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...
"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...
"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...
Parash Hill, a nature reserve in southern Israel, is a great spot for a picnic. With lush green fields and a view all the way to the Mediterranean, it is a serene and picturesque place where residents of Sderot come to quietly enjoy nature. But in a nation obsessed...
Taking a short break from lashing out at the international media for reporting the growing civilian death toll in the Gaza Strip, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert spoke in detail about the events leading up to the US abstention from the United Nations Security...
As Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert touted his military's "impressive gains" in having killed nearly 900 people in the first 15 days of the war in the Gaza Strip, the question everyone really wants to know is how much longer this whole war business is going to take....
Who would've thought that killing a school full of civilians in a refugee camp would be such a difficult thing for the Israeli government to get its story straight on? Five days since causing over 100 civilian casualties with a mortar attack on a UN girls' school,...
When officials in the Israeli government said its ongoing war in the Gaza Strip was no longer about military goals but was about "pressuring Egypt" for better terms in its ongoing attempt to broker a ceasefire, it is unlikely the pressure was meant to be this direct....
