WASHINGTON, DC — No sooner had he been sworn into office than President Barack Obama ordered his staff to remove all traces of his predecessor George W. Bush’s DNA from every room of the White House.

If you wonder how come the Israelis don’t know their history, the answer is pretty simple, they have never been told. The circumstances that led to the Israeli Palestinian conflict are well hidden within their culture. Traces of pre-1948 Palestinian civilisation on the land had been wiped out. Not only the Nakba, the 1948 ethnic cleansing of...

Two luxury hotels Taj Mahal and Trident on Sunday wiped out the traces of the unprecedented terror strikes and opened their doors again, exactly 26 days after gun-fire and grenade blasts shook the enduring symbols of the countrys financial capital.