News/Politics

Israel forces Gaza Children to Wade through Sewage as Creepy, Evil Blockade Continues

 
 by Juan Cole

 Zionist, Arab despots ‘strategic partners’
 

 
By Finian Cunningham
The violation of children’s rights by the Israeli and Bahraini regimes is more than mere coincidence. It is indicative of a much broader strategic alignment that has emerged between the Zionist regime and the Persian Gulf Arab monarchies.

           The Arafat Assassination

 
by Uri Avnery
FROM THE first moment, I did not have the slightest doubt that Yasser Arafat was assassinated.
 It was a matter of simple logic.

The Israel Lobby Is Killing Iran Negotiations

by MJ ROSENBERG

ISRAELI HAWKS RESISTING DEALS
 
Paul Balles
 
To the Israelis, any deal made between the world powers and Iran would be a bad deal.
It’s obvious from Israeli reactions to the talks in Geneva that the only action acceptable to Israel would be to bomb Iran.
Minister of Military Affairs Moshe Ya’alon describes any agreement with Iran as “a historic mistake”.

Why Ain al Hilweh?

by FRANKLIN LAMB

So have peace talks collapsed? Next stop: the International Criminal Court?

 by Stuart Littlewood
In an earlier article I said that if the Palestinian Authority suddenly beamed information at me I’d view it with grave suspicion. So what was I supposed to make of the press release below, received yesterday evening and purporting to be from the PLO Negotiations Affairs Department and relayed by the embassy in London?

Just how real is Hamas’s transformation?

 
The Fatah/PA position as collaborators with the Israeli occupation probably means that their paymasters demand silence.
 
by Stuart Littlewood      Intifada Palestine
 
And is new spokesperson Isra on a ‘mission impossible’?

A VAST WASTELAND OF EFFORT SPENT: AMERICA’S RAMPAGE THROUGH THE MIDDLE EAST
 
 
John Chuckman
 

A Culture of Walls – An Analysis by Lawrence Davidson

 
by Dr. Lawrence Davidson
 
Part I – Israel’s Walls