By Stuart Littlewood – London Sderot, the Israeli township on which Hamas rockets have been ‘raining down’, is the main plank of the Israelis’ attempt to justify the bloodshed they have inflicted on the people […]

By John Chuckman It is so elemental a question, yet one rarely mentioned in the mainline press. Hamas has been demonized so thoroughly and with so little genuine reason that its situation provides prima facie […]

By Franklin Lamb – Beirut "Israel is leveling Gaza to strike at Hamas, just as they pulverized south Lebanon to strike at Hezbollah. Yet in both cases civilian populations were attacked, countless innocents killed or […]

By Stephen Lendman – Chicago The Middle East Quartet includes the US, EU, Russia and the UN. It was formed in 2002 to seek "comprehensive security reform," mediate the Israeli-Palestinian "peace process," address Occupied Palestine’s […]

By Terry Lacey – Jakarta An over-politicized, simplistic view of the Global War on Terror, in the context of the rise of political Islam and Muslim fundamentalism was the Achilles Heel of United States foreign […]

By Belén Fern

By Ivan Eland 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 […]

By Antoun Issa The death toll in the Gaza massacre has surpassed 500. Israel has rejected an EU cease-fire and is showing no sign of halting its operations, despite growing global opposition. But for the […]

By Mohamed Haiba Human beings have alas short memories. Buchenwald, Auschwitz, Dachau aren’t ancient history and yet they seemed already completely forgotten. When the most iconic victims suddenly gain power and become surprisingly the oppressors, […]

By Joseph Levine Israel’s current assault on Gaza has sparked controversy in the mainstream press. But for all their differences, critics and supporters share a fundamental assumption: that Israel, as a Western industrial democracy, accepts the […]

By Philip Rizk – Cairo At 11:30am on December 27th the Israeli air force bombed Palestinian government headquarters and civilian buildings all across the Gaza Strip. Six consecutive days of attacks resulted in over 400 […]

By Stuart Littlewood – London There’s an ugly plan afoot in the EU to reward Israel for its abominable and criminal conduct by enhancing the already handsome benefits enjoyed by the neighbourhood bully under the […]

By Iqbal Jassat – South Africa Has the internal rumpus within the ruling ANC had an impact on South Africa’s foreign policy? Or is it that an Israel gone mad has led SA to re-assess […]

By Eyad El-Sarraj – Gaza This carnage goes on, as does another humanitarian crisis brought about by the Israeli siege of Gaza: a lack of medicines, bread, flour, gas, electricity, fuel and almost everything else. […]

By Jeremy R. Hammond Lie #1: Israel is only targeting legitimate military sites and is seeking to protect innocent lives. Israel never targets civilians. The Gaza Strip is one of the most densely populated pieces […]

By Gilad Atzmon – London Communicating with Israelis may leave one bewildered. Even now when the Israeli Air Force is practicing murder in broad daylight of hundreds of civilians, elderly persons, women and children, the […]

By Neil Sutherland – Cairo With a monopoly of the air, and unlimited access to the latest US military hardware, Israel will always dominate violent means of ‘resolving’ the Mid-East conflict. So why do Palestinians continue […]