Defense Minister Ehud Barak is reportedly in favor of a week-long "humanitarian ceasefire" in the Gaza Strip to curb the growing international criticism about the war's toll on civilians. Even Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, who spoke with pride at how the military had...
Perhaps already practicing for what he hopes will be a return to the position of Israeli Prime Minister after next month's elections, hawkish Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu defended the attacks on the Gaza Strip as the act of "a responsible government," cheered the...
Moving through her relatively uneventful confirmation hearing in the Senate, incoming Secretary of State Hillary Clinton declared her intentions to embark on a foreign policy based on what she called "smart power." "Our foreign policy has gotten way out of balance,...
"We are treating everything as hostile right now. We were told not to take chances - to shoot rather than ask questions." That is the policy of the invading Israeli soldiers as described by one of their lieutenants. And indeed, they're doing plenty of shooting. As for...
When the Israeli Parliament (Knesset) banned the opposition Balad and United Arab List-Ta'al parties from next month's elections, it unsurprisingly spawned no small amount of outrage among Israel's Arab population. After all, Arabs make up roughly 20% of the...
Yesterday's claims by Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert that he single-handedly prevented the United States from voting for the United Nations Security Council ceasefire in the Gaza Strip with a single phone call have certainly gained a lot of attention, but not the...
"It seems at this moment the invasion is beginning at a number of points in the Gaza Strip," Ramallah-based reporter Hadir Shaheen declared on Saturday, January 3. And he was right. Less than two hours later the beginning of Israel's ground invasion of the Gaza Strip...
Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni rejected the notion that the United Nations could urge her government to end its ongoing war on the Gaza Strip, saying only Israel gets to decide when it will stop attacking the strip. With the death toll quietly passing 900 today,...
With still no end in sight to the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip, growing international concerns about the soaring civilian toll are putting an uncomfortable spotlight on the military's behavior in a densely populated region. But while their own legal experts insist...
In an interview today, Indian Home Minister Palaniappan Chidambaram accused Pakistan of "doing nothing" to assist India since November's Mumbai attacks and said if this doesn't change his government plans to sever all business, transport and tourist links with...
