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Palestinian entrepreneur Akram al-Umur, 45, turns collected paper into egg cartons in Khan Yunis, Gaza on Oct. 17, 2022. Palestinians are experts in making do with nothing. If Israel lifted [...]

In Dec. 2019, the Washington Post released a slew of government documents known as the 'Afghanistan Papers,' revealing the U.S. government has long realized the 20-year war in Afghanistan is [...]

The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War by Craig Whitlock, Simon & Schuster, 2021, hardcover, 368 pp. MEB $28. Just as the Pentagon Papers changed the public's understanding [...]

To The Dallas Morning News, Dec. 12, 2019 For those opposed to the Afghan war, the so-called Afghanistan Papers [published by the Washington Post] come as no surprise. We now [...]

To the Star Tribune, Dec. 11, 2019 Many years ago, someone stated that 'the first casualty of war is truth.' The Dec. 10 Star Tribune headline 'U.S. lied about Afghan [...]

The article focuses on a policy paper "Breaking the Israel Palestine Status Quo," which was presented at a web-based conference organized by this journal. It was prepared by former policy makers who assessed what U.S. engagement has been in the region and to re-imagine that engagement. It is noted that Palestinians wanted the U.S. involved, was because they believed that only U.S. can deliver Israel.

The article presents several letters published in various news papers including "Enterprise-Record," "The Plain Dealer" and "Portland Press Herald." The topics include increasing violence witnessed during Israel- Palestine conflict, U.S. President Joe Biden's support for Israel and the need for U.S. to change its policy towards Israel.

The article discusses a panel discussion hosted by Middle East Institute (MEI) at Washington, DC on January 13, 2019. Topics discussed include MEI nonresident fellow Jason Pack's paper "An International Financial Commission is Libya's Last Hope," an economic-based approach of Pack to end Libya's six-year civil war and views of Nate Mason, former commercial officer at the American Embassy in Tripoli, Libya, on economic concerns.

The article reports on challenges posed by Turkish local elections on opposition, as well as President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. It informs that ruling party is dominating the media and public discourse, with all the mainstream papers and television channels supporting Erdogan and the Justice and Development Party; and the impact of Turkey's military activities in neighboring Syria on elections.

The article discusses the virtual roundtable on the published Chatham House research paper, "Community Dynamics and Economic Interests of Libyan Armed Groups" and civil war hosted by Middle East lnstitute (MEl) on April 7, 2020. Topics discussed include refugees and migrants remaining in abysmal detention centers and facing grave risk of human rights abuses; need for funding a strong COVID-19 humanitarian response; and control of the Central Bank of Libya.

The article informs that Middle East Institute hosted a program on Nathan Stock's recently released paper "There is No ‘Status Quo': Drivers of Violence in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. It mentions that Stock argues that domestic Israeli politics, Palestinian leadership, lack of legal status for Palestinians and the continuing illegal Israeli occupation are key drivers of violent conflict.

The article 'Iran Admits to raiding Greek Oil Tankers' in my June 4 local paper correctly stated that it was the U.S. and Greece that first seized crude oil from [...]

Rosemarie M. Esber's May 2021 article, 'The Washington Post Redacted Facts About Israel's Destruction of COVID-19 Clinics,' certainly raises serious questions regarding the paper's 'correction' to her letter. However, serious [...]

The article reports on the release of a policy paper titeld "Our Foreign Policy Choices: Rethinking America's Global Role," by the scholars of CATO Institute in July 2016 that focuses on the international relations of the U.S.

THE U.S. SUPPORTS 'GOLIATH'S' APARTHEID To The Spokesman-Review, May 22, 2021 Yesterday's paper said Joe Biden talked to Israel's [Binyamin] Netanyahu but 'stopped short of demanding an immediate stop to [...]

The article focuses on the theatrical production "It's What We Do: A Play About the Occupation" written and directed by Pamela Nice and performed at the Atlas Theater in Washington, D.C. and its receipt of awards from the newspaper "Washington City Paper" and the website DCMetroTheaterArts.

Prof. Abdul Aziz Said, 91, a Syrian-born political scientist, educator, author, and editor of 25 books, and more than 100 papers, died on Jan. 22, 2021. He was a professor [...]

To the Daily Camera, Jan. 25, 2021 I read with interest the recent position paper of the Israeli human rights organization B'Tselem, which stated that Israel is an 'apartheid state.' [...]

One of the most secretive military campaigns in U.S. history has come under intense scrutiny by investigative reporters of the Intercept. 'The Drone Papers' has documented the highly flawed U.S. [...]

On June 26, 2024, WikiLeaks founder and publisher Julian Assange pled guilty to one count of violating the Espionage Act and was sentenced to time served, i.e., five years in [...]

Bent Toward Justice: A Novel Inspired By True Stories By Steven R. Feldman, Rand-Smith Books, 2024, paperback, 220 pp. MEB $20 As Israel's assault upon Palestinian civilians proceeds in Gaza, [...]

