Israeli government public relations encountered a significant challenge today when the IDF killed dozens of children in the same location that they killed more than a hundred civilians a decade ago.  The fact that both attacks occurred in Qana, Lebanon is the...
Joshua Frank responds to Ran HaCohen's thoughts on the Hezbollah capture of two Israeli soldiers: First I should say thanks to Ran HaCohen and Antiwar.com for posting a response to my piece, "Kidnapped in Israel or Captured in Lebanon," which attempted to raise the...
At 7:30 p.m. ET on C-SPAN, Antiwar.com contributor Leon Hadar talks about his book, Sandstorm, at the Cato Institute in Washington, D.C. James Pinkerton (Newsday, Fox News) and Geoffrey Kemp (Nixon Center) provide commentary. During the Q&A portion of the event, the...
Satire Alert! If I ran this as a regular story, I would get in so much trouble. Andy Borowitz on the latest military scheme for Iraq. One of the best parts is the quote from General Schoomaker, which is partially accurate.
Joshua Frank did an important job in bringing two competing stories about the Israeli soldiers kidnapped by Hizbollah: the main-stream story which says they were abducted on the Israeli side of the border, and the alternative claim that the soldiers were captured by...
Comparing the capture of two Israeli soldiers by Hezbollah guerrillas to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Charles Krauthammer weighs in on the Israeli reponse: "Disproportionate? No. When one is wantonly attacked by an aggressor, one has every right -- legal and...
Tension between the U.S. and Israel, always bubbling just beneath the surface, is popping up all over the place, in spite of George W. Bush's confusion about which country he's really chief executive of. Condoleezaa Rice's trip to Rome, where she argued for a...
An alert reader (thanks Davey!) pointed out to us another Ed Peck sighting at Democracy Now. Swoooon! It seems that Nasrallah is willing to chit chat with Americans after all.
The Washington Post today details how the Bush administration is desperately scrambling to get Congress to pass a law to retroactively legalize torture. OK, this is not exactly what the Post said — they would not be so ill-mannered towards the government. But the...
I stumbled across former Ambassador Ed Peck on Fox News' "Dayside" in the middle of his appearance today. It was unfortunate because the couple of minutes I watched were hilarious. Mike Jerrick seemed absolutely livid he had to listen to Peck and was openly rude to...
