Human rights investigators are adding yet another alleged war crime to existing accusations of Israel’s war-time exuberance, as Amnesty International officials believe Israel’s military forces engaged in “wanton destruction” of civilian homes during the bloody assault on Gaza...

In probably the least appropriate metaphor for relations between Israel and Palestine, Israel has allowed, for the first time in a year, Gazan flower companies to export 25,000 carnations to Europe in time for Valentine’s Day, though the volume pales in comparison to previous annual exports of...

By JATO-NYC A banner drop over New York City's entrance to the Cross Bronx Expressway, at 179th Street and Amsterdam Avenue in Manhattan, carried out by members of Jews Against the Occupation/NYC, declared "Free Palestine." This action by Jewish New Yorkers continued the wave of increasingly public ...

Sign this open letter to President Obama asking him to lift the blockade of Gaza and more, and then ask your like-minded friends to do the same.   Ask Obama to make good on his promise of HOPE. Technorati Tags: Jewish,Palestinians,Palestine,Gaza,Jewish Voice for Peace,middle east,peace [[ This ...

By Chris Farrell - There are only three outcomes of the Palestinian - Israeli conflict: 1.) Two Separate States. 2.) One State that incorporates everyone. 3.) One State from the Jordan River to the sea that incorporates only Israelis and ethinc Jews. It appears that Israel has no intention to allow ...

By Joshua Holland, AlterNet. What if the entire tale of the Jewish Diaspora is historically wrong? What if the Palestinian Arabs who have lived for decades under the heel of the modern Israeli state are in fact descended from the very same "children of Israel" described in the Old Testament? And wha...

ISRAEL WILL BE BLAMED, WHICH IS WHY HAMAS KILLS Andrew Bolt If Hamas is really the peace-loving victim of Israel’s “disproportionate” violence, as the Left loudly claims, why does it want to keep fighting? ISRAEL carried out an air strike on the Gaza Strip overnight after Palestini...

Author and colleague Judy Lash Balint, in a recent, and bitterly poignant post writes: "At the Jerusalem think tank where I work, one of the offices has been dark for almost two months. Noam (not his real name), the bright, articulate, British-born researcher in his mid-thirties, was called up for r...

In this Middle East tragedy, reporters play the despised chorus, infuriating partisans on both sides of the conflict....

Image via Wikipedia The Associated Press Postwar Gaza could become a test of President Barack Obama's inauguration speech offer to hard-liners to "extend a hand if you are willing to unclench your fist." The extended hand would be open borders and international reconstruction money for Hamas-ruled G...