Lately war has been a hot topic. There have been the events of the Arab Spring and all the activity there. There has been the locating and subsequent killing of Osama Bin Laden, negotiations between our government and the Taliban…
By Thomas Riggins The children of US troops are exposed to serious mental health risks. The government knows that thousands of children of members of the armed forces have mental health problems associated with their parents participation in imperialist wars overseas….
The Lists of Alleged Participants in the 2009 Gaza Action The news media in Israel has been boiling over with righteous anger in the last few days. An anonymous group has published a list of Israeli soldiers online, who are…
Because I have been a negligent blogger, my predictions regarding the peace talks now seem a little obvious. But this has been my opinion from the very beginning of the current round of talks, despite the optimists that appeared to…
Israel-Palestine Desk – Decaying Democracy I thought I would do something a little different this time. Instead of reporting on an event, I translated a bill that has been endorsed by the Israeli Cabinet and has been tabled at the…
The Turkish Flotilla and the March of Folly It has been a couple of weeks now, but the events that followed the attempts of an Turkish flotilla of ships to bring aid to Gaza was enough of a watershed event…
Attempting to End the Conflict – Part III – Withdrawal from Gaza (again) This is the third and final part of the entry dealing with the attempts to end the conflict. It starts with the attempts to end the violence…
Attempting to End the Conflict – Part II – the Oslo Process This second part of the post on the attempts to end the conflict will detail the negotiations between Israel is in representatives from the early nineties to the…
Israel Palestine Desk Attempting to End the Conflict – Part I – The Parties After writing this post I found it to be much much longer than I originally anticipated. I have therefore split it into three parts. In the…
In this post I will describe what I consider to be Israel’s inexcusable treatment of the population of the Occupied Territories. The expulsion of major parts of the Palestinian population in 1948 was a brutal violation of human rights. That…
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