Author: shergald

Fallout from the Goldstone Report on war crimes committed by Israel (and Hamas) in Gaza is only just beginning. But even before the UN report was issued, Israel’s relations with Turkey, once a staunch ally, began to sour....

“We shall overcome!” Where have we heard that song before?This event occurred on August 10. Rabbi Erik Ascherman, director of Rabbis for Human Rights (Israel), was arrested in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of...

…”learn to live with it”. On the arrival of George Mitchell, Obama’s envoy in Israel to negotiate a two state solution within two years, Israel’s foreign minister, Avigdor Lieberman, announced there...

Media Lens put together this long account about how the US is again being led into a double-standard concerning nuclear threats in the Middle East. There is no credible evidence that Iran is seeking a nuclear weapon capability,...

After decades of subterfuge in which Israel agreed to stop building settlements, i.e., stop colonizing Palestinian lands, and then proceeded to do so, the Palestinians have just had enough. Abbas insists on settlement freeze...