Death toll: 1,300 Palestinian dead of whom over 500 are women and children; 50-60% civilian. 13...
Richard Silverstein
Silverstein is an independent journalist and has published Tikun Olam since 2003. It exposes the secrets of the Israeli national security state. He publishes regularly at the New Arab, and Jacobin Magazine. His work has also appeared in Al Jazeera English, The Nation, Truthout and other outlets.
Actually that’s a little harsh. The Gaza ceasefire Israel just declared will last beyond January 20th. Maybe...
If this doesn’t take the cake for one of the strangest ceasefires ever negotiated I don’t know...
The horror! Oh, the horror! Lord, how long can this madness continue?? It has sunk to a...
As they would say in Israel: Day lanu kvar! (“Enough already”). American Jews have had enough of...
We all need a good laugh right about now, don’t we? Well then, do yourself the favor...
Killing Said Siam, interior minister in the Hamas government?? Have they entirely lost their minds? Do they...
Jerry Haber and I, along with Verso Books, the publishers of A Time to Speak Out, have...
Today brings words of two moving developments in the rising opposition to the war in Gaza among...
The madness continues. Ehud Olmert and his generals have made the ultimate decision to enter Gaza City,...
Haaretz runs two stories reporting on the shape of a potential ceasefire proposal, but with markedly different...
The title of this post came to me as I was trying to assimilate Jeffrey Goldberg’s typically...
