The struggling Egyptian ceasefire effort for the Gaza Strip seems to have finally made some meaningful progress after a week of backdoor wrangling, as Hamas has accepted the deal "in principle," though they said they had reservations about some of the terms and were...
19 days in, the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip passed another major milestone, with over 1,000 Palestinians killed in the attack. The Gaza-based Palestinian Center for Human Rights, which has been tracking the toll, said 673 of those killed were civilians, with 225...
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's Monday comments, in which he claimed to have ordered President Bush to prevent an American vote in favor of the UN Security Council's Gaza ceasefire resolution and publicly shamed Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in the process...
Top Israeli defense officials say that the military has accomplished all that it possibly could in nearly three weeks of attacks on the Gaza Strip, and they support the idea of ending the operations before the inauguration of President-elect Barack Obama next week....
Attempting to capitalize on the international outrage, particularly in the Muslim world, over the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip, Osama bin Laden's newest audio tape calls for all Muslims to launch a jihad against Israel. His speech also targeted the leaders of most of...
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...
