According to the Pakistani government, a military offensive against what they described as “hardcore militants” left at least 60 militants dead, and an unknown number of others wounded in the last 24 hours. The forces, backed by artillery, helicopter gunships and war planes, pounded the border Mohmand Agency, and they claim to have secured “a [...]
As soon as Israel started its war on the Gaza Strip, it became all too clear that the nation’s Arab minority, long shunned and distrusted, was to be seen as traitors for their opposition to the attacks. They were arrested for protesting, their political parties were banned, they were threatened. The war may be over, [...]
Just one day into their three day fact-finding mission to Israel, some high profile US military analysts have taken Israel to task for its behavior in its war on the Gaza Strip. Not for all those people they killed, but rather for all those people they left alive. “I think you were too restrained and [...]
With the lion’s share of the 1,300 Palestinians killed in the Israeli attack on the Gaza Strip innocent civilians, there remains considerable international disquiet over the nation’s conduct during the war, particularly in light of its use of white phosphorus weapons in densely populated civilian neighborhoods. But both the government and the military remain undaunted, [...]
Today, the Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel filed an appeal to the Israeli Court of Justice on behalf of the Balad and United Arab List-Ta’al Parties, hoping to overturn last week’s decision by the Israeli parliament’s Central Elections Committee to ban the two parties from next month’s elections. Though there appeared to [...]
The situation on the ground in the Gaza Strip is fast-changing, and so too is the Israeli government’s stated intentions with respect to its continued military presence. While just yesterday top officials said it was too soon to discuss a timetable, forces are now withdrawing en masse, and officials say they have a very concrete [...]
The repeated accusations during the course of Israel’s three week war on the Gaza Strip regarding their use of white phosphorus against civilians gained yet more momentum today, when Amnesty International’s fact-finding team determined that there was indisputable evidence that the military had been firing white phosphorus into densely populated civilian residential areas around Gaza [...]
The 1.5 million residents of the Gaza Strip haven’t even finished digging all the bodies of friends and family out of the rubble yet, but already thought is being given to how the towns, cities and refugee camps leveled in the 22-day Israeli onslaught will be reconstructed… and whether Israel will allow it. Money doesn’t [...]
Not long after Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert declared victory in their 22-day long attack on the Gaza Strip, Gaza Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh declared victory on behalf of the Hamas government. “The enemy has failed to achieve its goals,” Haniyeh insisted. He also declared the war, which killed over 1,300 Palestinians and 13 Israelis [...]
More than seven years into the US-led invasion, the situation in Afghanistan is no better, and in many ways is dramatically worse. Afghan President Hamid Karzai is increasingly impatient with the floundering nation-building effort, but according to NATO’s Secretary General, Karzai is increasingly the problem. In an opinion piece in the Washington Post, Jaap de [...]
