The fifth anniversary of the US invasion of Iraq should have been an occasion for the chief war planners in the Bush…
As Israel intensified its collective punishment of the Palestinians, and launched its latest assault on Gaza, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas suspended negotiations…
As the US presidential race intensifies, it is becoming clear that the campaigns of the leading candidates are largely defined by two…
The proclamation of Kosovo’s independence last week and the international community reactions to it expose the tensions inherent in the present world…
The Israeli Commission which investigated the 2006 Lebanon war handed down its final report last month. Retired Judge Eliyahu Winograd, who headed…
If we put aside diplomatic niceties and self-serving proclamations of an urgent need for peace and Israeli readiness to ‘make painful sacrifices’…
Access to and control of Middle East oil has figured prominently in the strategic thinking of American policy makers. In the Bush…
As expected the Annapolis meeting did not address the substantive issues of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Palestinians and Israelis expected different things…
The Bush administration, anxious to create some legacy other than the unmitigated fiasco of the Iraq war, is preparing to host…
Some of the most credible testimonies against the Iraq war come from those very American soldiers expected to inflict the horrors of…
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