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Top Ten Steps that are Necessary for Lasting Gaza-Israel Peace (or, Good Luck!)
1. The Israeli blockade on Gaza exports and non-military imports must be lifted altogether. Ben White points out that the restrictions on goods brought into […]
Gaza Truce Declared (Jamiol Cartoon)
Courtesy Jamiol’s World
Morsi Emerges as Key Power Broker in Gaza Conflict
Egypt’s President Muhammad Morsi, a member of the same Muslim Brotherhood that gave birth to Palestine’s Hamas movement, has emerged as a key broker in […]
Gaza: Israeli Rightists Propose Cutting Water, Electricity, but oppose ground op (OSC)
The USG Open Source Center summarizes the Israeli press on the inadvisability of a ground assault on Gaza, and right-wing suggestions for alternatives such as […]
Cole on Gaza Crisis (Granholm, Current TV Interview)
Jennifer Granholm of Current TV’s “War Room” (10 pm ET) interviewed me on Gaza:
Gaza’s Health Crisis and Israel’s Crimes Against Humanity
Israeli air strikes for the past 6 days have killed over 100 Palestinians in Gaza, many of them women and children; one strike deliberately targeted […]
Live report from Gaza, attacks on Journalists (Democracy Now!)
From Democracy Now! – a live report from a Gaza hospital The blurb for the show: We get a live report from independent journalist Mohammed […]
Could a Gaza Land War lose the Middle East for America?
Abd al-Ra’uf Arna’ut writes in the PLO newspaper al-Ayyam (The Days) that behind the scenes, the Obama administration and its European allies are exerting enormous […]
Blaming Gen. Petraeus for the Wrong Mistakes: Remembering Afghanistan (Cook)
Regular readers know that I have been critical of Gen. Petraeus’s counterinsurgency doctrine because I found it unrealistic, and I wish the US had just […]