Skip Kaltenheuser

Jan 11, 2025 | travelingboy.com | Skip Kaltenheuser

Just a pleasure visiting the wayback, remembering my daughter’s first far-flung travel. And a chance to reprise it for Christmas and New Years wishes from the original Santa Claus. Many lay claim to the origins of the Santa legend, but St. Nicholas, of the ancient city of Myra in Turkey, is the real deal. Trace them back, most other countries’ Santa legends are spinoffs. Santas bring a softer edge to the marble heroes in the Antalya Archeological Museum. Photograph by Skip Kaltenheuser.

Sep 23, 2024 | laprogressive.com | Skip Kaltenheuser |Rob Maurer

The Washington Diplomat recently interviewed Ambassador Riyadh Mansour, the Palestinian ambassador to the United Nations.To describe the backdrop for this interview as a difficult one for Palestinians is at best a massive understatement.

Sep 9, 2024 | washdiplomat.com | Skip Kaltenheuser

As the conflict between Israel and Hamas rages on in the beleaguered Gaza Strip, with a ceasefire proving to be elusive, Riyad Mansour, the Palestinian Authority’s ambassador to the United Nations, advocates for his people and their plight from his perch in New York. The Trump administration closed the PLO’s Washington DC office in 2018, leaving Palestinians without official representation to the White House—and leaving Mansour as an influential voice in the United States.

Aug 23, 2024 | travelingboy.com | Skip Kaltenheuser

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Apr 24, 2024 | laprogressive.com | Skip Kaltenheuser

We do carte blanche funding of an apartheid foreign power which then purchases and threatens both our legislative and executive branches, Federal and state. The country holding captive the birthplace of the religion I grew up with, Christianity, of the ethics that shaped me, has withered beyond redemption. It seems hell-bent on withering spirituality throughout the world. In 1999, I was a guest of Israel, there to write on adventure travel.