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President Obama has sent two positive messages to the Arab world in one week, and for that we should be glad.read more

We call upon our fellow writers and academics in the United States to question discourses that justify and rationalize injustice, and to address Israeli assaults on civilians in Gaza as one of the most important moral issues of our time.read more

I met a mother who was at home with her ten children when Israeli soldiers entered the house. The soldiers told her she had to choose five of her children to "give as a gift to Israel."read more

My guest today is Jennifer Loewenstein, the Associate Director of the Middle East Studies Program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and a leading expert on the impact of Israeli policies on Gaza and the West Bank, where she’s been many times.

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The Senate voted unanimously in favor of a resolution vigorously supporting Israel. The House voted 390-5 on a similar resolution.read more

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Not only is Israel unable to win the war, Hamas cannot lose it. Even if the Israeli army were to succeed in killing every Hamas fighter to the last man, even then Hamas would win.read more

I don't know about you but I did not find the Israeli government's Twitter press conference particularly winning.

There is something downright creepy about the juxtaposition of mass civilian casualties in Gaza and Israeli officials' demonstrated fluency in cutesy text message jargon.read more

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Tomorrow, It may be faced with a uniformly fundamentalist Arab world, Hamas multiplied by a thousand.read more

This war is inhuman, superfluous and harmful. Nothing good for Israel will come out of it!read more

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Bush’s reaction, and the non-reaction by Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, underscores the point that Hanan Ashrawi made: “Israel has gotten used to not being held accountable.”read more

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