by Bernard Weiner, The Crisis Papers
Take a large dose of hubris, combine it with Lord Acton’s famous dictum (“power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely”), and you emerge with an explosive, reckless abuse of authority on a number of fronts.

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by Uri Avnery
On the high seas, outside territorial waters, the ship was stopped by the navy. The commandos stormed it. Hundreds of people on the deck resisted, the soldiers used force. Some of the passengers were killed, scores injured. The ship was brought into harbor, the passengers were taken off by force. The world saw [...]

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by Bernard Schaer
Really? Selfdefense? As I watched the various videos currently available in the news and on the Internet, I was getting the distinct impression that Israeli soldiers – not unlike Somalian pirates – tried to enter and overtake a ship under foreign flag in International waters.
I remember the mainstream media about a [...]

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by Dave McGill
An international incident has once again directed a spotlight on the seemingly mysterious fact that few, if any, American politicians speak out against the policies of Israel. After all, it would be difficult, if not impossible, to find any other issue in all of America that generates such a near unanimous political viewpoint?

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by Bernard Weiner, The Crisis Papers
I had a fascinating email conversation over the weekend on the Middle East conflict, and it seems worthy of reproducing here. Not just because of the issues raised but because they encapsulate the difficulty of even agreeing on what the central questions are.

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