When Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice declared Hamas responsible for all the killings in Israel's attacks on the Gaza Strip, it was easy to dismiss it as an expression of the Bush Administration's "special relationship" with the Israeli government and knee-jerk...
Already among the most devastating attacks in the history of the 60 year long clash between Israel and the Palestinians, the Israeli air strikes of the past two days show no sign of slowing down. Indeed, Defense Minister Ehud Barak has vowed to "expand and deepen" the...
Updated 12/29 5:55 PM EST There are two reasons a Gazan is outside today amid continuing Israeli air strikes, to bury relatives or to search for food. Food continues to be in short supply and shops are closed in what the UN is describing as a "disastrous" humanitarian...
Israel's military operation in the Gaza Strip continues tonight, and people across the world are taking to the streets to protest against the massive death toll. Even in Israel, though police are quick to crack down on protests against the strikes, the rallies...
With the world's attention focused on the Israeli military's killings in the Gaza Strip (over 300 as this article is written), comparisons are already being drawn between this war and Israel's 2006 military adventure into Lebanon. Hard feelings remain between the two...
As the Israeli military's attacks on Gaza move into their second day, there is no sign that the international calls for calm are getting any consideration. Indeed, with Israel advancing tanks to the border and calling up reservists the hundreds of Gazans killed in the...
Updated 12/28 3:20 PM EST The first day of what Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak assures us will be a "long and difficult" war in the Gaza Strip has come and gone, leaving at least 300 Gazans dead, over 700 wounded, and one Israeli civilian killed and four wounded...
As Prime Minister Ehud Olmert urged all Israeli citizens to unite behind the government's decision to attack the Gaza Strip, hundreds of protesters took to the streets of Israeli cities to protest the killings. Several hundred activists in Tel Aviv rallied on the lawn...
Israel's long-promised attack on the Gaza Strip commenced in earnest today, with over 200 already dead as of the most recent reports. But at the Israeli Foreign Ministry mounts its "emergency international PR effort" to secure international support for what Defense...
Just hours after Israeli President Shimon Peres insisted his nation had no plans to ignite a war in the Gaza Strip and urged Arab nations to appoint "peace envoys" for the crisis, the Israeli military launched an unprecedented attack on the Gaza Strip. The attack,...
