The United States and South Korea will impose new sanctions on North Korea in an effort to crackdown on the North's participation in arms proliferation and increase pressure on Pyongyang after the sinking of a South Korean warship. The new sanctions - which were...
Thursday: 13 Iraqis, 3 Foreign Contractors Killed; 18 Iraqis, 15 Contractors Wounded
The National Security Product
UN Chief Dilly-Dallying on Panel to Probe Israeli Killings?
When the Security Council condemned the killings by Israeli military forces of nine Turkish civilians on a flotilla of ships carrying humanitarian aid to Gaza last May, it also released a presidential statement "taking note" of Secretary-General Ban...
Wednesday: 40 Iraqis, 1 US Soldier Killed; 64 Iraqis Wounded
Palestinian Chef Finds Occupation Hard to Digest
RAMALLAH - Nasser Abdulhadi is a mild-mannered man who runs a restaurant. He was always known as the jovial sort. One day, his friends say, he stopped being jovial. He chose instead to fight for a world title for one of his country's national dishes, and through that...
One-State Debate Explodes Myth About Zionist Left
A fascinating debate is entering Israel's political mainstream on a once-taboo subject: the establishment of a single state as a resolution of the conflict, one in which Jews and Palestinians might potentially live as equal citizens. Surprisingly, those advocating...
Ending the Gaza Blockade Might Help Israel as Much as Gaza
In the wake of Israel's botched attack on a Turkish ship bringing relief to Gazans from Israel's (and Egypt's) economic blockade of Gaza, the Israelis have responded to intensely negative world opinion by relaxing the blockade. That move may help Israel as much as...
The Complexity Conundrum
Many years ago I read a science fiction story in which earthmen are conducting a war against a primitive people in a far distant star system: the natives, while less developed than their Terran overlords, were putting up quite a fight, and the colonizers, in an effort...


