Ira Chernus, AlterNet. April 28, 2008. If the U.S. or Israel were to accept Hamas' willingness to negotiate, they would tacitly acknowledge that Hamas is a player in the game.
Joshua Holland, AlterNet. April 21, 2008. What separates Carter from the neocons is his genuine desire to negotiate a Middle East peace settlement, and that means talking to everyone.
Piya Chatterjee, Sunaina Maira, Religion Dispatches. March 20, 2008. Western feminists talk about honor killings and the misogyny of Islam, but hypocritically ignore the legal violence of military occupation.
Ramzy Baroud, Middle East Online. February 19, 2008. Once the presidential candidates are determined, the occupation of Iraq will probably position itself as the lead point of contention.
Soumaya Ghannoushi, Comment Is Free. January 26, 2008. In this unfolding tragedy, borders have turned into instruments of collective punishment, Israel's way of bringing Palestinians to their knees.
Ben White, Comment Is Free. December 25, 2007. At this time of year, faced with occupation and threats from extremists, Palestinian Christians have little to celebrate.
Neta Golan, AlterNet. December 5, 2007. Under Israel and Bush's "solution", Palestinian refugees who had been expelled from what is now Israel could return, not to their homes, but to small, non-contiguous parts of less than 22% of their original homeland.
Manila Ryce, The Largest Minority AlterNet: Video. November 23, 2007. Chomsky talks with the Real News about the lack of justification for military action against Iran regarding their nuclear program and the accusation that they're fueling the Iraqi insurgency.
Manila Ryce, The Largest Minority AlterNet: PEEK. November 19, 2007. Manila Ryce: Blitzer was a propagandist within a powerful pro-Israeli organization before he came to CNN.
Adam Howard, AlterNet AlterNet: Video. November 13, 2007. Belly says, "If this puts me in the line of fire, then so be it. I felt I had to do this. I represent Arabs who don't want war, who are just like everybody else and that is 99% of us. I want people to see and hear that perspective."
Adam Howard, AlterNet. November 5, 2007. Man From Plains is a moving, redemptive portrait of a president and a presidency that has been unfairly maligned and reduced to a punchline for far too long.
Ari Melber, AlterNet: PEEK. October 8, 2007. Ari Melber: Did reporters and pundits learn nothing from their misplaced faith in erroneous polls last cycle?
Mohammed Khatib, AlterNet. September 26, 2007. A recent decision by the Israeli Supreme Court demonstrated both the power of nonviolent resistance to Israeli occupation, and its limits.
Salim Muwakkil, In These Times. September 11, 2007. In the U.S., scholars who contest the conventional wisdom about Israel all too often lose their reputations -- and their jobs.
Adam Howard, AlterNet: PEEK. September 11, 2007. Adam Howard: A new documentary starring Carter shows him at his most outspoken and passionate on the crisis in the Middle East.
Barry Lando, AlterNet: PEEK. July 22, 2007. Barry Lando: The Israeli position is a self-serving myth created when the Jewish state was born, perpetuated ever since by the country's leaders and accepted by Washington.
Jonathan Cook, CounterPunch. June 29, 2007. Bush and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert sound more smug than usual after Fatah's overthrow in Gaza. It appears that a drastic and deadly new strategy to isolate Palestinians and use other Arab countries as enforcers has been unveiled.
Robert Fisk, The Independent. June 18, 2007. Hamas is the democratically elected government of the Palestinian territories -- now that it has taken control of the Gaza Strip from the Fatah party, will Israel and the West keep supporting the old regime?