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.
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.
I get pretty irritated hearing false cries of anti-Semitism against anyone who criticizes Israel, its human rights crimes, or its settler movement.
My mouth is fixed in a gape -- unable to correct itself after Thomas Friedman's pronouncement that for two decades, U.S. foreign policy has been dedicated to rescuing Muslims or freeing them from tyranny. Where does one begin, pray tell?
Some of the very House members who denounce the Iraq war, the Afghanistan war and God knows how many other US military actions (often rightly) go mute when it comes to Israel.
We certainly do not want Israel to take its moral cues from Hamas, nor use that organization's abuses as excuses for inaction.
What used to be a "barely-watched" Turkish drama series called Ayrilik has become controversial because of a love story that develops between the lead characters during Israel's operation in Gaza.
Nuclear war is only John Bolton's dream -- something to hope for but not really expect to get.
Break down Netanyahu's speech to the UN and you have more fiction than fact, albeit fiction that has very adeptly been spun by successive Israeli governments into the lexicon of our political language.
With the release of the Goldstone report, Israel has a choice. It can continue to shoot the messenger and bury its head in the sand, or it can initiate a genuine process of truth-telling and taking responsibility.
Marc Garlasco of Human Rights Watch collects Nazi-era Wehrmacht memorabilia and has published a 450-page book on the subject. The Likud-America blogosphere is going Glenn Beck on this story.
Palestinians were furious to discover that now not only Fox News ignores their side -- but now even during commercial breaks are they invisible.
Palestinian armed groups have argued that rocket attacks are appropriate reprisals for Israeli military operations and the ongoing blockade of Gaza, and are a lawful response.
The Huffington Post recently sat down with the former deputy of Israel's National Security Council Brig. Gen (Ret.) Israela Oron to discuss prospects ...
Twenty-six soldiers have now come forward to talk about their combat experiences in the Gaza War, and their testimonies are radically different from the official version given by Israel Defense Force spokesmen.
Like in Gaza, the events that have unfolded in Iran remind us of the immense obstacles that stand in the way of democracy, tolerance, and respect for human rights.
An American friend emailed me to ask "What's Israel's/your take on Obama's remarks in Cairo?" I had to smile, because if there is one thing that has...
Baghdad, Monday, February 29, 2010, almost ten months in the future, and Israel has attacked Iran's nuclear facilities. What might the consequences be...
