Added on 03/07/2013
Common Ground News Service
American Task Force on Palestine , Arab–Israeli conflict , Asia , Brandeis University , Correspondent , Educational Echos , Eretz acheret , Fertile Crescent , Forward , Gaza , Human rights in Israel , Israel , Israel and the apartheid analogy , Israeli–Palestinian conflict , Mohammad Assaf , Palestinian people , Politics , TEMPER OF THE TIMES INVESTOR SERVICES INC. , The Forward The Times , Western Asia
NATAN ODENHEIMER, CGNEWS: In an open letter a former IDF soldier praises Mohammed Assaf and spells out how he believes he can help unite the two communities
Added on 01/07/2013
Ramzy Baroud
Ankara , Arab Spring , Asia , Bashar al-Assad , David Cameron , Europe , European Union , Foreign relations of Turkey , France , Germany , Israel , Istanbul , Member states of the United Nations , Middle East , North Atlantic Treaty Organization , Politics , Politics of Turkey , Recep Tayyip Erdogan , Syria , Syria–Turkey relations , Tayyip Erdogan , Turkey , United States , War/Conflict , Western Asia
RAMZY BAROUD: You can be sure that whatever turmoil is happening in the Middle East the hands of the West will be present
Added on 29/06/2013
M.-Lynx-Qualey
Entertainment/Culture , Israel , Jerusalem , Palestine , THE HERALD TRUBUNE - HAARETZ , Yitzhak Aharonovitch
M. LYNX-QUALEY: Children’s puppets represent a new target for the Israeli authorities.
Added on 16/06/2013
Tabsir
Asia , Assad family , Bashar al-Asad , Bashar al-Assad , Fertile Crescent , Iran , Israel , Libya , Middle East , Muammar Gaddafi , Obama , Politics , President , Syria , United Arab Republic , United States
DANIEL M. VARISCO: For George W. Bush the phrase was ‘Mission Accomplished’. For his successor there could be another phrase that defines his foreign affair policy
Added on 11/06/2013
Jonathan Cook
Arab , Arab–Israeli War , Catholic Church , David Ben Gurion , Forced migration , Human migration , Iqrit , Israel , Israeli army , Israeli–Palestinian conflict , Lebanon , Mohammed Zeidan , Operation Hiram , Palestine , Palestinian exodus , Palestinian refugees , Palestinians , Social Issues , Walaa Sbeit , War/Conflict
JONATHAN COOK: A dozen young men have returned to the village from which their grandparents were expelled in 1948 and set up camp
Added on 09/06/2013
Mondoweiss
Ashkenazi Jews , Benjamin Netanyahu , Danny Danon , Israel , Israeli government , Israeli Jews , Likud , Moshe Feiglin , Netanyahu , Politics , Politics of Israel , TEMPER OF THE TIMES INVESTOR SERVICES INC. , Two-state solution , Tzipi Hotovely , Tzipi Livni
MONDOWEISS: ‘We do whatever we want, whenever we want’. Danny Danon injects a bit of plain speaking into the debate about the future, or not, of Palestine.
Added on 08/06/2013
Richard Silverstein
Call-recording software , Comverse Technology , Cyberwarfare , Deep packet inspection , Google Inc. , IDF , Israel , Mass surveillance , MICROSOFT CORPORATION , Narus , NARUS INC. , National security , National Security Agency , Privacy of telecommunications , Security , Steve Bannerman , Surveillance , Technology/Internet , United States , Verint and Narus , Verint Systems
RICHARD SILVERSTEIN: Israeli companies have consistently led the way in internet monitoring and surveillance technology.
Added on 07/06/2013
Jonathan Cook
Asia , Avi Luzon , BDS , Boycott Divestment and Sanctions , Boycotts of Israel , Cederovtala tutun ATSC , Football , Gaza Strip , Human rights in Israel , Human rights in the Palestinian territories , Israel , Israel and the apartheid analogy , Israeli Football Association , Israeli–Palestinian conflict , Mahmoud Sarsak , Middle East , Omar Barghouti , Politics , Sports , UEFA , War/Conflict , Western Asia , Zionism
JONATHAN COOK: Israelis are basking in the warm glow of playing host to a major international sporting event. Is it though the beginning of a South African style campaign focused on sport?
Added on 31/05/2013
Ramzy Baroud
Asia , Egypt , Fatah–Hamas conflict , Gaza , Gaza Strip , Hamas , Hosni Mubarak , Israel , Israel Abbas , Israeli–Palestinian conflict , Palestinian National Authority , Palestinian nationalism , Palestinian Territories , Philadelphi Route , Politics , Rafah , War/Conflict , Western Asia
RAMZY BAROUD: Gazans rejoiced when their neighbours in Egypt experienced freedom. The consequences for Gaza of two years’ revolution in Egypt though are dire
Added on 31/05/2013
Mondoweiss
Arab citizens of Israel , Asia , Barack Obama , Christian Palestinian , Israel , Israeli–Palestinian conflict , Jewish history , Jewish state , Nationalism , Palestine , Palestinian Territories , Politics , South Africa , State of Palestine , United States , Views on the Arab–Israeli conflict , War/Conflict , Zionism
SAM BAHOUR, MONDOWEISS: There are three essential reasons why the fate of Palestine is a matter for global concern.
