As a popular party with Israel’s large Arab minority, the Balad Party has been seen as a prime mover behind the nation’s domestic antiwar movement. Though officials have repeatedly warned them that “there is a limit to democracy” in Israel, this opposition party never seems to have fully learned its lesson. “The goals of Hamas [...]
When officials in the Israeli government said its ongoing war in the Gaza Strip was no longer about military goals but was about “pressuring Egypt” for better terms in its ongoing attempt to broker a ceasefire, it is unlikely the pressure was meant to be this direct. With ongoing eyewitness reports of Israeli warplanes flying [...]
The United Nations Security Council’s bid to halt the ongoing war in the Gaza Strip with a non-binding resolution calling for a durable ceasefire never had much momentum behind it, but as French and British diplomats scrambled to get the deal together amid repeated American threats to veto it, the fact that America was heavily [...]
Among the most significant stories in the past week of Israel’s attacks on the Gaza Strip was the attack on a United Nations girls’ school in the refugee camp of Jabalya. Though it was clearly marked by the United Nations and the coordinates were given to the IDF when the war first began, Israeli forces [...]
The Israeli war on the Gaza Strip moved into its third week today, with still no end in sight. Both sides proclaimed the great success of their respective war efforts, though Hamas once again does not appear to have killed anyone, while the civilian toll in Gaza continues to soar amid Israeli attacks. Since Israel [...]
As the Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip moved into their third week, the Israeli military once again dropped leaflets on the residents of Gaza warning them “The IDF will escalate the operation in the Gaza Strip. The IDF is not working against the people of Gaza but against Hamas and the terrorists only. Stay [...]
Following in the footsteps of the United States’ efforts to discourage reporting in its assorted wars outside of an embedded scenario, the Israeli government has taken the strategy to unprecedented levels in the modern era. While the United States had the disadvantage of fighting its recent wars in massive countries with porous borders, Israel has [...]
It has now been two weeks since the Israeli military began its attacks on the Gaza Strip, and one week since they began their ground invasion. In that time, over 800 people have been killed in Gaza, and around 3,300 others have been wounded. Both the United Nations Security Council’s resolution supporting a ceasefire and [...]
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice defended the large civilian death toll in the first two weeks of Israel’s ongoing war on the Gaza Strip today, saying “it’s hard” for Israeli troops to avoid killing civilians because the tiny strip is so densely populated. Rice likewise defending the war itself, saying the UN resolution calling for [...]
Responding to last night’s report from The Guardian, Barack Obama’s chief national security spokeswoman Brooke Anderson has denied that the Obama Administration would ever participate in secret low level talks with the Hamas government. “The President-elect has repeatedly stated that he believes that Hamas is a terrorist organization dedicated to Israel’s destruction, and that we [...]
