Notwithstanding a handful of incidents on both sides, the dueling ceasefires declared by Israel and Hamas seem to be holding up. The Israeli military has even begun to withdraw some of its forces from the devastated Gaza Strip. The Hamas government’s ceasefire is predicated on Israeli forces leaving the strip in the next week, but [...]
With the Israeli war in the Gaza Strip seemingly over (or at the very least on hold) its political parties are back in campaign mode, gearing up for February 10th’s election and hoping to cash in on their role (or public position on) the war. The current polls show that since the war, a virtual [...]
With no fighting in the last 16 hours, there is some hope that the 1.5 million people in the Gaza Strip can eventually return to some kind of normalcy. But for now their time is spent digging through the rubble of their former homes, searching for loved ones long unreachable because of persistent Israeli shelling. [...]
Hot on the heels of last night’s declaration of a unilateral ceasefire by the Israeli government, Hamas has declared a unilateral ceasefire of their very own. Neither side is willing to talk to the other about it, but so far calm has prevailed in the roughly 16 hours since the Israeli attacks stopped. But moving [...]
Though both sides continued fighting right up until the official start of the Gaza ceasefire, which took effect at 7:00 PM Eastern, calm has prevailed in the first few hours, neither side his reportedly attacked the other, and there is hope, however fleeting, that the fighting in the Gaza Strip may finally be over. The [...]
Dr. Ezzeldeen Abu al-Aish, an Israeli-trained Palestinian doctor who is also known as a peace activist and promoter of joint Israeli-Palestinian projects, sobbed during a press conference given by phone at the Sheba medical center as he spoke of losing three of his daughters and a niece, who were killed in an Israeli tank attack [...]
After today’s lengthy cabinet meeting, the Israeli government has decided on a unilateral ceasefire which will begin at 2 A.M. Sunday morning (7 PM this evening EST). At that time, Israeli forces will stop their nearly month-long attack that has killed over 1,100 Gazans and injured over 5,000 others. Nine ministers voted in favor of [...]
The Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) between the United States and Iraq requires all American forces to withdraw from Iraq’s cities and villages by the end of June. According to US Major General Jeffery Hammond, they may just keep their promise, if things go well. “If conditions do not change, I anticipate there would be [...]
Ethiopia’s two year military occupation of Somalia, intended to prop up the Transitional Federal Government (TFG), the self-appointed government of Somalia, ended in failure. The troops left, much of the TFG’s security forces deserted, and the TFG was left on the brink of collapse. But that’s just stinkin’ thinkin’, in the opinion of the African [...]
Investigating the persistent, evidence-free assumptions that the Iranian government is involved in some untoward effort to produce something nuclear weapons related, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) revealed today that Iran has purchased tungsten copper, and has been prevented from receiving a shipment of aluminum sheets. The journal reports that tungsten copper could be used in [...]
