Gareth Porter | Hong Kong | March 11 Asia Times - After Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad in October 2005 called for an end to the state of Israel (as a geographical entity), Israeli leaders began stepping up talk of an "existential threat" to the country. Likud Party leader Binyamin Netanyahu, w...

Headlines from DemocracyNow.org, a daily TV/radio news program, hosted by Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez, airing on over 650 stations, pioneering the largest community media collaboration in the US. US to Open Preliminary Talks with Syria The Obama administration is sending two emissaries to Syria th...

He'll provide Netanyahu with the fig leaf he's been desperately looking for. Thus the right-wing government will find it much easier to evade Barack Obama's pressure. Barak, an egomaniac, narcissistic flip-flopper with the strategic foresight of a blind owl has bungled Camp David before. And now thi...

strip away all the b.s. and this is pretty much what you get... juan cole... Shorter AFP: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will try to tell Binyamin Netanyahu, the far rightwing prospective prime minister of Israel, that he should allow the rebuilding of Gaza and start up a peace process that lead...

Another summit in Sharm El Sheikh... and although the focus was reconstructing Gaza, Hamas was not invited. Those present included the United States, Japan, France, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Turkey. Staying true, they talked a lot and made many promises. Egypt's Foreign Minister tried hard to inflat...

Wanna “Che Herzl” T-shirt? Just surf your way over to Jewlicious and you’ll find it along with all kinds of other swag designed especially for those aspiring to be the coolest of the cool Jews. Yep, I did a double take when I saw this one.  I know there all too many leftists who a...

While I may be too timid to put The People's Voice directly to the people, it does stand a chance of finally making this joke (yeah, yeah, it's Marty Peretz) obsolete: A female CNN journalist heard about a very old Jewish man who had been going to the Western Wall to pray, twice a day, every day, fo...

How's this sound for a plan? 1. Two states for two peoples: Both sides will declare that Palestine is the only state of the Palestinian people and Israel is the only state of the Jewish people. 2. Borders: Permanent borders between the two states will be agreed upon on the basis of the June 4, 1967 ...

It’s been four weeks since the end (or temporary pause) of the war on Gaza. Israel’s merciless pounding of the tiny, sealed strip of land, chronically overcrowded with three generations of refugees, resulted (predictably) in a massive loss of life and catastrophic levels of destruction. My fathe...

I'm already pretty firmly on the record that the continued expansion of the settlements poses a massive threat to the viability of the two-state solution of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. The longer the settlements stay up, many argue, the more entrenched they will become -- eventually, they will...