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Nathan Schneider 6-21-2010
The New York Times reports, "Under intense international pressure after its commandos killed nine activists aboard an http://blog.sojo.net/2010/06/02/another-cost-of-the-flotilla-
Jim Rice 6-11-2010
Sometimes it feels like there's hardly enough outrage to go around. I started this post to condemn the recent, well, outrageous, words of Helen Thomas.
Valerie Elverton Dixon 6-04-2010
There are times when there are no words. There are times when it seems that there is no hope for humankind, that our blindness to the things that make for peace is willful.
Jim Rice 6-02-2010
Along with shooting nine peace activists during their attack on the peace flotilla this week, Israeli commandos may have shot themselves in the foot
Gary M. Burge 4-26-2010
Bethlehem, West Bank. Evangelicals have never been keen on political protests. Especially the sort that includes rifles and grenades -- in the hands of your opponents.
Isaac Luria 4-16-2010
It's the age-old question. Who can claim to speak for American Jews on Israel?
World Jewish Congress president Ron Lauder seems to think he's found the answer. It's him.
Ryan Rodrick Beiler 4-14-2010
Last weekend I was at a family reunion where I had been invited to show pictures from my sabbatical in the Middle East last spring.
4-13-2010
The taboo was finally broken and the genie is out of the bottle, despite some attempts to force it back.
Ryan Rodrick Beiler 4-09-2010
Several sources have recommended this commentary by M.J. Rosenberg at Media Matters as a helpful analysis of the new "Obama Peace Plan" for the Middle East.
Arthur Waskow 4-08-2010
The end of Passover is said to mark the anniversary of the moment when Pharaoh's imperial horse-chariot army met disaster in the Red Sea.
Rose Marie Berger 3-30-2010
Protesters crossed the main gate in the separation wall between Bethlehem and Jerusalem on Palm Sunday 2010.
Roi Ben-Yehuda 3-29-2010
In preparing a Passover seder in which many of my guests are first-timers and non-Jews, I am challenged by a number of factors: There is the barrier of language -- some of the texts that we read ar
Ryan Rodrick Beiler 2-23-2010
National Catholic Reporter has an important article about the Kairos Palestine Document endorsed last month by the leaders of 13 Chr