By Ali Gharib With the ceasefire in Gaza holding, despite some early hiccups, Israeli and American officials are spinning the brief war by porting its lessons over to a potential conflict with Iran. The comparison was made most poignantly in a New York Times article on Friday where officials from Israel and the U.S. described the recent fighting as "something of a practice run for any future armed confronta ...

By ŞAHİN ALPAY I wrote last week that the recent Israeli aggression against Gaza is a test for US President Barack Obama as to whether he will keep his word from 2009 and work towards a two-state solution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict now that he has been re-elected. A cease-fire was reached once more, after scores of Palestinians were killed and Gaza was once more ravaged, but there is no indication ...

By Adam Shatz The ceasefire agreed by Israel and Hamas in Cairo after eight days of fighting is merely a pause in the Israel-Palestine conflict. It promises to ease movement at all border crossings with the Gaza Strip, but will not lift the blockade. It requires Israel to end its assault on the Strip, and Palestinian militants to stop firing rockets at southern Israel, but it leaves Gaza as miserable as eve ...

By Dr Zafar Nawaz Jaspal Since last week, Israeli air-force has been unleashed to carry out genocide of the innocent Palestinians residing in Gaza. The international community seems unmoved over these inhuman air raids of Tel Aviv. The Western advocators of the United Nations’ ‘responsibility to protect’ the human beings from the genocide policies of the aggressive regime, presently, are acting indifferent ...

There is a crisis in almost every aspect of life in Gaza, and Palestinians will never have decent living conditions unless the blockade is lifted, Chris Gunness, a spokesman for the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees, told RT. ­RT: Your agency has hit back at Israeli allegations that it allows its facilities in the Gaza Strip to be used by Hamas to launch rockets towards Israel. Have your sch ...

By Susanne Posel Communist-in-Chief and Zionist-controlled, President Barack Obama says that he is “fully supportive of Israel’s right to defend itself from missiles landing on people’s homes and workplaces and potentially killing civilians, and we will continue to support Israel’s right to defend itself.” This announcement came as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu began to expand Israel’s “military ...

Posted By Zaheerul Hassan Israel's army said that three Israeli soldiers were wounded Tuesday morning when an explosive device planted by the border fence in the southern Gaza Strip close to the town of Khan Younis detonated near their vehicle. One soldier suffered a moderate limb injury and was evacuated by helicopter to the Soroka Medical Center in Beersheba. Two other were lightly wounded in the blast an ...