Israeli Jets Strike Gaza As Leaders Convene Peace Talks
JERUSALEM — A mortar attack by Palestinian militants and airstrikes by Israel formed the grim backdrop as Mideast leaders ended their latest rou...
JERUSALEM — A mortar attack by Palestinian militants and airstrikes by Israel formed the grim backdrop as Mideast leaders ended their latest rou...
AP | Posted 05.25.2011
RAFAH, Gaza — Palestinian hospital officials say 15 people were wounded in overnight Israeli airstrikes in the Gaza Strip. The airstrikes came ...
Reuters | Posted 05.25.2011
Israeli warplanes carried out at least five missile attacks on the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip on Friday, Palestinian witnesses said....
AP | JOSEF FEDERMAN | Posted 05.25.2011
JERUSALEM — Israeli aircraft attacked two suspected weapons-making factories and a smuggling tunnel in the Gaza Strip early Sunday in what the m...
Jamal Dajani | Posted 05.25.2011
Unlike what happened to Iraq in 2003, an invasion of Iran is not on the horizon; however, the prospect of targeting its nuclear facilities is more real than ever.
Huffington Post | Stuart Whatley | Posted 05.25.2011
Following Vice President Joe Biden's statements in an interview on ABC's "The Week"--which many believe to amount to a tacit condoning of a hypothetic...
AP | Posted 05.25.2011
Israel's air force held a large-scale exercise simulating war on several fronts with enemies that include Iran, Israeli defense officials said Friday....
ABC News | Luis Martinez | Posted 05.25.2011
Israel has conducted three military strikes against targets in Sudan since January in an effort to prevent what were believed to be Iranian weapons sh...
James Zogby | Posted 05.25.2011
In the war's aftermath it is important that attention be paid not only to Gaza's physical wounds and its immediate humanitarian needs, but to the psychic wounds of the survivors.
Richard Bennet and Nicholas Quin | Posted 05.25.2011
In handling the case of the Gaza airstrikes, any war crimes prosecutor would be dealing with a mere snapshot of the greater Arab-Israeli conflict.
Sandy Tolan | Posted 05.25.2011
Given the overwhelming odds facing a two-state solution, a strong American negotiating presence will be necessary, of a sort not seen since... well, ever.
Kathy Kelly | Posted 05.25.2011
"Patients died on the floor of the operating room because we had only six operating rooms," said Dr. Saeed Abuhassan. "And really we don't know enough about the kinds of weapons that have been used against Gaza."
Diane Francis | Posted 05.25.2011
Here is the obvious strategy to Gaza crisis that is being whispered about and probably has the best chance of succeeding and stopping the craziness and bloodshed.
Daoud Kuttab | Posted 05.25.2011
As we peer into the abyss, we believe that the establishment of a War Crime Tribunal needs to be supported both by Israel's friends as well as by supporters of Palestine.
Alan Dershowitz | Posted 05.25.2011
If Israel were ever to be charged with "war crimes," that would mark the end of international human rights law as a neutral arbitrator of conduct.
Bernard-Henri Lévy | Posted 05.25.2011
We can't ignore this fact: Gaza is becoming not the embryo of the so-desired Palestinian State, but the advance base of a total war against the Jewish State.
Diane Perlman | Posted 05.25.2011
President Obama, please lead us in healing wounds, compensating losses, and using principles of restorative justice rather than punitive approaches. Time doesn't heal wounds, people do.
Drew Westen | Posted 05.25.2011
"The U.S.-Al Qaeda conflict appears to be showing some signs of slowing down, at least temporarily, as Barack Obama and Osama bin Laden agreed on terms for a cease-fire." Sound familiar? Perhaps from the pages of The Onion?
Bob Ostertag | Posted 05.25.2011
If you are looking for a better source of news on this catastrophe, may I recommend Paul Woodward's War in Context.
David Bromwich | Posted 05.25.2011
From the civilian deaths in Gaza will spring more hatred and terrorism. Yet no people are so prone as Americans and Israelis to think admiringly of our own good intentions.
Bradley Burston | Posted 11.17.2011
In this day, when the trepidation and rage and mourning that is called war, seizes our hearts and patches them in scars, we call to you, the Lord whose name is Peace.
Daniel Levy | Posted 05.25.2011
It might be pushing the envelope to call Obama the peacemaker here, but it's hard to deny that his impending entrance to the world stage has an effect.
Greg Mitchell | Posted 05.25.2011
Today, at least two UN officials have flatly declared that three or more white phosphorous shells were part of the attack today that set a UN building and compound ablaze in Gaza City.
Lazar Berman | Posted 05.25.2011
To me, Gaza is personal. As an Israeli infantry officer, I served in Gaza before, during, and after the 2005 Disengagement.
David Bromwich | Posted 05.25.2011
More and more in the past ten years the U.S. and Israel have shared a fantasy which says that the Arabs understand only force.
AP | ROBERT BURNS | Posted 05.25.2011