Iran: The Truth Hurts

David Harris, 12.20.2009

Executive Director, AJC, and Senior Associate, St. Antony's College, Oxford University

It's as predictable as day follows night. Raise the issue of Iran's nuclear program, as I have more than once, and all Tehran's flacks and flunkies, ...

"Viva Palestina" sees convoy of 86 vehicles en route to Gaza to deliver aid

Richard Hall, 12.18.2009

Human rights, labour rights and the far right.

BEIRUT: It was a typically cold London day in January earlier this year when, in front of thousands of people demonstrating against the Israeli invasi...

Fidelity Fires Four for Playing Fantasy Football : MediaBytes with Shelly Palmer December 17, 2009

Shelly Palmer, 12.18.2009

President, National Academy Of Television Arts & Sciences, NY

You can never be too safe, especially when gambling on the web.

Don't Cut Off the Nose!

Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich, 12.16.2009

The House of Representatives has passed H.R. 2194: the Iran Refined Petroleum Sanctions Act of 2009 by a vote of 412-12. This legislation is intende...

Two Candles in Congress Against the Siege of Gaza

Robert Naiman, 12.16.2009

Policy Director of Just Foreign Policy

Many Americans don't realize that although it might be true that the American Israel Public Affairs Committee can get seventy Senators to sign a napki...

Learn to Live with the Iranian Nuclear Program

Eric C. Anderson, 12.16.2009

Eric C. Anderson is a national security consultant

Iran is going to have a nuclear weapon, and there is little, to nothing, we can do to stop Tehran from realizing this ambition.

Being Anti-Israel and Anti-Zionist Is the "New Anti-Semitism"

Sharmine Narwani, 12.16.2009

Sharmine Narwani is a Senior Associate at St. Anthony's College, Oxford University

I get pretty irritated hearing false cries of anti-Semitism against anyone who criticizes Israel, its human rights crimes, or its settler movement.

Social Media as a Platform for Dialogue in the Middle East

David Saranga, 12.16.2009

Former Consul for Media and Public Affairs at the Consulate General of Israel in New York

Unlike the past, when transparency and accountability were demanded of democratic leaders by their voters, today many leaders are also involved in dialogue with international public opinion and with a global citizenry.

Israel Traps Itself: How Netanyahu's Israel is Less Safe

Hani Almadhoun, 12.15.2009

DC based, Gaza native Stand up Comic

The right wing Israeli government is in bad shape right now. At least that's what a close look at the political arena reveals. The Palestinian leadership isn't looking too great right now, either though.

I Refuse to be your Enemy: Human Rights in the Holy Land

Bradley Burston, 12.15.2009

Columnist for Haaretz and Senior Editor, haaretz.com

I have seen the future. It was last Friday, in the faces of thousands of people marching in the street in Tel Aviv-Jaffa, in the face of a little girl dancing on the shoulders of her father to music.

VIDEO: Israel's Policy of Reducing The Palestinian Population of Jerusalem

MJ Rosenberg, 12.15.2009

Senior Fellow Media Matters Action Network

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 Ea...

Palestinian, Israeli, and Jordanians Unite for Green Blogging Workshop in Amman

Karin Kloosterman, 12.15.2009

Editor, GreenProphet.com

The UN climate change meeting in Copenhagen is putting a lot of pressure on oil-producing nations in the Middle East; but the reality is that most cou...

Israel's Fictional "Undivided Jerusalem."

James Zogby, 12.14.2009

Founder and president of the Arab American Institute

Israel's near hysterical reaction to a Swedish proposal to recognize East Jerusalem as the capital of a future Palestinian state is framed in language that masks their real intent.

Thousands Join Together in Israel's First Human Rights March

Hagai El-Ad, 12.18.2009

Executive director of the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI)

In an unprecedented show of strength, diversity, and optimism, more than 5,000 people marched together in Tel Aviv on December 11, in Israel's first H...

Balconies: Mishka Mojabber Mourani's Extended Self in a Mediterranean Memoir

Magda Abu-Fadil, 12.14.2009

Director of Journalism Training Program at the American University of Beirut

It's a labor of love for Egyptian, Lebanese and Greek balconies, interspersed by wars, displacement, marriage, birth, death, fond family souvenirs, an...

Israel Should Hold Its Fire on Iran

Meir Javedanfar, 12.13.2009

Coauthor of "The Nuclear Sphinx of Tehran: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and The State of Iran"

Some Republicans hope that they can use the president's shortcomings as a vindication for their own policies and world view. To them, a unilateral Israeli strike against Iran's nuclear installations would do just that.

Obama at Oslo: Israel Exempt From International Standards

MJ Rosenberg, 12.12.2009

Senior Fellow Media Matters Action Network

Obama's speech in Oslo was brilliant. And yet, I have one significant problem with Obama's speech. It contained one gaping element of hypocrisy. It concerns Israelis and Palestinians.

Obama Gives Hanukkah Wishes in Hebrew; Birthers Now Claim He Was Born in Israel

Andy Borowitz, 12.11.2009

BorowitzReport.com

Orly Taitz, a leading Birther spokesperson, said today that she had in her possession a birth certificate for Mr. Obama that was issued in Tel Aviv.

Be The Light This Chanukah!

Jason Mannino, 12.12.2009

Career Coach, Life Coach, Speaker/Trainer, Founder: The People Agenda

Choosing to dwell on adversity is a choice. Pervasive throughout this darkness are bright lights that shine inwardly and outwardly. The holidays are celebrations of light and joy over triumph and adversity.

The Race Against Israeli Expansionism: Can the Two-State Solution be Saved?

Omar Baddar, 12.11.2009

Political Scientist, Human Rights Activist

U.S. policy is fully opposed to Israel's settlement expansion. Nonetheless, the U.S. continues to provided Israel with massive military aid and diplomatic support that undermines any chance for peace.

Judah the Maccabee's Five Lessons for Barack Obama

Aaron Zelinsky, 12.11.2009

Articles Editor, Yale Law Journal

From the story of Chanukah, we see how not to fight a guerrilla insurgency. From the Maccabees, we learn how to rally a people and a nation. Here are Chanukah's five geopolitical lessons.