In the face of expected Republican gains this year, receiving the support of MoveOn, one of the country's largest progressive advocacy groups, is of p...
An unusual trial begins in Israel this week that people around the world will be watching closely. It involves the tragic death of 23-year-old Rachel Corrie by an Israeli military bulldozer.
By: Geoffrey Mock, Chair of the Middle East Country Specialists for AIUSA It's been nearly four full months since the United Nations called upon both ...
The continued maltreatment of Palestinians puts every Israeli's freedom at risk. If a government disenfranchises your neighbor, how can you expect that your own freedoms will remain intact?
As the US finally announced that it is reinstating an ambassador to Syria, Israel needs to consider some gestures to ease the negative attention it has received and start looking to the North to resolve its own disputes with Syria.
The Goldstone Report is, indeed, deeply flawed. But it is exactly what Israel needs and as long as the country ducks the report, it will not recover from its current state of shock.
Since the Jewish state's military attack on Lebanon in 2006, it has been itching for a "do-over." Why? Because for the first time in its history, Israel did not win a war -- an intolerable outcome by the standards of the Israel Defense Forces.
Israel's international standing has plummeted to an unprecedented low -- and the number of Palestinians killed has concurrently soared -- specifically because of Israel's having done much too much for peace.
The list of UN resolutions, legal bodies, mainstream human rights organizations, and prominent human rights advocates who have recently condemned, wit...
Responding to the Goldstone report, Israeli Defense Minister Barak says "that the Israeli Defense Forces are like no other army, both from a moral standpoint as well as from a professional standpoint." Whew! Well, that's it. Israel is now off the hook.
I'd like to say a word of honor and thanks and, yes, pride for the Israelis, paramedics, physicians, nurses, midwives, and medical imaging technicians...
A year after the Gaza War - two Israelis and a Palestinian gather in a small church in Manhattan to talk about Operation Cast Lead, carried out by the Israeli Defense Forces.
If last year's brutal fighting is any indication - and there is every reason to believe that it is - a full-on drive to prevent the looming Israel-Hamas confrontation should be a top tier priority for President Obama.
It was a decade framed by a fundamentalist Palestinian belief in salvation through suicide and a fundamentalist Israeli belief in salvation through brutality.
CODEPINK's goals have nothing to do with actual Palestinian freedom. Whether CODEPINK is disrupting a Senate hearing or demonstrating in Cairo, its purpose is the same: to vilify American foreign policy.
Monday night, in remembrance of the one-year anniversary of Israel's Operation Cast Lead that killed 1,400 Gazans, and in solidarity with the 1,400 in...
About 500 people, including several hundred Gaza Freedom Marchers and scores of Egyptian citizens, are holding a rally outside the offices of an Egyptian Union of Journalists.
A lot was happening across the world in Cairo yesterday as I and a friend painted faces on our "I am Gaza" signs in preparation for our upcoming "Gaza...
Gandhi said that the purpose of nonviolent action is to "quicken" the conscience of humankind. Citizens of Minnesota are called upon to stand in sol...
At the start of the Gaza war I was on my way walking in the street. I heard the first rocket, the second and the third, at this moment I could see nothing, all I remember was the biggest explosion I have ever seen.
Sitting in the circles of our small groups we move more deeply into each others' minds and hearts. Experiences and feelings that are rarely if ever publicly revealed in tradition-saturated Gaza are shared.
