Israel’s Bloody Negotiations Strategy in Gaza

Jamal Kanj

September 13, 2024

Fifty-two years ago, almost to the day, on September 8, 1972, I survived the first of many Israeli air and sea raids on my refugee camp in northern Lebanon. I was less than two hundred yards from the area across the river where a group of us young kids met every day, between 4 and 5 p.m., to play in the large field, swim in the river or in the Mediterranean Sea.

Russian missiles will soon strike US and UK targets, if Starmer gets his way

Ian Proud

September 13, 2024

The first confirmed use of ATACMS, Storm Shadow or Scalp inside of Russia would provoke a Russian military strike against a western military target. We should step back from this new missile crisis and push for a negotiated ceasefire.

 

Woman, Life, Freedom: Rachel, Shireen, Mahsa and Ayşenur

Fariba Amini

September 13, 2024

Newark, Del. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – A few days before the invasion of Iraq by American forces under G.W.  Bush, on March 16, 2003, a young woman from Seattle, Washington, who had gone to Rafah, in Gaza to help Palestinians halt the demolition of homes died under the bulldozer of the Israeli army. 

Her name was Rachel Corrie.