When a nation goes to war, there are all sorts of motivations, policy deliberations, and cultural attitudes that contribute to such a decision. Popular culture offers a window into a nation’s consciousness.
Israeli human rights organisation since the war ended puts the number of children under 16 killed in the offensive at 252 as opposed to the 89 cited by the military.
After a recent increase in Israeli settler attacks against Palestinian civilians, property and holy sites, the UN envoy Richard Falk arrived in the West Bank this weekend to begin an eleven-day tour of the Palestinian Territories to examine the situation.
Israel's foreign policies, particularly the occupation of the West Bank and the siege on Gaza, are seen neither as legitimate nor as having moral authority, and its political values are seen as chauvinist.
Israel Shahak's (1933 - 2001) "Jewish History, Jewish Religion" argued that while Islamic fundamentalism is vilified in the West, comparable Jewish extremism is largely ignored.
The blaze, which had killed at least 41 people and devastated more than 10,000 acres of land, was still burning out of control 24 hours after it started in the Carmel region.
Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech to congress was a glorious display of total disregard for the rights of the Palestinian people.
Danielle Pletka surprising admission that a nuclear armed Iran's threat to Israel wasn't that it would launch an attack but rather that it could upset the "balance of power" in the region.
JERUSALEM -- An international human rights group has said Israeli undercover agents routinely shoot to kill unarmed Palestinians in violation of the army's own stated rules. (Note)Report first appeared in 1993 but this practice continues.
Israel is impeding efforts to achieve Middle East peace, Saeb Erekat, the former chief Palestinian negotiator said on Monday, rejecting comments by Quartet envoy Tony Blair, according to which the so called Arab Spring was destabilizing the region and harming the peace process.
Undercover Israeli intelligence officers appeared on national television Saturday to talk about assassinating Palestinians in a program broadcast on Israel's Channel 10.
Palestine has reunited. The leaders of Fatah and Hamas who were at war earlier signed an agreement for reconciliation in Cairo. This agreement was joined by 11 of the most major Palestinian factions, including Islamic Jihad.
The fact that complete, permanent borders still have not yet been drawn around Israel 60 years later is testimony to the rancour of its relations with neighbouring Arab states
Bill Clinton had some harsh words for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Thursday. According to Clinton, it‘s Netanyahu’s fault there is no peace between Israelis and Palestinians.
Creating a world free from nuclear perils by seeking the cooperation of nuclear states in strengthening the nonproliferation regime is a lofty ideal. However, while Israel refuses to acknowledge its nuclear status, the whole progress stands impeded.
Israeli private security opens live fire on unarmed Israeli and Palestinians demonstrators. Army arrives and throws tear gas on the demonstrators.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy says the so-called Quartet of Mideast negotiators is a failure and a new method for finding peace is needed.
A national coalition of more than 380 groups, the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation works to end U.S. support for Israel's occupation of the Palestinian West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem. We support a U.S. policy that upholds freedom, justice and equality.
Ritual cursing (by orthodox Rabbi's), with its origin in the esoteric Jewish tradition of mysticism and magic known as the cabbala, has proved effective against their enemies in the past.
Here we go again with Israeli Agent Provocateurs launching bottle rockets into open fields in Israel just to try to get world sympathy for them to launch another campaign of murder against the Palestinians.
Life in occupied Palestine is harsh and repressive, On December 26, Jerusalem's mayor, Nir Barakat, delivered another blow, The Municipality will classify 70,000 Israeli Arab citizens non-residents and involuntarily transfer them to West Bank locations
Imagine Living in limbo under a foreign occupier. Having no self-determination, no right of return, and no power over your daily life. Being in constant fear, economically strangled, and collectively punished.
The 2010 Human Rights and Democracy report prepared and released Thursday by the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office expresses concern over the "growing climate of intolerance in Israeli society, and in particular by the progress of proposed Knesset bills that discriminate …
The spiritual leader of Israel's ultra-orthodox Shas party, Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, has provoked outrage with a sermon calling for the annihilation of Arabs.
June 17,2010: Israel's domestic culture war between religious communities and the secular courts took to the streets on Thursday as tens of thousands of ultra-Orthodox Ashkenazi (European) Jews paralyzed the streets of Jerusalem and the Tel Aviv suburb of Bnei Brak in a protest m …
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