The Free Gaza Movement
Richard Silverstein
A mission to Gaza motivated by human misery broke the Israeli siege and raised Nobel hopes for a group of dedicated activists.
2008
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The Tragedy of Ehud Olmert
Hillel Schenker : Israel
The fall of Ehud Olmert is a tragedy for Israel and the world--squandering a genuine opportunity for a breakthrough in Israeli-Palestinian and Israeli-Arab relations.
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Truth and Consequences Under the Israeli Occupation
Mohammed Omer
A Palestinian journalist's life and work shed light on the violence in Israel's "dual" society.
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A West Bank Town's Fight to Survive
Neve Gordon
The residents of the town of Ni'lin continue to fight Israel's efforts to take away their land. Is anyone listening?
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A Conversation With Richard Falk
Linda Mamoun : United Nations
One of the world's most prominent critics of US interventionism talks about his new post as UN special rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian territories.
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Palestine: Liberation Deferred
Rashid Khalidi
A just resolution of the Palestine question depends on the Palestinians themselves.
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A Somber Anniversary
Avi Shlaim
Sixty years after the founding of the State of Israel, the long conflict with the Palestinians, and with the Arab world at large, casts a pall over Israeli life.
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Motzira-Making on the Right
Eric Alterman : Higher Education
The politics of tenure at Barnard and beyond.
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Tough Love for Israel
Henry Siegman
Another Middle East peace conference? Statesmen instead should have the moral and political courage to end the massive hoax the peace process has become.
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Lives on the Ground
Adina Hoffman : Autobiography & Memoir
New memoirs from Israel and Palestine offer the chance not to escape the political conflict but to grasp the way it impacts daily life.
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Justified Violence: Breaking the Gaza Wall
Allan Nairn : Occupation & Occupied Territories
The breaking of the Gaza-Egypt wall is clearly a good thing, and a rare example of the moral--and also wise--use of violence in politics.
2007
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Post-Annapolis Pitfalls
Henry Siegman : US Foreign Policy
Washington must abandon the fantasy that an Israeli-Palestinian agreement can be reached in the face of deep divisions between Fatah and Hamas, which the United States and Israel have fostered.
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Israel's Palestinians Speak Out
Israel's indigenous Palestinian population rejects the efforts of Israel and the United States to seal our fate as a permanent underclass in our own homeland.
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Spectacle at Annapolis
A lame-duck President's halfhearted diplomacy yields much hypocrisy and few results. But at least the leaders will keep talking.
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The Optimist
To those who follow the Israeli-Palestinian conflict closely, the prospects for a two-state solution have never seemed dimmer. So why does veteran peacenik Uri Avnery remain so hopeful?
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Carter Speaks His Mind
A conversation with the former President on Jonathan Demme's new film, Jimmy Carter Man From Plains, and the difficulty of talking about Israel and Palestine.
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Justice Delayed
The government's case against Khader Hamide and Michel Shehadeh is closed. But did the US government learn anything about its wayward two-decade prosecution of Palestinian activists?
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Facing Hamas and Hezbollah
Helena Cobban : US Foreign Policy
US diplomacy in the Middle East has been held hostage by a refusal to engage with these two popular movements.
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Lobbying Degree Zero
Moral mudslinging has stifled debate over the Israel lobby.
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Vertical Disintegration
A new take on Israel/Palestine: Could Israel's architecture be the solution to the insoluble disputes?
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Eyeless in Gaza
The disaster in Gaza has many fathers, but its most direct cause was the Bush Administration's cynical manipulation of democracy promotion.
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Hamas Holds the High Cards
It's too late for the corrupt remnants of the PLO to make any credible claim of leadership, even if the US, Israel and EU throw aid dollars their way.
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Israel's Choice
It's time for a democratically governed Israel to grant liberal civil rights to its Arab minority.
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The State of Zionism
Tracing the course of Zionism and the splintered state it has created.
This week, what it all meant. Nation Editor Katrina vanden Heuvel on Barack Obama's victory and the coming battle for progressive change we can believe in. (13mb mp3)
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