Middle East

Turn away from death and destruction

July 23, 2014 By PW Editorial

Our government bears a heavy responsibility for all these horrors; it's time to push for peace and for a humane foreign policy that puts people before profits.

Israeli government lied, manipulated teens’ deaths, to wreck Palestinian unity

July 14, 2014 By Susan Webb

"Everybody knows now that Netanyahu and his co-bullies were aware the three young settlers were murdered on the first day they were kidnapped."

Palestinians and Israelis mourn together but crisis deepens

July 9, 2014 By Susan Webb

Hundreds of Israeli Jews visited the mourning family of Muhammad Abu Khdeir in Jerusalem on Tuesday to express condolences over the vicious killing of the Palestinian teenager last week.

How imperial “Great Loot” shaped Middle East tragedies

July 2, 2014 By Conn Hallinan

As Iraq tumbles into another war, it's important to remember why adding yet more warfare to the current crisis will perpetuate exactly what the "Great Loot" set out to do.

“Daylight” appears on Israel-Palestine conflict

June 10, 2014 By Eric A. Gordon

J Street, the six-year-old "pro-Israel, pro-peace" liberal Jewish organization, with some 180,000 members and supporters, met in San Francisco June 7-8 in its first national summit on the West Coast.