Bombs are falling and people are dying in Gaza. It's headline news in America's mass media. As usual, though, we get only today's events, with no historical context to explain what's really going on and why. The crucial piece of history our mass media ignore is that...
Netanyahu Tries to Scuttle Peace Talks Again
Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has once against scuttled a chance for progress in the stalled Israeli-Palestinian peace process. You didn't know? Don't feel bad. It all happened so quickly that hardly anyone noticed it – except in Ramallah, where the...
Zionist Joke: What Have We Ever Done to Them?
There's one big difference I've noticed between the political Left and Right. Even in the worst of times, lefties have a sense of humor. So I wasn't surprised to see the grand old man of the Israeli Left, Uri Avnery, sum up his government's galling attack on the Gaza...
Obama Ignores His Own Security Strategy
On May 27, President Obama released his first National Security Strategy (NSS), the congressionally mandated statement of America's overarching vision of national security and how to achieve it. You didn't know? Don't feel bad. Hardly anyone else was paying attention...
Israel Finds a New Way to Play the Victim
Inching Toward Compromise in the Middle East
Palestinians Without Palestine
Olmert’s Folly?
Israel's recent response to actions by Hamas and Hezbollah has raised alarms in the region to a higher level than in any time since the Yom Kippur War of 1973. Rather than strengthen Israel's security, it might well have weakened it by setting the stage, perhaps...
‘Taking Out’ Iran’s Nuclear Facilities: Not So Fast
Military actions were once taken only after careful war-gaming, which sought to elucidate likely and even not-so-likely responses from the other side. Today, as the bombing of Iran's nuclear facilities looms, it seems the moral certainty that defines the...