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Silencing Justice: The Murder of Alberto Nisman

Alberto Nisman, the lead prosecutor who had been investigating Iran's role in the 1994 Hezbollah bombing of a Jewish center of Buenos Aires, was...

Don’t mention the war…writes Michael Kuttner

Do you remember the episode from Fawlty Towers where a group of German tourists was due to visit and Basil, played by John Cleese,...

Israeli Arab MK: Settlements are morally superior to kibbutzim

Israeli Arab MK: Settlements are morally superior to kibbutzim "After all, what is the difference between the settlements and kibbutzim morally? Settlements are much better, as...

Dr. Mordechai Kedar puts IS burning of Jordanian pilot into context of Islam

Op-Ed: Hell on Earth Burning alive a human being is a method of eliminating enemies that is well known and documented in early Islamic...
Palestinian journalists hold placards during a demonstration in support with reporters detained by Hamas in Gaza and to ask for their immediate release on January 27, 2013 in the West Bank city of Ramallah. AFP PHOTO/ABBAS MOMANI (Photo credit should read ABBAS MOMANI/AFP/Getty Images)

Threat of violence silences Palestinian journalists

How loud is the voice you hear when you sit down to write a press report? How small is the prison cell you imagine...

Why Is Hamas Smiling?

In 2007, Abbas lost the Gaza Strip to Hamas. Now he seems to be losing the Gaza Strip to his rivals in Fatah. Many...

U.S. Seen in Middle East as Ally of Terrorists

Many Egyptians and moderate Arabs and Muslims were shocked to hear that the U.S. State Department recently hosted a Muslim Brotherhood delegation. They were...

Let Hezbollah and Islamic State destroy one another

While the al-Qaeda-affiliated Jabhat al-Nusra organization is taking over almost all the territory facing our Golan Heights, and the Islamic State is breaking into...
U.S. President Barack Obama talks with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani during a phone call in the Oval Office, September 2013. (Pete Souza / Courtesy Reuters)

Obama’s Secret Iran Strategy

resident Barack Obama wishes the Islamic Republic of Iran every success. Its leaders, he explained in a recent interview, stand at a crossroads. They...

Former Head of UN Gaza Human Rights Probe Reportedly Lied About PLO-Linked Conflict of...

William Schabas, the Canadian academic who this week resigned as the head of a a UN inquiry into the summer 2014 war between Israel...