MEMORANDUM FOR: Congressman David Obey FROM: A Former Admirer SUBJECT: Ducking the Challenge "We can sit, frozen in our own indifference, as President Roosevelt once said…" That's what you said yesterday in connection with saving teachers' jobs....
Israeli Human Rights Activist: I Was Tortured
A leading human rights activist from Israel's Palestinian Arab minority was charged yesterday with the most serious security offences on Israel's statute book, including espionage. Prosecutors indicted Ameer Makhoul, the head of Ittijah, an umbrella organization for...
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Thursday: 4 Iraqis Killed, 28 Wounded
Obama’s New Security Strategy Looks Much Like the Old One
President Barack Obama's speech to the West Point graduating class last Saturday was meant to convey a "new" American national security strategy, less evident in his words than in the manner in which the White House pitched the speech to the press, the press following...
Israel’s Bomb Out of the Shadows
Israel faces unprecedented pressure to abandon its official policy of “ambiguity” on its possession of nuclear weapons as the international community meets at the United Nations in New York this week to consider banning such arsenals from the Middle East. Israel's...
The Strategic Ally Myth
It is difficult to understand why anyone would take Mort Zuckerman seriously. He is a New York based but Canadian born Israel firster who made a fortune in real estate before buying The New York Daily News and the US News and World Report. He now fancies himself as a...
Rights Groups Condemn Ruling on Bagram Detainees
Human rights advocates are expressing shock at a federal court ruling that detainees held by the United States in Afghanistan do not have the right to challenge their detention in a U.S. federal court – and dismay that their path to a successful appeal to the U.S....
Wednesday: 7 Iraqis Killed
Hamas Demolishes Palestinian Homes
RAMALLAH - On Sunday approximately 150 Palestinians from 20 families were driven out of their homes in Rafah, in the southern Gaza strip, by heavily armed police and soldiers who menaced them with clubs. The difference this time was that it was not the Israeli Defense...