Israel Lebanon War

Former Israeli PM Olmert Shouted Down at University of Chicago (Video)

Ali Abunimah | Posted 10.19.2009 | Chicago


Ali Abunimah

Recording and photography were officially banned at Olmert's request, but we had a camera anyway as protester after protester rose to make a statement before police forced them to leave.

2 Lebanese Rockets Fired Toward Israel

AP | BASSEM MROUE | Posted 11.11.2009 | World


BEIRUT — Two rockets were fired from southern Lebanon into Israel on Friday, prompting Israel to respond with artillery fire, Lebanese security ...

Fears of War Grow in Lebanon

James Denselow | Posted 09.15.2009 | World


James Denselow

There is talk of "war shopping", of people storing up supplies in case growing Israeli rhetoric towards Lebanon becomes a reality.

Lebanon-Israel Border: Lebanese Army Raises Alert Level In Response To Israeli Tanks

Haaretz | Posted 08.28.2009 | World


The official Lebanese news agency reported on Tuesday that the Lebanese army had declared a state of high alert and deployed forces along the border w...

Lebanon, Israel Independent Peace Talks Won't Happen: Hariri

Jerusalem Post | Posted 07.10.2009 | World


Lebanon will not conduct an independent peace track with Israel, and may not even join the Arab peace initiative, should it become the basis for regio...

UN Gets Israeli Cluster Bomb Map For Lebanon: 1 In 4 Undetonated

BBC | Posted 06.13.2009 | World


Israel has handed over details of where it dropped cluster bombs in Lebanon during the war in 2006, UN peacekeeping forces have confirmed....

"Hezbollah Planned Huge Terror Attacks In Tel Aviv": Egyptian Newspaper

Haaretz | Posted 05.17.2009 | World


Hezbollah operatives caught in Egypt planned to carry out massive terror attacks in Tel Aviv, the Egyptian newspaper Almasry Alyoum reported Thursday....

Why Israel Is "Losing" In Gaza: Lessons For America

GlobalPost.com | Thanassis Cambanis | Posted 03.02.2009 | World


AYTA AL SHAAB, Lebanon -- The hue and furor over the humanitarian cost of the Gaza conflict have obscured the matter on which Israel's campaign agai...

Bush's Final Gift: Gaza

Eric Margolis | Posted 02.15.2009 | Politics


Eric Margolis

Just when we thought it was impossible for the calamitous George Bush and Svengali Dick Cheney to do any more damage to the world or to America's inte...

Lebanon Will Not Become Second Front: Robert Fisk

The Independent | Robert Fisk | Posted 02.15.2009 | World


The "Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command" - the quotation marks are necessary since this outfit controls at most 500 cadres ...

Israel Treading a Familiar Path in Gaza

Jared Levy | Posted 02.13.2009 | World


Jared Levy

Hamas doesn't shoot rockets from civilian neighborhoods, mosques and UN buildings to deter an Israeli response. They do it precisely because they know Israel will respond with deadly force.

Waltz with Folman: Q & A with the Award Winning Director of Waltz With Bashir

Christal Smith | Posted 02.12.2009 | Entertainment


Christal Smith

Folman: This was always meant to be animated film -- in my imagination the characters were drawn -- there was no other way to do it.

Bashir's Ari Folman: 'They need to establish a Palestine'

Marshall Fine | Posted 02.05.2009 | Entertainment


Marshall Fine

Ari Folman, looking both exhausted and still a little amazed, sits back in a hotel room chair and spreads his arms in a shrug. "I think I would not b...

Gaza--How Jews Can Help Make Real Peace

Warren Goldstein | Posted 02.04.2009 | Politics


Warren Goldstein

There are far too many reasons to feel distress, sadness, and anger about Israel's massive air bombardment and invasion of Gaza--its shortsightedness;...

Israel Destroys Hamas Homes, Flattens Gaza Mosque (PHOTOS)

AP | IBRAHIM BARZAK and MATTI FRIEDMAN | Posted 02.02.2009 | World


GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip -- Israel bombed a mosque it said was used to store weapons and destroyed the homes of more than a dozen Hamas operatives Friday...

Lessons Learned from the 2006 War Being Implemented in Gaza

Joshua Gleis | Posted 01.30.2009 | World


Joshua Gleis

While many have spoken about the lessons Hamas has learned from Hezbollah over the years, it appears the Israeli political and military establishment has learned one or two of its own.

Israel's Motive: To Show Arab Foes Its Strength

Nytimes.com | ETHAN BRONNER | Posted 01.28.2009 | World


JERUSALEM -- Israel's military operation in Gaza is aimed primarily at forcing Hamas to end its rocket barrages and military buildup. But it has anoth...

Hezbollah's Hassan Nasrallah: Israel Might Attack Lebanon

Haaretz | Posted 01.28.2009 | World


The head of the Lebanese militia Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah, said Sunday that he had asked his fighters to be on alert for any possible Israeli attac...

Two Men Captured From Israel-Lebanon Border, Sound Familiar?

Ahmed Shihab-Eldin | Posted 01.22.2009 | World


Ahmed Shihab-Eldin

Hezbollah has been able to keep its weapons and buy more following Lebanon's civil war. The "Party of God" is also known to maintain close and direct relations with Syria's leadership.

Hummus War Looms Between Israel And Lebanon

AP | ZEINA KARAM | Posted 11.07.2008 | Politics


BEIRUT, Lebanon — The latest conflict simmering between Lebanon and Israel is all about food: Lebanese businessmen accusing Israel of stealing t...