Zionism: Pitting The West Against Islam

The history of Israel has often been read as the saga of a people marked for extinction, who emerged from nazi death camps from Auschwitz, Belcec and Treblinka to establish their own country in 1948. Without taking away anything from the suffering of European Jews, I will insist that this way of thinking [...]

Was Israeli raid a dry run for attack on Iran?

The head of Israel’s airforce, Major-General Eliezer Shkedi, was visiting a base in the coastal city of Herziliya last week. For the 50-year-old general, also the head of Israel’s Iran Command, which would fight a war with Tehran if ordered, it was a morale-boosting affair, a meet-and-greet with pilots and navigators who had flown during [...]

Iraqi oil exports to north rise

Kirkuk, Iraq - A campaign to stop sabotage on the key Iraqi oil pipeline running north from Kirkuk to Turkey has led to sustained oil exports for the first time since the war began, say US officers and Iraqi officials.
Iraq’s state oil company now has 15 million barrels of crude for sale at the Turkish [...]

In Ahmadinejad’s Iran, Jews still find a space

Enmity runs deep between arch-foes Iran and Israel. And that confrontation complicates the lives of Iranian Jews, who make up the largest community of Jews in the Middle East outside the Jewish state.
Iran’s Jews are buffeted by inflammatory rhetoric from President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad about “wiping Israel off the map” and denying the Holocaust, and a [...]

Debating Ahmadinejad at Columbia

A tall man with white hair, wearing a US-flag print shirt and pants, patrolled the sidewalk at 116th and Broadway. He waved a huge American flag as he marched, in movements that were nearly metronomic in their consistency. Stacks of brochures sat on a bare and rickety table, waiting to be handed out to anyone [...]

Que la guerra no nos sea indiferente

Hace poco más de una semana que inició la guerra en Medio Oriente. Cuando uno se encuentra tan lejos de esta región, puede parecer difícil acercarse a este conflicto que ha superado en el tiempo tantos intentos de negociación y acuerdos de paz fracasados. Pero después de tanto que hemos visto y leído y escuchado, [...]

Norman Finkelstein & Former Israeli Foreign Minister Shlomo Ben-Ami Debate: Complete Transcript

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We turn now to one of the longest running and most bitter conflicts in modern history: Israel and the Palestinians. Well over a decade has passed since the historic Oslo Accords that brought hopes for a lasting peace. Today, relations between the Israeli government and Palestinian Authority are virtually [...]

The Secret Dealings of Israel, Iran, and the United States

“In a speech at Columbia University, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad defended Iran’s right to nuclear power but denied Iran was seeking to build nuclear weapons. Ahmadinejad’s appearance sparked widespread protests at Columbia. We speak with Trita Parsi, author of “Treacherous Alliance: The Secret Dealings of Israel, Iran and the United States” and Baruch professor Ervand [...]

Outsourcing foreign policy

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The Bollinger/Ahmadinejad farce

Imagine the scene: As angry protesters march outside, a nation’s unpopular president prepares to address students and faculty at a prestigious university. Introducing the president, the head of the university is bluntly critical of his guest speaker: “You, quite simply, [are] ridiculous. You are either brazenly provocative or astonishingly uneducated. . . . I doubt [...]