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Political Cartoons
A Scientific Explanation of the Mid-East Crisis
Things That Are Not Worth the Loss of Another Human Life
The Optimist’s Guide to the War with Iraq
Uncle oSAMa Says: I Want YOU To Invade Iraq
Hysteria
The Contest over the Palestinian Curriculum
A textbook case of Israeli propaganda
Israeli Textbooks Promote Racism
Wombs in the service of the state
Demagography as the enemy of democracy
The Palestinian Right of Return
Fictions Embraced by an Israel at War
Looking Behind Ha’aretz‘s Liberal Image
There’s Something Wrong With Evil
Silencing Critics: The Logic of Occupation – Part 2
Listen to them – for security reasons
What a Difference Four Years Makes
45% of those called, don’t serve
A good citizen defends his country
The attack in Hebron was not a ‘massacre’
Compassionate Justice: The Logic of Occupation – Part 3
IDF strives to avoid harming civilians
Israel No. 2 in West in social inequality
Israel’s Demographic Obsession
The Shin Bet wants you to join Qaida
Converted to Islam? The Government Will Send You To A Psychiatrist
Perspectives on the Middle East: A response
The New York Times gets an ‘F’ for geography
Zionism according to Theodor Herzl
Is Reading Milton Unsafe at Any Speed?
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Conscientious objection to military service – UN Commission on Human Rights resolution 1998
It’s up to us not to heed the call-up
Travels with Mohammed – (Part 1 of 2)
Travels with Mohammed – (Part 2 of 2)
No ‘Jewish character’ in Nazareth
Trembling Before The Gods Of War
How To Shut Up Your Critics With A Single Word
Meditating on War and Guilt, Zen Says It’s Sorry
A Skeptic About Wars Intended to Stamp Out Evil
The U.S. Needs to Open Up to the World
The Martin Luther King You Don’t See On TV
Fraud Fit For A King: Israel, Zionism, And The Misuse Of MLK
Why Today’s Europeans Object to America’s Worldview
No, This War Would Not Be Moral
Demographer: Save Negev and Galilee now
The Way to Build a Peace Movement
A Pacifist Interprets the Midnight Plague
Anat Matar: Citizen vs. Soldier
Matania Ben-Artzi: A Letter to Supreme Court President, Aharon Barak
Democracy is not an Israeli value
Latest Update on Israeli Refusers
How to Support the Israeli Refusers
Israeli Refusers Right to Refuse
Knesset forbids citizenship to Palestinians who marry Israelis
Road map to perpetuating the status quo
June 24 2003 Update on Refusers
The High Court and fear of return
Palestinian Mob Attacks Pollster
The Burden of Tolerance in a World of Division
‘Hatred’: When Bad People Do Bad Things
Law banning family unification
A Classicist’s Legacy: New Empire Builders
The Singer Solution to World Poverty
‘One World’: The Moral and Practical Challenges of Globalization
Philosophy Under Fire: The Peter Singer Controversy
A Wall of Separation Through the Heart
First of All, the Wall Must Fall
The Top 25 Censored Media Stories of 2002-2003
One State or Two? A False Dilemma
Palestine/Israel: One state for all its citizens
A War-Weary People Reach Out in Pain — and Hope
What became of the Israeli left?
Families seek truth over Israeli deaths
The IDF’s daily chorus of incitement
Defensive walls of self-righteousness
Dignity, Solidarity and the Penal Colony
We are Seriously Concerned About the Fate of the State of Israel
Interview with Norman Finkelstein
INTERVIEW WITH PROFESSOR NORMAN G. FINKELSTEIN
5 IDF conscripts sentenced to year in jail
A little bit of anarchy won’t hurt
World Jewry is not an amen chorus
Each Day the Government Becomes More Dictatorial
Benny Morris’s Shocking Interview
Background to the Israel-Palestine Crisis
One Year Later: “What will it take?”
Negotiations
Camp David: The Tragedy of Errors
Camp David and After: An Exchange
Where have all the refugees gone?
Who’s afraid of an Oslo investigation?
