The Promise of a Courageous Al-Jazeera America May Be Fading

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig May 22, 2013 Is the desire to enter the U.S. television news market corrupting Al-Jazeera English's journalistic integrity? The network's silent retraction from its website of a controversial article criticizing Israel suggests it is, Glenn Greenwald writes at The Guardian. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Why Paul Krugman Avoids Thinking About Israel

Staff / Truthdig Apr 25, 2012 The New York Times columnist is paid for his opinions, but he says, "like many liberal American Jews I basically avoid thinking about where Israel is going" And where it's going, writes Krugman, is "national suicide". Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Ahmadinejad’s U.N. Speech Prompts Another Delegate Walkout

Staff / Truthdig Sep 23, 2011 Delegates from the United States and Europe walked out of the United Nations General Assembly on Thursday afternoon in the middle of a speech by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad when he began expressing anti-Israeli sentiment. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Israeli Spring

Paresh Nath, Cagle Cartoons, The Khaleej Times, UAE Sep 5, 2011 Dig deeper

Arab Spring Monster

Yaakov Kirschen, Cagle Cartoons, Dry Bones Aug 29, 2011 Dig deeper

Israel’s Insatiable Zionism

Staff / Truthdig Aug 21, 2011 Israel's Zionism turned capitalism is getting out of hand; Postmodernism is dead, leaving many to question what it was in the first place; meanwhile, the Americas are projected to replace the Middle East as the energy capital of the world. These discoveries and more after the jump. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Glenn Beck Wants to ‘Restore Courage’ in Israel

Staff / Truthdig May 17, 2011 A day after Israel clashed with protesters along four borders, professional fearmonger Glenn Beck announced his attempt to bring thousands of supporters to his "Rally to Restore Courage" in Jerusalem this August, urging his conservative base to get more involved in the region's politics. (more) Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Iran Casts Suspicions After Bomb Attacks

Staff / Truthdig Nov 30, 2010 On Monday, after two Iranian nuclear scientists were targeted in apparently coordinated bombings, killing one scientist and wounding another, Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad pointed to the West and to Israel to place blame for the attacks. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Ahmadinejad Holds Rally at Lebanon-Israel Border

Staff / Truthdig Oct 14, 2010 Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad made quite a provocative gesture by staging a pro-Hezbollah rally at a Lebanese border town near Israel on Thursday -- a scene that was not lost on the Israeli military. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Israel’s Lieberman Proposes Redrawing Borders

Staff / Truthdig Sep 19, 2010 Israels notoriously racist foreign minister, Avigdor Lieberman, has proposed that any future peace deal with the Palestinians should focus on a redrawing of his country's borders, excluding much of Israel's Arab citizenry while including illegal Jewish settlements in occupied Palestinian lands. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Netanyahu: The U.S. Is ‘Easy’

Staff / Truthdig Jul 18, 2010 The US is easy -- or so says Benjamin Netanyahu The Israeli prime minister was recorded in 2001, apparently without his knowledge, claiming that the U was "easy" to manipulate and that Israel should launch a broad attack against the Palestinian Authority that would be "so painful that the price will be too heavy to be borne". Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Zionism Gets a Turbo Boost

Staff / Truthdig Apr 25, 2010 Some Israeli settlers are taking Zionism to a whole new level. Some 200 settlers, living illegally on occupied Palestinian land, marched on the Palestinian neighborhood of Silwan in East Jerusalem to assert their supposed right to live on occupied land as well as to affirm "Jewish sovereignty over the whole city." Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )