Jerrold Kessel, Pierre Klochendler, IPS News. December 26, 2009. One year after its devastating siege of Gaza, Israel's efforts to discredit peace groups have intensified, while settlement activity has expanded.
Robert Parry, Consortium News. December 25, 2009. In his Nobel speech, Obama slipped decades of violent U.S. foreign policy behind the phrase "whatever mistakes we have made," while asserting the morality of U.S. interventions.
Jerrold Kessel, Pierre Klochendler, IPS News. December 1, 2009. Whether or not Marwan Barghouti will be among those released on the Palestinian side could have important implications for the peace process.
Brian White, Gotcha Movies. November 26, 2009. It's a great feat to bring an even view to international politics. The Battle of Durbin II does just that.
Mel Frykberg, IPS News. November 25, 2009. A safe walk to school is something many American children take for granted. Not so for many Palestinian youths who are facing attacks from Israeli settlers.
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, AlterNet. November 5, 2009. This is George W. Bush's foreign policy legacy, which — through this resolution — the Democrats, no less than their Republican counterparts, have now eagerly embraced.
Eli Clifton, IPS News. November 4, 2009. StandWithUs, a pro-Israel group known for challenging the credentials of more moderate Israel lobbyists, has accepted contributions from a slew of hard-right beneficiaries.
Max Blumenthal, AlterNet. October 29, 2009. The controversial Christian right figure baselessly trashed Obama, and Nobel laureate and Holocaust survivor Wiesel calls him "dear pastor." What gives?
Joshua Holland, AlterNet. October 26, 2009. Obama's national security adviser will keynote the inaugural conference of the moderate advocacy group J-Street, an alternative to Washington's hawkish Israel lobby.
Adam Horowitz, Philip Weiss, The Nation. October 23, 2009. The Jewish push for peace is surging through the grassroots, but leaders and policy-makers are still turning a deaf ear.
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?
Yves Engler, CounterPunch. October 13, 2009. "No other country in the world has demonstrated such full understanding of us," says Ultra-Right Wing Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman of Canada.
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."
Jonathan Cook, AlterNet. September 25, 2009. Youth counselors and psychologists are going after young Jewish women who are dating Arab men to "rescue" them.
Richard Silverstein, AlterNet AlterNet: PEEK. September 24, 2009. Giuliani confirms that tomorrow's event, sponsored by the New York Jewish community, represents a hardline neocon agenda.