Juan Cole

The United Nations has now called for a ceasefire in the Israeli war on Gaza, which is probably a sign that it will wind down not so long from now. Despite assurances given by outgoing US Secretary of State Condi Rice to her colleagues that the US would sign off on the resolution, in the […]

I don’t think it is going to be easy to stop Gazans from making rockets if they want to. /End

I don’t think it is going to be easy to stop Gazans from making rockets if they want to. /End

The UN is halting its relief works in Gaza, after an Israeli tank fired on a UN truck, killing the driver: ‘ “The IDF knows all of our movements, and coordinates. Despite that we are still coming under attack,” says Chris Gunness, a spokesman for the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA). “Until the [Israeli […]

The UN is halting its relief works in Gaza, after an Israeli tank fired on a UN truck, killing the driver: ‘ “The IDF knows all of our movements, and coordinates. Despite that we are still coming under attack,” says Chris Gunness, a spokesman for the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA). “Until the [Israeli […]

Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) argues that Israel cannot claim self-defense when fighting a weak enemy with no air force, navy or army. If Israel is not engaged in self-defense then it is engaged in an offensive. And Kucinich points out that the US gave Israel all those weapons only on condition that they not be […]

Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) argues that Israel cannot claim self-defense when fighting a weak enemy with no air force, navy or army. If Israel is not engaged in self-defense then it is engaged in an offensive. And Kucinich points out that the US gave Israel all those weapons only on condition that they not be […]

Michael J. Totten has surged way ahead in the voting online for the best Middle East weblog. The way he has done this is very instructive and tells us something about how the Neoconservatives always run rings around the American left and leave them with nothing to do but complain about Neoconservative power. First, Totten […]

Iraqi cleric Muqtada al-Sadr called on Iraqis to kill US troops in Iraq in revenge for the Israeli assault on the people of Gaza. “I call upon the honest Iraqi resistance to carry out revenge operations against the great accomplice of the Zionist enemy,” Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki from Baghdad attacked the international community for […]