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?
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.
Mel Frykberg, IPS News. June 16, 2009. "The peace process has been moving at the speed of a tortoise," said Yasser Abed Rabo. "Netanyahu has flipped it over on its back."
Medea Benjamin, AlterNet. June 5, 2009. Hamas says it's willing to talk "on the basis of mutual respect and without preconditions"; an effort to show a new face to the Western world.
Ira Chernus, AlterNet. May 13, 2009. Hamas has long endorsed a two-state solution, but when the NY Times reported it, kooky neocon Charles Krauthammer went unhinged.
Jennifer Utz, AlterNet. March 23, 2009. What most Americans don't know about Syria -- a nation vilified by the U.S. that has also absorbed 2 million Iraqi refugees -- might surprise you.
Patrick Cockburn, Independent UK. February 27, 2009. More U.S. troops in Afghanistan will spark a backlash in which religion combines with nationalism to oppose foreign intervention.
Medea Benjamin, AlterNet. February 19, 2009. What I saw was like a form of collective punishment, leaving behind a trail of grieving mothers, angry fathers and traumatized children.
Ali Gharib, IPS News. February 10, 2009. The U.S. and the international community are poised to continue politically-charged policies that will impede progress.
Simcha Leventhal, Huffington Post. February 3, 2009. Israel's government knew that its weapons would kill civilians. Deploying them dragged our military to a new moral low.
Ira Chernus, AlterNet. February 2, 2009. Why would Israeli pols take a hard-line stance against Hamas, even as the group pushes for an extended pause in fighting?
Robert Fisk, Independent UK. January 22, 2009. Obama's message about 'a new way forward based on mutual interest and respect' did not address the Gaza bloodbath.
Patrick Cockburn, Independent UK. January 20, 2009. The scale of the ruin, the economic siege of the enclave, and attempts to exclude Hamas are complicating factors.
Jonathan Cook, AlterNet. January 17, 2009. In addition to the 1,000 deaths, there are some 1.5 million injured in Gaza. How has such an astounding figure passed the world's media by?
Fares Akram, Independent UK. January 13, 2009. Even if the warplanes are gone by the time our baby is born, Israel's siege will keep the flames of this conflict alive for generations to come.
Max Blumenthal, AlterNet. January 13, 2009. Attendants of a rally joined by Sen. Chuck Schumer and Gov. David Paterson in support of Israel's attacks on Gaza went far beyond the pale.
AlterNetJanuary 10, 2009. The anger and frustration at U.S. politicians, the corporate media and the slaughter of hundreds of innocent civilians is palpable.
Faiz Shakir, Think Progress AlterNet: PEEK. January 8, 2009. Barack Obama is reportedly planning to ditch President Bush's strategy of isolating Hamas, and will instead move to open contacts with the group.
Jim Lobe, Ali Gharib, IPS News. January 8, 2009. The corporate media buried a key Israeli military attack on a Hamas target that some claim sparked the current conflagration in Gaza.
