By Bill Noxid It’s Time for Americans to stop making false proclamations about this Country that only demonstrate their ignorance and unwillingness to face what happened yesterday, much less the historical truth of the United States.  Since the brief shift of direction toward exposing truth during the end of the Bush era and 2008 Presidential [...]

By Anwaar Hussain Way up on the shadowy ladder in the dark world of spooks comes the name of Mossad. Responsible mainly for intelligence collection and covert operations, including paramilitary activities, it is one of the three institutions in the Israeli Intelligence Community. The other two are known as Aman and Shin Bet  tasked for [...]

By Rowan Wolf I come from a varied background which has taken me on a winding a somewhat tortuous trail throughout my life. There are a series of threads that tie me to Judaism and hence Israel, and to the Palestinians. I come from what is sometimes referred to as “humble” beginnings. In my case [...]

By Daniel Luban The U.S. State Department fiercely denied claims made by Ehud Olmert about his influence over President George W. Bush, in an incident that has stirred up old debates about the role of the Israeli government and the so-called “Israel lobby” in formulating Middle East policy in Washington. On Monday, Olmert claimed that [...]

The Hippasus Blog The Gaza Strip  sits inside a tiny box some 25 miles long and, for the most part, less than five miles wide. At its widest it is well under eight miles wide. It is bounded to the west by the Mediterranean’s most miserable beaches. To the south-west is a seven-mile border with [...]

Chicago circle nurtured him all the way to the top By Tom Hundley   Writer Toni Morrison famously dubbed Bill Clinton “the first black president”-a title he fervently embraced. Abner Mikva, the Chicago Democratic Party stalwart and former Clinton White House counsel, offers a variation on that theme. “If Clinton was our first black president, [...]

Post-feminist backlash – or new dawn for equal rights? By Rachel Cooke   Sometimes, you can’t see the wood for the trees. When I tell Georgina Baillie, the young woman at the centre of the scandal now known predictably as ‘Sachsgate’, that I think what happened to her was the result of good old-fashioned misogyny, [...]