As Egypt fumbles the truce talks, Israel puts together an extremist, anti-peace bloc government (as opposed to the anti-peace, moderately far-right leadership of Kadima), and the people of Gaza still suffer under a crushing blockade, three US lawmakers toured the Gaza Strip to witness first-hand the destruction of Gaza after Israel’s offensive and on-and-off again [...]
PHOTO: Avigdor Lieberman [Write your own caption] The only democracy in the Middle East (other than Hamas) is arresting its own citizens for protesting against their government’s war crimes in Gaza. Nora Barrows-Friedman is reporting that Israeli police are reviewing videotapes of protesters to see who they’ll arrest next, with the majority arrested, of course, [...]
A few days ago, Yaman wrote about the obvious contradiction between pro-Israeli propaganda proclaiming Israel’s belief in freedom of the press, while at the same time Israel denies journalists access to Gaza, killing journalists and bombing media building. The same propaganda campaign he cited faces another contradiction. Haaretz just reported that the Israel parliament, the [...]