As the genocide in Gaza and the war in Ukraine continue to dominate global headlines, the Yazidi religious minority community solemnly commemorated this summer the tenth anniversary of their all-but-forgotten [...]

Pink is back in fashion this summer. While youngsters (of all ages) flocked to 'Barbie' clad in her favorite color, others sought out the pink jersey of Inter Miami's new [...]

IT SHOULD ALREADY have been evident from the scale of death and destruction inflicted on Gaza over the past weeks that Israel was implementing a policy of ethnic cleansing and [...]

The Arab Center Washington DC held a symposium in honor of slain Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Akleh at the National Press Club in Washington, DC on May 9. The event [...]

'DON'T TAKE TOO many things; we'll only be gone for two days.' So said my mother as she removed some of the things--clothes, laptop, an item or two of sentimental [...]

Foreign countries are responsible for an estimated 25 percent of all the money spent on lobbying in the U.S. In his new book, Foreign Agents: How American Lobbyists and Lawmakers [...]

THE 'OSLO ACCORDS' are a personal matter for me, and here is why. From the moment the 1967 war ended, my father--who was one of the architects and executors of [...]

Avi Shlaim's new work, Three Worlds: Memoir of an Arab few, is truly a brave book. Its message is clear: 'The Emperor Has No Clothes.' This truth was not uttered [...]

HALA KOFA is struck with 'survivor's guilt' when she sees Palestinians suffering in Israel's war on Gaza. The Kuwaiti-born poet (who now lives in Winnipeg) spent 13 years trying to [...]

THE PENTAGON'S plans for floating piers and a causeway to surge humanitarian aid into Gaza is drawing fire from military experts for its lack of detail, potential danger to U.S. [...]

Google Earth came into existence in 2005. A year later, it experienced a revolutionary tremor. A Palestinian man from Jenin, Thameen Darby, created the Nakba Layer, mapping Palestinian villages that [...]

Yes, I could have been one of those who broke through the fence had I been much younger and was still living in the concentration camp called the Gaza Strip. [...]

BY THE LATE SUMMER of 1980, Washington's political class understood that President Carter's reelection chances might well hinge on a last-minute resolution of the hostage crisis. Ex-governor Ronald Reagan and [...]

The Guardian has removed Osama bin Laden's 'Letter to the American People,' which had been on its website for more than 20 years, after it went viral on TikTok and [...]

The Israeli government is putting pressure on the left-leaning newspaper Haaretz to line up in support of the government in its conduct of the war in Gaza. The communications minister, [...]

Seeking Palestine: New Palestinian Writing on Exile and Home Edited by Penny Johnson and Raja Shehadeh, Olive Branch Press, 2023, paperback, 202 pp. MEB $17.95 Editors Penny Johnson and Raja [...]

BRITISH PARLIAMENTARIANS condemned Hamas' killing of Israeli civilians on Oct. 7 and asserted that Israel had the right to act in self-defense when it launched its attacks on the Gaza [...]

MUCH OF THE WORLD community showed both outrage over the horrendous Hamas attack on Oct. 7 and strong support for Israel during its suffering over the loss of 1,200 lives [...]

AN AIR FORCE COLONEL has said that Israeli airstrikes may have intentionally killed Israeli captives rather than let them be taken to Gaza. Speaking in Hebrew about the airstrikes, Colonel [...]

Grant F. Smith: John Kiriakou is an author, journalist, former CIA officer specializing in the Middle East. He was the first U.S. government official to confirm in December 2007 that [...]

Dale Sprusansky: We're going to welcome our final speaker here on the stage to close us out today. That will be Roger Waters. As you know, a musician with the [...]

How can cutting off humanitarian aid to desperate Palestinians as collective punishment for the alleged misdeeds of a handful of UNRWA workers not be considered a criminal abuse against humanity? [...]

To the Portland Press Herald, Jan. 21, 2024 On Jan. 11, South Africa presented its 84-page charge of genocide--perpetrated by Israel against the Palestinians of Gaza--to the United Nations' International [...]

AS PROBABLY anybody familiar enough with these topics knows, the big problem started in 1979, when the popular revolution in Iran overthrew the government of the shah, Reza Pahlavi, that [...]

When they arrive at college, U.S students newly graduated from Jewish day schools often describe being stunned by remarks critical of Israel. Public high school graduates may be somewhat better [...]

IT HAS BEEN a wild legislative couple of months in the 118th Congress as election season is underway, full of its posturing and positioning. The Republican House members were headed [...]

Nicholas Kristof's July 22 New York Times op-ed, 'With Israel, It's Time to Start Discussing the Unmentionable,' quoted several former high-ranking U.S. officials who suggested Washington ought to cut or [...]

THERE'S A LOT of stuff that feeds into what we have to say about the U.N. and the influence of the lobby. It's not just in the Middle East, it's [...]