You'll recall Gary Ackerman of the "settler pogroms" (plural) remark. Well, it's being reported by Adam Dickter that has been defending himself: Rep. Gary Ackerman is defending his use of the term “pogrom� to describe settler violence against Palestinians late last year...in an interview on Tues...

Are you fucking kidding me? A clerical error led the UN to falsely accuse Israel of shelling one of its Gaza schools in the Jabalya refugee camp during Operation Cast Lead, the international organization admitted this week. For close to a month, the UN accused the Israel of hitting the educational c...

Be very clear about what is being done, with foresight and planning, by the Israelis in Gaza. This time , the IDF has fired three white phosphorus shells at a UNRWA compound in Gaza City that was being used to shelter hundreds of civilians (fortunately, for some reason, few were injured and no one d...

Over the past six months the interest groups taking sides in the Israeli-Gaza conflict have ratcheted up their dueling e-mail campaigns. Irregular Times now gets at least five e-mail blasts a day from groups asking us to do something or other like “Make This a Weekend for Gaza” and at le...

Whether it was because Israel's political leaders lost their nerve after yesterday's school incidents, are providing a genuine humanitarian relief to Gazans who are caught between Hamas and a hard place, or because they think that Israel benefits from giving Hamas three hours to regroup and rearm, i...

Arab hostility toward Israel seems to oscillate between pathological aggression and victimized resentment, underscored the entire time by utterly shameless denial. So Hamas can violate the ceasefire for months by shooting at Israeli civilians and at Israeli soldiers. They can brag openly about those...

They're just making this up as they go along: Palestinians in Gaza believed Israel had called a 48-hour lull in retaliatory attacks with Hamas when Israeli warplanes launched a massive bombardment of militant installations in the Gaza Strip, a UN official said Monday. Karen Abu Zayd, commissioner of...

Popular Committee Against Siege PCAS issues a comprehensives report on the latest of siege outcomes which hit all life aspects. The crisis came up strongly as Israel completely closed crossings, banned food stuff, fuel shipments and all products into Gaza Strip. The recent Israeli hazardous siege ti...