Ira Chernus, AlterNet. July 7, 2009. If the Israeli government and courts were adhering strictly to the law, the settlers would have been gone long ago.
Digby, Hullabaloo AlterNet: PEEK. July 6, 2009. "Israel can determine for itself ... what's in their interest and what they decide to do relative to Iran and anyone else."
Agence France Presse June 29, 2009. The decision to build the houses in Adam, north of Jerusalem, came despite repeated U.S. calls for Israel to halt all settlement activity in order to relaunch peace talks with the Palestinians.
Marsha B. Cohen, AlterNet. June 27, 2009. Gay Pride marches are being exploited by rabidly homophobic extremists who plan to parade through Arab towns, asserting their "Jewish pride."
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.
Byard Duncan, AlterNet AlterNet: Politics. June 17, 2009. Obama and South Korean president Lee Myung-bak met yesterday to discuss a multilateral approach to confronting North Korea.
Steven D., Booman Tribune AlterNet: PEEK. June 16, 2009. No new territory will be appropriated but he won't freeze settlements? What the hell does that mean?
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."
Mohammed Assadi, Reuters June 15, 2009. Palestinians aired concerns about the terms Netanyahu set for a peace deal, but the Israeli leader won guarded approval in Washington and Brussels.
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?
Robert Fisk, Independent UK. June 8, 2009. Lebanon's new government of "national salvation" will be run by an ex-army general-president with ever-increasing powers.
Noam Chomsky, Z Magazine. June 8, 2009. We should be cautious about the idea that Obama will promote a serious regional peace initiative for the Middle East.
Jared Levy, Ali Gharib, IPS News. June 6, 2009. Many analysts view the elections through the lens of the struggle between U.S. and Iranian regional hegemonic aspirations.
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.
