Middle East

The Al Aksa Martyrs Brigades of the Fatah are defined by both the US and Israeli governments as a terrorist organization, yet both governments ignore that operative legal definition and choose to define the...

FOUR QUESTIONS TO MARTIN RAFFEL, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE JEWISH COUNCIL FOR PUBLIC AFFAIRS, THE JCPA, AN ORGANIZATION REPRESENTING FOURTEEN NATIONALLY BASED JEWISH GROUPS IN THE USA, ALONG WITH MORE THAN ONE HUNDRED LOCALLY...

Well, it was unlikely that Rice, who was just here, would have readily walked away without further concessions from Israel for the sake of the "peace process." Some concessions, of some sort, from our...

On October 6, 2001 at its National Convention in Seattle, the Society of Professional Journalists passed a resolution urging members and fellow journalists to take steps against racial profiling in their coverage of the...

"It Smells" Still last night I had a bit of a "wait and see" attitude: We're still in Gaza, if Hamas hits us we may start again. Who knows. Well, now we know. Hamas has just...

Crimes against Humanity: Hamas’ Abuse of Gilad Schalit’s Human Rights, Its Rocket and Mortar Attacks on Israeli Populations And Hamas’ and Iran’s Incitement to Genocide During June 2008 through January 2009 A Brief Submitted to: Professor Richard Goldstone Fact Finding Mission c/o...

The principle of Freedom of the Press assures every media outlet the right to publish freely in the public domain. Yet on Yom Kippur, we couch that freedom with a restraint on "Hotzaat Shem...

Jewish World Review March 18, 2010 / 3 Nissan 5770 http://jewishworldreview.com/cols/thomas031810.php3 "Enemy: "a person who feels hatred for, fosters harmful designs against, or engages in antagonistic activities against another; an adversary or opponent." - Dictionary.com Despite Vice...

JERUSALEM - An official Iranian government news agency has announced that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad held a telephone conversation with his Venezuelan counterpart Hugo Chavez in which the Iranian leader announced the country’s agreement...

If Israel truly had wanted to “massacre” the Hamas sympathizers and fellow travellers aboard a six-ship Gaza-bound flotilla, the operation would not have been complicated. The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) would have used the...