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Wars and Conflicts Articles

Article:	Saving Israel From Itself	View Article
Published:	5/18/2009	View Comments (0)
Submitted by:	Picka 269 days ago	Add Comment
Category:	Israel vs Palestinians

Article Details: The United States and Israel fundamentally disagree about the need to establish a Palestinian state living side by side with Israel. President Obama is committed to a two-state solution, while Israel’s Prime Minister Netanyahu is opposed. This is not a fight Obama is likely to win, even though most Americans favor creating a Palestinian state and bringing the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to a close. The Israel Lobby will ensure that Obama's two-state solution is scuttled.

Article:	Obama seems unlikely to widen war in Afghanistan	View Article
Published:	1/31/2009	View Comments (0)
Submitted by:	Picka 1 yr 357 days ago	Add Comment
Categories:	Wars and Conflicts & 2001 Afghanistan War

Article Details: President Barack Obama, who pledged during his campaign to shift U.S. troops and resources from Iraq to Afghanistan, has done little since taking office to suggest he will significantly widen the grinding war against a resurgent Taliban. On the contrary, Obama appears likely to streamline the U.S. focus with an eye to the worsening economy and the cautionary example of the Iraq war that sapped political support for President George W. Bush.

Article:	Punishing the Palestinians by Ralph Nader	View Article
Published:	1/17/2009 by Common Dreams	View Comments (0)
Submitted by:	Picka 1 yr 344 days ago	Add Comment
Categories:	Wars and Conflicts & Israel vs Palestinians

Article Details: In the long sixty-year tortured history of the Palestinian expulsion from their lands, Congress has maintained that it is always the Palestinians, the Palestinian Authority, and now Hamas who are to blame for all hostilities and their consequences with the Israeli government. The latest illustration of this Washington puppet show, backed by the most modern weapons and billions of taxpayer dollars annually sent to Israel, was the grotesquely one-sided Resolutions whisked through Congress.

Article:	UN levels war crimes warning at Israel	View Article
Published:	1/9/2009 by The Guardian	View Comments (1)
Submitted by:	Picka 1 yr 335 days ago	Add Comment
Categories:	Wars and Conflicts & Israel vs Palestinians

Article Details: Killing of 30 people in Gaza when army shelled house full of evacuees 'has all hallmarks of war crime', says high commissioner for human rights. According to testimonies gathered by the UN, Israeli soldiers evacuated about 110 Palestinians to a single-storey house in Zeitoun. The evacuees were instructed to stay indoors for their safety but 24 hours later the Israeli army shelled the house. About half the Palestinians sheltering in the house were children.

Article:	What Kind of Security Will This Barbarism Bring Israel?	View Article
Published:	1/7/2009 by CounterPunch	View Comments (1)
Submitted by:	Picka 1 yr 333 days ago	Add Comment
Categories:	Wars and Conflicts & Israel vs Palestinians

Article Details: Israel’s disregard for innocent human life is not motivated only by a desire to forestall the political consequences of Israeli military casualties. It is also a clear indicator of the contempt that Israel has for Palestinian life in general. The cold, hungry, tired, desperate, and terrified men, women and children that Israel is now sweeping away by the dozen in balls of fire and showers of shrapnel are the very same people that it had already reduced to a "subhuman existence"

Article:	Democrats Are Cowards in the Face of Israel's Brutality	View Article
Published:	1/6/2009 by Alternet	View Comments (0)
Submitted by:	Picka 1 yr 332 days ago	Add Comment
Categories:	Wars and Conflicts & Israel vs Palestinians

Article Details: The Democratic leadership's strident support for the ongoing Israeli assault on the Gaza Strip underscores how the Democrats suffer from the same illusions as the outgoing Republican administration: that placing an Arab territory under debilitating sanctions that punish the population as a whole, bombarding heavily populated civilian areas -- and invading and occupying territories will somehow lead to greater moderation from those afflicted.

Article:	Who are the Taliban? - The Afghan war deciphered	View Article
Published:	12/4/2008 by TomDispatch.com	View Comments (1)
Submitted by:	Picka 1 yr 301 days ago	Add Comment
Categories:	Wars and Conflicts & Military and Defense

Article Details: Who exactly are the Afghan insurgents? Every suicide attack and kidnapping is usually attributed to "the Taliban." In reality, however, the insurgency is far from monolithic. There are the shadowy, kohl-eyed mullahs, head-bobbing religious students, erudite university students, poor, illiterate farmers, and veteran anti-Soviet commanders. The movement is a mélange of nationalists, Islamists, and bandits that fall uneasily into three or four main factions of competing commanders.

Article:	Obama urges Germans to work with US to stop terror	View Article
Published:	7/24/2008 by AP	View Comments (0)
Submitted by:	Shayon 1 yr 166 days ago	Add Comment
Category:	Wars and Conflicts

Article Details: Before the largest crowd of his campaign, Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama on Thursday summoned Europeans and Americans together to "defeat terror and dry up the well of extremism that supports it" as surely as they conquered communism a generation ago.

Article:	Sudan Gets New Darfur Crisis Mediator	View Article
Published:	7/21/2008 by VOA News	View Comments (0)
Submitted by:	Shayon 1 yr 164 days ago	Add Comment
Category:	Darfur

Article Details: Some Sudanese are reportedly expressing optimism after the new chief mediator visited the country yesterday with a new mission to finding a solution to the Darfur crisis. Djibril Bassole, who is Burkina Faso’s foreign minister, is expected to begin what some are describing as a Herculean task of reigniting the stalled peace talks and ensuring a cessation of hostilities between the rebels and Khartoum.

Article:	Obama Hits McCain on Iraq Comments & Tax Cuts	View Article
Published:	6/12/2008 by ABC News	View Comments (0)
Submitted by:	JasonK 1 yr 125 days ago	Add Comment
Categories:	2003 Iraq War & Taxes

Article Details: ABC News' Sunlen Miller Reports: Senator Obama continued to draw clear contrasts with Senator McCain at a town hall in Kaukauna, Wisconsin over tax policy and the war in Iraq.