rights and,...

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About Me

Aditya Karkera is an Indian freelance writer. He is a blogger at The Huffington Post, contributing writer to the Times Of India and a Yale Young Global Scholar of Grand Strategy.