Bill Moyers, Bill Moyers Journal. November 20, 2009. Recognition of human rights expert Richard Goldston's investigation is essential to the peace process in Israel and Palestine -- and the Congress is trying to demonize it.
Stephen Zunes, Foreign Policy in Focus. October 13, 2009. Recently, the White House called an extensive, 575-page report documenting Israeli and Palestinian crimes "deeply flawed." Has American denial reached a critical mass?
Donald Macintyre, Independent UK. October 5, 2009. The UN's refugee agency plans to include the Holocaust in a new human rights curriculum despite strident opposition to the idea from Hamas.
Ian Williams, Foreign Policy in Focus. September 28, 2009. Does Obama want to build on the good work he started in Turkey and Egypt and send a signal to Israel? Or is he prepared to let unprincipled lobbyists hijack his foreign policy?
Roane Carey, The Nation. September 26, 2009. The Goldstone report has been denounced in Israeli and ignored by the U.S. press, unless you count the NY Daily News, which called it a "blood libel against Israel."
Mel Frykberg, IPS News. September 17, 2009. Back to school in Gaza: "Sometimes when we hear Israeli planes flying overhead we are scared that they are going to bomb us again and that makes it hard to study."
Agence France Presse July 23, 2009. Fifty-nine journalists have been killed around the world so far this year, in an alarming rise from 2008 that has become a "bloodbath" of the media, a watchdog said Thursday.
Nancy Kricorian, AlterNet. July 22, 2009. Ahava is an Israeli profiteer exploiting the natural resources of occupied Palestine to sell its exotic beauty products.
Mel Frykberg, IPS News. July 21, 2009. Israel's actions are strangling the Palestinian economy and making Palestinians more reliant on foreign aid, the EU said.
Helena Cobban, Boston Review. July 20, 2009. Big political movements that once mobilized support for a two state solution are now falling into decline.
Jordan Flaherty, Left Turn. July 16, 2009. "Most of the world believes we are terrorists," says Ayman Meghames. "The media is closed to us, so we get our message out through Hip-Hop."
Agence France Presse July 15, 2009. Israeli soldiers in the Gaza war were told to shoot first and worry about the consequences later and used Palestinian civilians as human shields, a report said Wednesday.
Ira Chernus, Tomdispatch.com. June 26, 2009. The old narrative of Israel as the innocent victim is losing its grip on Americans. This is necessary if we are to be even-handed brokers.
Ira Chernus, AlterNet. June 11, 2009. Israel would rather go down fighting than survive with a damaged sense of national pride. What would happen if concessions weren't so symbolic?
Stephen Zunes, AlterNet. June 9, 2009. Obama could use his enormous political leverage to cease Israel's illegal expansion into the West Bank. But will he?
Stephen Zunes, AlterNet. June 6, 2009. Obama has inherited a difficult challenge in pushing Israel to end the expansion of its illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank.
Rose Aguilar, AlterNet. May 20, 2009. Author Susan Galleymore shares her dramatic encounters with mothers living in Mid-East war zones and American military moms.
George Bisharat, AlterNet. April 6, 2009. Chilling testimony by Israeli soldiers substantiates charges that Israel’s Gaza Strip assault entailed grave violations of international law.
Amy Goodman, Juan Gonzalez, Democracy Now!. March 24, 2009. While Defense Minister Ehud Barak claims that Israel has "the most moral army in the world," IDF soldiers suggest otherwise.
Tana Ganeva, AlterNet AlterNet: PEEK. March 23, 2009. In one instance, the report finds, soldiers used an 11-year-old boy as a human shield. Any guess on whether the U.S. media will cover the report?
Donald Macintyre, The Independent. March 21, 2009. Army veterans reveal how they gunned down innocent Palestinian families and destroyed homes and farms.
