Check out this piece from Ha'aretz about what Israel is doing to Jerusalem.

"Last year set an all-time record for the number of Arab residents of East Jerusalem who were stripped of residency rights by the Interior Ministry. Altogether, the ministry revoked the residency of 4,577 East...

I am one of those who believe that President Barack Obama actually deserved the Nobel Peace Prize. He deserved it because, in the months since assuming the presidency, he restored the United States from a nation "gone rogue" into the one it has been throughout its history. That is, in...

It appears that the 800 pound gorilla that is AIPAC has been eating regular. The Senate is prepared to vote tonight -- under super expedited procedure -- on AIPAC's legislation that would impose onerous sanction on Iran, cutting the legs out of the President's diplomatic strategy.

Read this analysis...

Max Blumenthal has a terrific piece here on Alan Grayson, the Democratic Congressman from Florida.

It turns out that Grayson -- who opposes America's efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan -- supports Israeli policies 100%, including the horrific Gaza war.

What gives? The answer is simple. Grayson doesn't get any...

It is horrific to contemplate what Gilad Shalit and his family have been subjected to for over three years. Not only has he been imprisoned but the ups and downs of the prisoner exchange negotiations must be torture for his family (and for Gilad himself if he knows what has...

Last week I met with a young Palestinian from Gaza, Mohammed Omer. He is an award-winning journalist with an incredible story.

After meeting him, I went to his presentation at a bistro in town called "Busboys and Poets" (the coolest place in DC these days).

His presentation blew me away....

George Mitchell's job as Middle East Special Envoy has got to be terribly frustrating for a man whose life story has been one success after another.

But the Israel-Palestine conflict tends to be a career destroyer. Former Secretary of State Colin Powell was the most popular political figure in the...

Yossi Sarid, a longtime leader in Israeli politics and an aide to several prime ministers, says it's time for Palestinians to realize that negotiations with Israel will get them nowhere.

They should simply unilaterally declare a state in the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem now.

He writes:

Am I missing something?

On Saturday, I watched the House debate the Stupak amendment restricting access to abortion and noticed that most of the loudest anti-choices voices came from Roman Catholics and Christian fundamentalists who oppose abortion because that is what their faith teaches.

Why is that legitimate? Is not...

What a strange coincidence. On the very day the House was voting on the anti-Goldstone resolution, a far-right Israel group was meeting on the Hill to discuss how "to protect the rights of Jews to live in designated areas in Judea and Samaria (the 'West Bank') and all of Jerusalem."...

By a 344-36 vote (22 voting "present"), the House of Representatives condemned the so-called Goldstone report, which found that both Israel and Hamas committed war crimes in Gaza. (See how your representative voted here)

The resolution basically adopted the Israeli view that the war was necessary and that its...

The good news is that J Street is opposed to it.

The bad news is that the 800 pound gorilla, AIPAC, and its satellite organizations are pushing it hard.

The House resolution, which will pass on Tuesday, basically endorses everything Israel did in the horrific Gaza war while bashing...

Between sessions at the amazing J Street conference, people mill around talking to friends and, sometimes, just a person standing nearby.

I was lucky enough to find myself talking to a young man from Gaza, in Washington for the conference. He is not on the program. He is here to...

In an interview in Sunday's Washington Post, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu may go further than any of his predecessors in rejecting a settlement freeze -- this after President Obama went further than any of his predecessors in demanding one.

In the fifteen years since Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO...

The hit-and-run attacks on J Street are pretty impressive, in a Joe McCarthy/Glenn Beck kind of way.

There sure is a lot of effort going into discrediting an organization that is, in fact, only a little to the left of the "mainstream" pro-Israel organizations and which is "guilty"...

You have to read this piece, featured in Sunday's Washington Post Outlook section. It is huge, or will be, I think, in terms of its impact.

It is written by Joseph Cirincione, an expert adviser of nuclear proliferation for the the Congressional Commission on the Strategic Posture of the...

The neocons are ratcheting it up a few notches. All the way to nuclear war.

Here is what former ambassador to the United Nations, John Bolton, said in Chicago on Tuesday.

"Negotiations have failed, and so too have sanctions...So we're at a very unhappy point -- a very unhappy point...

Israel's ambassador to the United States, Michael Oren, is boycotting J Street's first annual conference. J Street is the new pro-Israel, pro-peace political action committee which has made remarkable strides in its one year of existence. 160 House members and Senators have signed on as "hosts" of the...

The Obama administration offered some mild criticism of Fox News the other day. It called its reporting opinion, and not news, and labeled it a de facto arm of the GOP. Now Glenn Beck has responded by likening this onslaught to the murder of six million Jews.

Beck said: "When...

I continue to be delighted that the President won the Nobel Peace Prize. Yes, it was, in part, given not in recognition of past achievements but prospectively. The Nobel Committee wants him to be the kind of president who earns a peace prize. So do I.

And that pretty much...