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...
Protests Across Israel in Wake of Gaza Attack
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...
War on Gaza: A World Reacts
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...
At Least 230 Killed as Israel Destroys Police Stations Across the Gaza Strip
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,...
Fierce Santas Do Battle With Israeli Security Forces in West Bank
Dozens of demonstrators rally at the future site of the construction of Israel's barrier wall near the West Bank village of Bil'in every week. Regularly, those protesters are met with Israeli soldiers who violently disperse their rallies. Yet every week the protesters...
Israeli MP Demands Barak Be Indicted for Allowing Medicine Into Gaza
Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak's decision to finally allow a convoy of humanitarian aid trucks to enter the Gaza Strip doesn't sit well with MP Arye Eldad. The head of the minor Hatikva party today called for Attorney General Menahem Mazuz to indict Barak for...
Peres Urges Obama to Delay Iran Talks
While last month Israeli President Shimon Peres expressed hope that President-elect Barack Obama would be able to unite the world and force Iran to the bargaining table, he has now told Japan's Kyodo News that he hopes Obama delays those talks. Instead, Peres would...
Pakistan Shifts Troops From Afghan Border to Indian Border
Pakistani troops mass along India’s border… is it a prelude to war or a ploy to silence international criticism?
Iraq Prison Revolt Leaves 16 Dead, Three al-Qaeda Escape
A daring prison break at Forsan police station in the city of Ramadi has left 10 police and six prisoners dead, and some 20 prisoners still on the run. Early this morning, prisoners killed a police captain with a makeshift knife to get out of their cell, then killed...
Germany’s Police, Military Bicker Over Whose Fault Afghan Mission Failure Is
Less than a month ago, German General Hans-Cristoph Ammon declared the effort to train Afghanistan's police, Germany's whole raison d'etre in the seemingly endless war, "a miserable failure," and said that at the current rate of progress "it would take 82 years to...