Added on 28/05/2013
Jonathan Cook
Asher Schechter , Asia , Israel , Israel and the apartheid analogy , Israeli Jews , Israeli society , Israelis , Israeli–Palestinian conflict , Jerusalem , Nationalism , Palestinian terrorism , Politics , Religion/Belief , Second Intifada , War/Conflict , Western Asia , Zionism
JONATHAN COOK: As the physical threat against their security has waned so Israelis have been free to examine other areas of their society.
Added on 24/05/2013
Ramzy Baroud
Asia , Iraq , Israel , Levant , Middle East , Politics , Russia , United States , War/Conflict , Washington
RAMZY BAROUD: America’s current role as impotent looker-on is unprecedented in recent Middle Eastern history. This situation won’t continue indefinitely
Added on 14/05/2013
Jonathan Cook
Arab citizens of Israel , Arab League , Arab League Summit , Arab Peace Initiative , Arab–Israeli conflict , Benjamin Netanyahu , Israel , Israeli–Palestinian conflict , Middle East , Palestinian Territories , Peace process in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict , Prime Minister , Second Intifada , United States , Washington
JONATHAN COOK: Here we go again with another re-heated so-called peace initiative. But the foundations on which it’s built are familiar and fragile
Added on 13/05/2013
Mondoweiss
Alan Dershowitz , Anti-Zionism , Antisemitism , Arab–Israeli conflict , BDS , Ethan Bronner , Israel , Israel Shahak , Israeli–Palestinian conflict , Jewish state , Meir Kahane , Norman Finkelstein , Peter Beinart , Politics , Religion/Belief , Stephen Hawking , West Bank , Zionism
MONDOWEISS: The heat surrounding Stephen Hawkin’s withdrawal from a conference in Israel added heat to a debate between two prominent commentators last week
Added on 11/05/2013
Richard Silverstein
Berlin Wall , Bibi Netanyahu , China , Fences , Fortification , Great Wall of China , Hadrian , Israel , Israeli West Bank barrier , Nerva–Antonine dynasty , Northumberland , Politics , Separation barriers , Walls
RICHARD SILVERSTEIN: Benjamin Netanyahu waxed enthusiastic about the inspiration that the Great Wall of China has provided for him.
Added on 08/05/2013
Ramzy Baroud
2001-09-11 , America , Anti-Islam , Antisemitism , Arab–Israeli conflict , Criticism of religion , Islamophobia , Israel , Israel–Pakistan relations , Jewish history , Politics , Religion , Religious persecution , Secularism , United States , War/Conflict
RAMZY BAROUD: The anti-Muslim brigade who take to the media at every possible opportunity received another boost with the Boston bombing.
Added on 04/05/2013
Mondoweiss
A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm , Alawi , Andrew Tabler , Asia , Assad family , Bashar al-Assad , Fertile Crescent , Iraq , Israel , Israeli–Palestinian conflict , Israel–United States relations , Joshua Landis , Melissa Block , Middle East , Neoconservatism , Politics , Syria , Zionism
PHILIP WEISS, CGNEWS: Josh Landis’s marriage to a Syrian Alawite was judged fair game in a discussion on his views on the political situation. Why only him?
Added on 01/05/2013
Ramzy Baroud
Arab–Israeli War , Asia , Benny Morris , British Mandate for Palestine , Deir Yassin , Deir Yassin massacre , Deir Yassins , Forced migration , History of the Middle East , Israel , Israeli–Palestinian conflict , New Historians , Palestinian exodus , Palestinian refugees , Palestinian Territories , Politics , War/Conflict , Zionism
RAMZY BAROUD: Palestine’s history has traditionally been told through the prism of an accepted Israeli or Western narrative. It’s time for Palestinians to tell their own story.
Added on 15/04/2013
Mondoweiss
A. B. Yehoshua , Amos Oz , Asia , Chava Lerman , Human rights in Israel , Human rights in the Palestinian territories , Ilana Hammerman , Israel , Israeli Jews , Israeli–Palestinian conflict , Palestinian people , Palestinian prisoners in Israel , Samer Issawi , War/Conflict , Western Asia
IRA GLUNTS, MONDOWEISS: The Palestinian hunger striker Samer Issawi sent a letter to prominent Israelis inviting them to see him in prison. There have been radically different responses.