Intro: Tragedy, Violence and Bourgeois Discourse Your average American is no stranger to murder. Periodically, we hear of another senseless crime, another mass murder, another tragedy taking innocent life. Like clockwork, whenever a high-profile shooting takes place in America, two… Read More ›
Ruth Pollard JERUSALEM: Israel has described as ”hypocritical” a decision by the United Nations Human Rights Council to launch an investigation into the impact of its settlement construction on the human rights of Palestinians. About 500,000 Israelis and 2.5 million… Read More ›
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has raised the specter of war by saying unilateral strikes on Iranian nuclear sites are possible within months. Speaking with local media for the first time since returning from Washington earlier this week, Netanyahu said… Read More ›
With Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu due at the White House on Monday, Iran and its nuclear ambitions are again front-and-center on the policy agenda. The Atlantic just posted a report about its interview with President Obama on Wednesday in… Read More ›
Officials Plan to Keep US ‘In the Dark’ About Impending Strike by Jason Ditz, February 28, 2012 Reports quoting a number of anonymous US and Israeli officials today say that the Israeli government has decided, and has informed the US,… Read More ›
* In the past two years, four Iranian scientists have been mysteriously assassinated * The only one to survive so far is Fereidoun Abbasi-Davani, now the head of Iran’s atomic energy organization, who jumped away from his car seconds before… Read More ›
(Reuters) – A Palestinian held without trial ended a 66-day hunger strike Tuesday after Israeli authorities promised to release him in April in a deal that avoided judicial review of its detention policy. Khader Adnan, a 33-year-old member of the… Read More ›
The Original Sin: Assassinating Iranian Scientists by ISMAEL HOSSEIN-ZADEH To avoid restating the obvious, or repeating what others have already established, I take these facts as givens: that the main perpetrator of the assassination of Iranian scientists has been the… Read More ›
JERUSALEM — A Palestinian prisoner who has refused food for two months to protest his detention without trial is in “immediate danger of death,” according to his attorneys and a doctor from an Israeli medical rights group who examined him… Read More ›
GAZA CITY: Three people were wounded early Sunday morning in an Israeli air strike on Gaza, medical sources said, hours after another strike injured one man. According to the sources, the latest air strike, which targeted a home in the… Read More ›
By Richard Engel and Robert Windrem Deadly attacks on Iranian nuclear scientists are being carried out by an Iranian dissident group that is financed, trained and armed by Israel’s secret service, U.S. officials tell NBC News, confirming charges leveled by… Read More ›
Harriet Sherwood in Jerusalem Khader Adnan, detained without charge for two months, may be close to death say human rights groups A Palestinian prisoner who has been on hunger strike for more than eight weeks is being kept shackled to… Read More ›
by John Glaser, February 04, 2012 In a national “Day of Mass Action,” Americans protested a seemingly imminent U.S. war against Iran in over 60 cities and towns across the country. In San Francisco, about 600 people participated in the… Read More ›
By ARON HELLER Associated Press JERUSALEM January 1, 2012 (AP) Images of ultra-Orthodox Jews dressing up as Nazi concentration camp inmates during a protest drew widespread condemnation Sunday and added a new twist to a simmering battle over growing extremism… Read More ›
The Red Phoenix 