Former Insider Shatters Credibility of Military Commissions
Hamas-Fatah Violence May Derail Reconciliation
RAMALLAH - Egyptian mediators have set July 7 as deadline for final Palestinian reconciliation talks in Cairo. The Egyptians say time is running out, and if there is no progress in July, they will no longer be prepared to arbitrate. Continued political detention and...
Empty Evidence
At the end of a hectic week at Guantánamo, which saw the Obama administration overcome its previous inability to release prisoners (just two were released from January to May), it was announced that, following the release of four Uighurs to Bermuda, the return...
Civil Liberties and the Winds of ‘Change’
Behind the Wire: An Insider’s Reflections on Gitmo
Israel Cracks Down on Minority Rights
RAMALLAH - Three bills recently making the rounds in the Israeli parliament have caused outrage among Israel's Arab minority. "They reveal an obscene and dangerous targeting of the individual and collective rights of Palestinian citizens," the independent...
Obama Breaking Vows on Secrecy
Israel Threatens to Outlaw Palestinian Memory
JERUSALEM - Israel is set to approve a radical new bill that threatens to legalize discrimination against its sizable Arab minority for the first time. The bill, approved this week by the ministerial committee for legislation, would make it illegal to relate to the...
The Chimera of Total Security
"No one can terrorize a whole nation unless we are all his accomplices." - Edward R. Murrow Let's talk about the next terrorist attack. We cannot know what form it will take, where it will occur, or what the casualty count will be. But one thing we do know:...