Ziyad Abu Zayad’s statement of principles
Breezes, if not winds, of change
A local initiative that went international
Resolution 194 recommends, but does not demand
Today’s road map, tomorrow’ s road kill
Roadblocks on the Path to Peace
‘Security in two months – but not for settlements’
Parallel Sovereignty for Palestine/Israel
Kosovo as the West Bank, Macedonia as Israel
Bypassing the political establishments to peace
Israelis & Palestinians: What Went Wrong?
On Sultan Suleiman Street, they prefer Sharon
They just can’t hear each other
The other Mideast moment of truth
Jump In – or Stop Making Waves
Time for the Palestinians to choose life
AkivaEldar on the Bush-Sharon-Abbas summit
Peace can’t be bought on the layaway plan
Arabs, Israelis drag their leaders toward a truce
Dramatic leaps needed to clear hurdles
The Palestinians’ big achievement
Cry, the beloved two-state solution
Every day the Hudna lasts is a miracle
A disastrous dead end: the Geneva Accord
Which kind of binational state?
One State or Two? A Response to Leon Weiseltier
The False Hope of the Geneva Accord
The Geneva Accords – Text and Context
`Upgraded’ hudna lets both sides claim victory
To beat Hamas, cooperate with the PA
The failure of the policy of force
In the eyes of the occupied beholders
How Israel is founding a Hamas state
Golda speaking from Bush’s mouth
Occupation
The Boy Who Kissed the Soldier
Burning the Oslo candle at both ends
Rising Toll in Suicide Bombers
Occupation without responsibility
Perfecting the Violence of Curfew
The homeland purified of Arabs
Wake up and smell the occupation
An Israeli’s Sorrowful Rule Over a Sullen Nablus
Violence breeds Violence: The Logic of Occupation – Part 1
The Intifada is becoming more popular
Every soldier’s a chief of staff
Breeding grounds of despair and fatigue
Looking for a rented apartment in a refugee camp
In Nablus, Strife Dims Dreams and Daily Life
The Routine Calamities That Destroy Lives
The wall goes on and on and on…
The state Sharon is talking about
Israel destroys entire commercial market in one day
The Choreography of Occupation
Israel must end its policy of closures
International community supports a deluxe occupation
Israeli Security Barrier: Bar to Terror or to Peace?
Explaining The Occupation To The Occupier
Lesser-Known Stories from the Only Democracy in the Middle East
Humiliation can scar a boy for life
Who’s in charge in the territories?
Politics
FPIF Talking Points: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Haaretz Post 67 History Part 1
Haaretz Post 67 History Part 2
Haaretz Post 67 History Part 3
Yes It’s Broke. Now Fix It. by Henry Siegman
Confronting Anti-American Grievances
How to cease from a cease-fire
If there’s smoke, there’s no cease-fire
Only one economic program can save us
Lebanon-style dissent and despondency returns
Moshe comes down from the mountain
Preemptive warnings of fantastic scenarios
Confronting Anti-American Grievances
Marwan Barghouti’s New Year’s wishes
Introspection as a Prerequisite for Peace
Real Battles and Empty Metaphors
Imagining the Worst-Case Scenario in Iraq
He who rides on the back of a tiger
An Arab parliament that speaks its mind
Between a Jewish rock and an Arab hard place
Someone is not telling the truth
Artificial Crisis, Artificial Response
Yearning for World War IV: The Israel-Iraq connection
The Struggles of Democracy and Empire
“Regime change” — and then what?
What the US President wants us to forget
Sept. 11 and wars of the world
Of Occupation and Apartheid – Do I Divest?
The Wrong War at the Wrong Time
American goals, Israeli illusions
Where is Israel’s Daniel Ellsberg?
Why Does the Leopard Hide his Spots?
