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UN backs Gaza war crimes report

The UN human rights council has endorsed the Goldstone report on Israel's war on Gaza, which accuses the military of using disproportionate force as well as laying charges of war

Jordanian frustration with U.S., Israel mounting

While I was in Jordan, King Abdullah gave a lengthy interview to Haaretz about the Israeli-Palestinian situation in which he warned that "We’re sliding back into the darkness."

The Vichy Government of Palestine

It is not the first time Palestinians have called for the resignation of Mahmoud Abbas. When Hamas swept to victory in the Palestinian Parliamentary Elections in January 2006, angry mobs

Sliming Goldstone and His Report

Is there no limit to the wiles of those dastardly anti-Semites? Now they have decided to slander the Jews with another blood libel.

President Obama’s Conditioned Invitation to Islamic Groups

President George W. Bush’s second term in office witnessed a rise in democratically elected Islamist groups in the Middle East. In the 2005 Lebanese elections, Hezbollah won 10.9 percent of

Obama’s Nobel

The Norwegian Nobel Committee announced today that it's awarding the 2009 Nobel peace prize to Barack Obama.

Ashour: Israeli war created unprecedented birth deformities

Director of Al-Shifa hospital Dr. Hussein Ashour said Saturday that the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip created birth defects in newborns never seen before.

Abbas must go

Mahmoud Abbas’s decision to defer the adoption of the Goldstone report by the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva last week was more than an innocent diplomatic error or classical

Abbas helps Israel bury its crimes in Gaza

Just when it seemed that the Ramallah Palestinian Authority (PA) and its leader Mahmoud Abbas could not sink any lower in their complicity with Israel's occupation of the West Bank

Egyptian Reform Activists Say U.S. Commitment Is Waning

Four months after President Obama delivered an address from Cairo in which he voiced American commitment to human rights and the rule of law, concern is mounting among Egypt's pro-reform