Notwithstanding a handful of incidents, the truce in the Gaza Strip appears to be holding, and while the Israeli government and Hamas still aren't talking to one another, the Cairo talks continue, aiming to work out a longer-term ceasefire between the two sides. Among...
"This is not an appeal by Hamas asking for arms." But don't tell that to the BBC, who declined to broadcast a plea for aid to the Gaza Strip by an organization comprised of the British Red Cross, Oxfam, and several other high profile charities. They said they feared...
Israel's 22-day war in the Gaza Strip may have saved the Labor Party of Defense Minister Ehud Barak from the indignity of falling to single-digit representation in the Knesset in next month's elections, but recent polls suggest it has also assured that the next...
UN human rights expert and retired Princeton law professor Richard Falk said today that there is compelling evidence that Israel violated the laws of war by "conducting a large-scale military operation against an essentially defenseless population." "There needs to be...
The United Nations is pressuring Israel for a more plausible explanation for why so many of their facilities were attacked during the 22-day war on the Gaza Strip. Those attacks caused scores of civilian casualties, just some of the thousands of civilians killed and...
United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has demanded a full explanation from Israel regarding its attacks on UN schools and other facilities during the 22-day war in the Gaza Strip, which he called "outrageous." After the statement by Secretary General Ban, the...
The Israeli High Court of Justice today overturned the Knesset(Israeli Parliament)'s attempt to ban the two Arab political parties with Knesset representation from contesting next month's elections. The decision was unanimous in favor of lifting the ban on the United...
Bodies continued to be pulled from the rubble that used to be the cities of the Gaza Strip today, and the death toll in Israel's 22-day way has now passed 1,400. 5,500 others were also wounded. In addition, two children in Gaza City were killed when they found an...
As soon as Israel started its war on the Gaza Strip, it became all too clear that the nation's Arab minority, long shunned and distrusted, was to be seen as traitors for their opposition to the attacks. They were arrested for protesting, their political parties were...
Just one day into their three day fact-finding mission to Israel, some high profile US military analysts have taken Israel to task for its behavior in its war on the Gaza Strip. Not for all those people they killed, but rather for all those people they left alive. "I...