Conscientious Objection and the Democratization of Israel
American intervention in Israel’s elections
It’s too bad I can’t vote for him
The dark underside of Yosef Lapid
Bush’s frightening Middle East appointment
Refusal to serve could be contagious
It’s my party and I’ll cry if I want to
The attorney general’s smoke screen
Five rules set by the Kingdom of the Settlements
My brother’s fight for democracy
Noam Chomsky Q & A on Anarchism
Notes on Anarchism by Noam Chomsky
Activism, Anarchism, and Power – Conversation with Noam Chomsky
First Worldwide Press Freedom Index
The myth of the state and the reality of the annexation
There is fire even without a smoking gun
The opponents of war on Iraq are not the appeasers
Iraq: Going in is the Easy Part
The Protesters: Right for the Wrong Reasons
Amnesty International on Israel’s Conscientious Objectors
War Resistors International on Israel’s Conscientious Objectors
It’s OK to Eat Belgian Chocolate
Hell no, Bibi’s nephew won’t go
Lessons from Israel: The Logic of Occupation Part 4
Prologue to a festival of revenge
Susan Barclay: “Security Threat”
The Way to Build a Peace Movement
Politics and the English Language
What will this nation be in years to come?
Oh, Bush, not everyone who mounts a steed is a horseman
Chomsky On The Anti War Movement
Mesopotamia. Babylon. The Tigris and Euphrates
The war’s implications for Israel
Is Islam Inherently Anti-American?
A guide for the perplexed by Sharon
Why Israel is so excited about Abu Mazen
The men who are selling Palestine
At Midnight, a Knock on the Door
Middle East peace: Another painful mirage?
As different as chalk and cheese
Return of the ‘constraints ministers’
The horse is out of the stable
The missile aimed at Hamas hits Abbas and Bush
Hamas has more than one equation
The importance of the hudna for the PA
Cornered, besieged and in charge
Why Vicki Knafo gives bouquets to Netanyahu
Sharon’s Speech: Decoded Version
Too late for two states? – Part I
Too late for two states? – Part II
Alarm bells should now be heard
A government of ‘oops, our mistake’
Yassin’s death may be end of PA in Gaza
Now Hamas could align with Al-Qaida
The fine line between moderate and extreme
The lines between good and evil have blurred
The democracy of the Likud rank and file
Maybe Likud can, but doesn’t want to
Gaza may be model for the West Bank
Sharon, Arafat and Bush must go
Settlements
Reform in the Territories for the Jews Too
Where have all our shekels gone?
Settlement tightens the noose on Jerusalem
The shuttered houses on Holy Days
Slain Jewish Settler Is Finally Buried After Riot
Benny Elon’s long, strange trip
No end to the growing settlements insult
Shades of optimism in a grim reality
Could Sharon’s Israel pay its settlers to go?
The settlers are not the golem
War Crimes
“I made them a stadium in the middle of the camp” and the Hebrew original.
30 of 49 Palestinians killed in August were civilians
Deterrents that haven’t deterred
Amnesty International on Killing of Children
Scraping the bottom of the cistern
War is aForce That Gives us Meaning
Will you just stand on the sidelines?
Suicide Bombers Commit Crimes Against Humanity
A fighter’s life is worth more than a child’s
The wrong way to fight terrorism
Hebron Residents Describe an Israeli Reign of Beatings
B’Tselem Report: Soldiers’ Abuse of Palestinians in Hebron, 3 December 2002
Humiliation is more than a sum of incidents
Sharon’s Fingerprints on Latest Suicide Bombing
The IDF’s ‘permissiveness’ in the territories
Palestinians: Israelis ‘deserved’ Haifa bombing
Threats of forced mass expulsion
When Jewish blood is shed, the IDF investigates
Of broken bodies and unbreakable laws
Rachel Corrie, Nuha Sweidan and Israeli War Crimes
We hit Hamas chief knowing civilians were near
What the IDF considers `political’
Israeli nuclear ‘power’ exposed
Israelis leave, Gazans pick up the pieces
The Stage Is Set For Ethnic Cleansing
What the fatality statistics tell us
Terror doesn’t need Hamas leaders
Birth and death at the checkpoint
Interview with Jessica Montell of B’Tselem
Bomber Left Her Family With a Smile and a Lie
Bitter harvest in West Bank’s olive groves
`I punched an Arab in the face’
Facility 1391: Israel’s secret prison
Injured fence protester questioned under warning
An account of the shooting of Israeli protestor
A sudden concern for the Palestinian child