Gaza and the World: Will Things Ever Change?

In times of crisis, most Arabs tune in to al-Jazeera television. Sometimes it's comforting for the truth to be stated the way it is, with all of its gory and unsettling details, without blemishes and without censorship. When Israel carried out massive air strikes...

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Is Israeli Policy Crazy?

The "Israeli model" has long been held up by hawks in the United States as the gold standard for dealing with adversarial nation-states, guerrillas, and terrorists. The storyline goes that Israel is a small country surrounded by aggressive enemies that use...

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Friday: 35 Iraqis Killed, 123 Wounded

Updated at 11:28 p.m. EST, Jan. 2, 2009A pair of attacks, one of them significant, took place just south of Baghdad in what has been called the "Triangle of Death." This Sunni-dominated area was once among the deadliest in Iraq. Overall, at least 35 Iraqis were killed...

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Coming Soon: The Disunited States?

For a decade Russian academic Igor Panarin has been predicting that the US is going to fall apart. He says D-Day will be in 2010. For years he was ignored, but now he's being sought out by the media and invited to Kremlin receptions. Could America's time be over?...

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The Real Goal of the Slaughter in Gaza

Ever since Hamas triumphed in the Palestinian elections nearly three years ago, the story in Israel has been that a full-scale ground invasion of the Gaza Strip was imminent. But even when public pressure mounted for a decisive blow against Hamas, the government...

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Gaza Attacks: Murder with Impunity

It was about midnight last Sunday when my phone rang. "I'm not sure I will survive tonight, the Israelis are bombing us everywhere." It was Mahmoud, a young resident of Rafah, a city in the Gaza Strip on the border with Egypt. We first met when I visited the troubled...

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Thursday: 13 Iraqis Killed, 10 Wounded

Updated at 7:50 p.m. EST, Jan. 1, 2009At least 13 Iraqis were killed and 10 more were wounded on the first day of complete Iraqi control of security. The country formally took control of the Green Zone and likewise the rest of Iraq during a ceremony today; however,...

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