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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 [...]

Israel apparently considers toilet paper, laundry detergent, dish soap and shoes threats to its security--why else would it add these mundane and harmless items to a laundry fist of basic [...]

Arthur Sulzberger, Jr., the fourth generation of his family to publish The New York Times, and Howell Raines, its lead editorialist, condemn their predecessors' brainless pontificating. Indeed, their paper is [...]

On Aug. 4, the Saudi Arabian newspaper Al-Riyadh asked for Saddam Hussain to be tried for war crimes against his own people. 'The massacres and atrocities that Saddam and his [...]

Yousef Munayyer, executive director of the Palestine Center, invited three panelists to discuss the Palestine Papers--the leaked documents concerning Israeli-Palestinian negotiations which have caused an uproar across the Arab world--in [...]

Secret South African documents reveal that Israel offered to sell nuclear warheads to the apartheid regime, providing the first official documentary evidence of the state's possession of nuclear weapons. The [...]

The European press voiced criticism of Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadine-jad and Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei following the country's disputed June 12 election in which the two leading presidential candidates, [...]

On May 20 I set fire to my Israeli military deferral papers across the street from the Israeli Embassy in Washington, DC. This act of civil disobedience took place during [...]

The Aug. 28 election of Abdullah Gul as Turkey's new president--the first politician with an Islamist background to become head of state since the creation of the secular Turkish Republic [...]

The Policy Studies Organization (PSO) and the Digest of Middle East Studies (DOMES) have issued a Call for Papers for their 2015 Middle East Dialogue: The Middle East: Glorious Past, [...]

The decision by an Alexandria, Virginia court on May 4 not to execute al-Qaeda plotter Zacharias Moussaoui for his role in the 9/11 attacks was widely welcomed by the European [...]

Following four decades of negotiations, Turkey officially began membership talks with the European Union on Oct. 4, after Austria dropped a demand that Ankara be offered an option short of [...]

On Jan. 28 Lord Hutton published the results of his inquiry into the death of British weapons expert David Kelly, who the BBC reported as questioning Britain's case for war [...]

The Palestine Papers: The End of the Road?, by Clayton E. Swisher, Hesperus Press, 2011, paperback, 320 pp. List: $21.95; AET: $15. An authoritative account of the confidential papers released [...]

To The Dallas Morning News, Dec. 4, 2010 Re: 'What Do We Need to Know? Wiki-Leaks risks causing more harm than good.' When the secret Pentagon Papers were published, similar [...]

If you beat a man to enforce a view, and he objects, and you continue to beat him until he is silent--it does not mean he then agrees with you. [...]

The United States Institute of Peace is accepting applications for its Solicited Grant program, in which the Institute designates specific topics or themes related to its mission. This year's topics [...]

Global Exchange will send fact-finding delegations to Palestine and Israel April 18-29 and Aug. 15-26. Participants experience the frustration of being stuck behind checkpoints and closures, speak to Palestinians who [...]

Hafez al-Jamali, a veteran ideologue of Syria's Ba'ath Party, died Nov. 10, at the age of 87. Born in 1916 in the Syrian interior city of Homs, Jamali studied philosophy [...]

The Washington, DC Chapter of the Palestine Children's Relief Fund has issued an urgent need for wheelchairs to be sent to Palestinian refugees in south Lebanon. Through a special partnership [...]

The Middle-East Crisis Committee ; Wesleyan Students for a Free Palestine; and PRRC/Al-Awda Connecticut invite interested individuals to Activism 102: A Day of Skills Workshops for Middle East activists on [...]

As part of the Smithsonian's Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Iranian film festival, 'Marooned in Iraq' will be screened Jan. 25 at 2 p.m.; 'Letters in [...]

The Middle East Center at the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington (Seattle) invites presentation proposals for its 2004 regional seminar on the Middle East. The [...]

According to an Aug. 5 press release from the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), the Syrian government on July 31 closed the privately owned satirical weekly Al-Domari. The official explanation [...]

When Canadian newspaper columnist Doug Cuthand wrote a column that compared the plight of the Palestinians to that of North American Indians, he knew he might provoke some debate. 'I [...]

'The media here is uniform in its coverage of what's going on [in the Middle East] and it's even more anti-Palestinian and racist than the Israeli press,' said an Israeli [...]

