The war last summer between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip left more than 2,100 Palestinians dead and reduced vast areas to rubble. On Monday, a group of Israeli veterans released sobering testimony from fellow soldiers that suggests permissive rules of engagement coupled with indiscriminate artillery fire contributed to...

Underlying [Netanyahu's] leadership is a systemic and society-wide problem of increasing support among Israelis for anti-democratic policies, including second-class citizenship for Palestinian citizens of Israel and complete control of the approximately 4.5 million Palestinians who live in the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem, who do not have any input...

Almost all the current wars, uprisings, and other conflicts in the Middle East are connected by a single thread, an increasingly frenzied competition to find, extract, and market fossil fuels whose future consumption is guaranteed to lead to a set of cataclysmic environmental crises.

Gaza is not a natural disaster. It is man-made, the result of deliberate political choices. Different choices must now be made.

The self-declared international community has once again footed the reconstruction bill as it arms Israel with the weaponry and ensures it the impunity that only rewards its brutal onslaught on Gaza and essentially guarantees its repetition.

For those concerned with the rights of the brutalized Palestinians, there can be no higher priority than working to change U.S. policies, not an idle dream by any means.

For those concerned with the rights of the brutalized Palestinians, there can be no higher priority than working to change U.S. policies, not an idle dream by any means.

The good thing about peace is that it need not be a zero sum game. Both sides can gain from it.

Pummeling Gaza is a sick form of 'product demonstration' for Israel on a civilian population.

Sometimes the most effective protest is simple solidarity. All proceeds will be donated to Palestine Children's Relief Fund. August 14 in Palo Alto.