Category: Palestine

  by Larry Everest   Shortly after darkness fell on Saturday night, January 3, Israel launched a massive land invasion of Gaza involving 9,000-10,000 soldiers, tanks, helicopters, and heavy artillery, engineering and…

  by Kevin Gosztola       On December 28, the US vetoed a Security Council draft resolution to end Israel’s “disproportionate use of force” on Gazans. The vote was 11 ayes, three abstentions…

  By Robert Parry   Without an extreme double standard on terrorism, it’s hard to see how today’s bloodbath in Gaza would be possible.   Israel, a nation that was born out…

  By Cynthia McKinney   Yesterday, we met with the President of Lebanon, the Chief of the Military, and the Interior Minister who all thanked us for responding and risking our lives…

  A letter from Cynthia McKinney   I’m so glad that my father told me to buy a special notebook and to write everything down because that’s exactly what I did.  …

  When a small delegation from World Can’t Wait, Friends of Sabeel and Veterans for Peace pulled up to the checkpoint at the entrance to Obama’s vacation retreat to protest Israel’s massacre…

  By Kenneth J. Theisen   On Tuesday Israel added to its crimes by attacking a medical relief boat trying to reach Gaza. An Israeli navy ship attacked and rammed a boat…

In addition to doctors, journalists, and other humanitarians from around the world, among those aboard this ship was Cynthia McKinney, former US Representative from Georgia, 2008 Green Party presidential candidate, and member of…

By Chris Hedges Can anyone who is following the Israeli air attacks on Gaza—the buildings blown to rubble, the children killed on their way to school, the long rows of mutilated corpses,…

  By Kenneth J. Theisen   As I write this article, the people of Gaza have undergone three days of bombardment by the Israeli military that is nothing short of a war…