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...
With the lion's share of the 1,300 Palestinians killed in the Israeli attack on the Gaza Strip innocent civilians, there remains considerable international disquiet over the nation's conduct during the war, particularly in light of its use of white phosphorus weapons...
Today, the Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel filed an appeal to the Israeli Court of Justice on behalf of the Balad and United Arab List-Ta'al Parties, hoping to overturn last week's decision by the Israeli parliament's Central Elections Committee to ban...
The situation on the ground in the Gaza Strip is fast-changing, and so too is the Israeli government's stated intentions with respect to its continued military presence. While just yesterday top officials said it was too soon to discuss a timetable, forces are now...
The repeated accusations during the course of Israel's three week war on the Gaza Strip regarding their use of white phosphorus against civilians gained yet more momentum today, when Amnesty International's fact-finding team determined that there was indisputable...
The 1.5 million residents of the Gaza Strip haven't even finished digging all the bodies of friends and family out of the rubble yet, but already thought is being given to how the towns, cities and refugee camps leveled in the 22-day Israeli onslaught will be...
Not long after Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert declared victory in their 22-day long attack on the Gaza Strip, Gaza Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh declared victory on behalf of the Hamas government. "The enemy has failed to achieve its goals," Haniyeh insisted. He...