THANK YOU TO THE Washington Report and the Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy for inviting me today to share the new policy paper, 'Breaking the Israel Palestine Status Quo.' [...]

The now-ousted Spanish government immediately blamed the March 11, 2004 explosions in Madrid, Spain, which killed at least 200 people and injured many more, on the Basque separatist group ETA. However, the European press, as well as many ordinary people, questioned whether they instead were al-Qaeda's response to Spain's support for the United States in Iraq. Five British terrorist suspects held by U.S. authorities in Cuba's Guantanamo Bay for two years arrived back in Great Britain March 9, 2004 after having been released without charge. Their detention, wrote Great Britain's newspaper "Guardian" the following day, had been long, shameful and lawless, and they were never given either prisoner of war or criminal suspect status. Home Secretary David Blunkett, the paper continued, quoted the Lord chief justice Lord Woolf's call that in "defending democracy, we must not forget the need to observe the values which make democracy worth defending." The paper concluded: "It is good to have heard these calls. It would have been even better if they had been heard and acted on much earlier in the Guantanamo Bay debacle."

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 [...]

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.

Several letters to the editor are presented in response to articles published in various papers including one on the resolution supporting Israel's attack on Gaza, one on the U.S. foreign policy with respect to the shooting down of the Malaysia airliner and another on the Israeli bombing in Gaza.

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 [...]

Washington, DC's Middle East Institute hosted a Jan. 13 panel discussion launching MEI nonresident fellow Jason Pack's paper 'An International Financial Commission is Libya's Last Hope.' Pack proposed that an [...]

The article focuses on two developments which have caused the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) to be the object of unwanted attention. One is the espionage case in which former AIPAC officials Steven J. Rosen and Keith Weissman have been charged with violating the 1917 Espionage Act by receiving and transmitting national defense information. Intensifying the spotlight on AIPAC's activities has been the paper written by professors John Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago and Stephen Walt of the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. The article, entitled "The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy," asserts that Washington's unwavering support of Israel has jeopardized American security.

The Institute for Research: Middle East Policy (IRmep) held a Capitol Hill Forum on November 26, at the Rayburn House Congressional Office Building to discuss the likelihood that former American advisers to Israel have turned their 1996 policy plan for the Jewish state into today's U.S. policy used to invade Iraq and bully the rest of the Middle East. Among the paper's recommendations were toppling the government of Iraq, rolling back Syria and Iran, and electrifying support for Israel in the U.S. Congress in exchange for new missile defense contract opportunities. Saying he found it stunning that the same leaders now writing and shaping the U.S. policy have a history of looking out for Israel's interests, Farha noted that the decision to strike Iraq had been made even before 9/11, in accordance with the, Clean Break, plan.

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 [...]

To the International Herald Tribune, Oct. 23, 2007 Dore Gold's criticism of the Stephen Walt and John Mearsheimer paper on U.S.-Israeli ties fails to address the paper's main premise: In [...]

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.' [...]

The article announces the online availability of all Voice of America programming and the call for papers for the 2015 Middle East Dialogue: The Middle East: Glorious Past, Uncertain Future.

Washington, DC's Middle East Institute (MEI) hosted an April 7 virtual roundtable on the recently published Chatham House research paper, 'Community Dynamics and Economic Interests of Libyan Armed Groups.' While [...]

Washington, DC's Middle East Institute hosted an Oct. 4 program on Nathan Stock's recently released paper 'There is No 'Status Quo': Drivers of Violence in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict.' Stock, an [...]

The article reports on the discussion co-hosted by the Middle East Institute (MEI) and the Center for Transatlantic Relations at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in Washington DC on August 14, 2012. SAIS professor Daniel Serwer was the moderator of the event to discuss the MEI document titled "Prospects for U.S.-Iran Relations on the Nuclear Issue in the Year Ahead." The comment of MEI scholar Allen Keiswetter on the paper is also cited.

Perhaps the presence of so many lawyers in government has made inevitable the tendency for the United States to attempt to justify a war on paper even before a single [...]

Volunteers from the American Community School (ACS) in Beirut engage six or seven kindergarten students in fun exercises like cutting out different objects from paper and coloring in designs. The [...]

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. [...]