Is the Iranian nuclear challenge impossible to solve? To judge by President Ahmadinejad's fiery rhetoric and his seeming indifference to world opinion, you could be forgiven for thinking so. The mullahs now look ready to defy the UN's month-long ultimatum on uranium...
‘The Israel Lobby’ Revisited
Professors John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt created quite a stir earlier this year with their report "The Israel Lobby," which contends that Israeli influence has led the U.S. to adopt self-destructive policies in the Middle East. In the following video...
No, We’re Not ‘All Israelis Now’
Even in an age when e-mail, word processors, and high-speed Internet connections allow writers to almost instantaneously publish glaringly inchoate offerings, it is not often that one comes across a work as poorly conceived as Larry Kudlow's contribution to National...
A Handful of Neocons Are Instigating a Wider War
What explains the indifference of the Bush administration to the slaughter of civilians in Iraq, Lebanon, and Gaza? As of the morning of July 19, Israeli bombardments of Lebanese civilian residential districts and public infrastructure have murdered 300 Lebanese,...
Olmert’s Folly?
Israel's recent response to actions by Hamas and Hezbollah has raised alarms in the region to a higher level than in any time since the Yom Kippur War of 1973. Rather than strengthen Israel's security, it might well have weakened it by setting the stage, perhaps...
In US, Not All Casualties Are Equal
Numerous U.S. groups, intellectuals, politicians and media outlets are mobilizing in the United States to back Israel in its ongoing assault on neighboring Lebanon with one main idea to promote that Israel is always the victim. On Sunday morning, millions of...
What a Fine Mess
To say that the situation in the Middle East right now is a mess would be an understatement of gargantuan proportions. Israel has sent ground troops into Lebanon. The violence between Hezbollah and Israeli forces has killed more than 300 people (the vast majority of...
Is Anyone Still Listening to the Flaming Bush?
Please name the U.S. presidential candidate who made the following point during the 2000 race for the White House: "I think that one of the problems that we have faced in the world is that we are so much more powerful than any single nation has been in...
The Human Shields of Nazareth
Nazareth hit the international headlines for the first time in this vicious war being waged by Israel mostly on Lebanese civilians. Reporter Matthew Price, corseted in a blue flak jacket in Haifa, told BBC viewers that for the first time Hezbollah had targeted...
A Voice From the Most Dangerous Place on Earth
For IPS and those closely associated with slain reporter Alaa Hassan, June 28 was a day unlike any other for the first time since the beginning of the war in Iraq, IPS lost a reporter in the line of duty. Hassan's killing marks the second time in its 42-year...


