Scott Horton’s incredible interview with Investigative Journalist Seymour Hersh. “Iran and the Bomb: How real is the nuclear threat;” Obama’s acute isolation within the White House echo chamber; and some sane advice from retired ambassador Thomas Pickering: stop hectoring Iran about a non-existent nuclear weapons program and negotiate like grown-ups.

The number of Israelis thinking of leaving Palestine is climbing rapidly according to researchers, while many more, with actual millennial roots but victims of ethnic cleansing, prepare to exercise their right of Return.
by Franklin Lamb

U.N. Security Council Resolution 242 of Nov. 22, 1967, concluded the war of that year and has been widely acknowledged by all parties to be the basis for a peace agreement.
It was not a new U.S. policy concerning the borders of Israel, nor should it have been surprising to Israeli leaders. by James Carter

Mubarak knew of ‘every bullet fired’, says former spy chief.
Mubarak will face trial with his two sons, who are in a Cairo prison. The date and location has not yet been decided. An official inquiry found that at least 846 people were killed during the revolt that ousted Mubarak on February 11, many of them from gunshot wounds.

After 44 years of occupation, every day is Nakba Day for Palestinians, what political posturing won’t change, especially because Washington and Israel won’t tolerate it by Stephen Lendman / My Catbird Seat   Perhaps one way to view Obama’s speech is saying you can please all the people some of the time, some of them [...]

US policy in the Middle East was, is and will remain driven by the powerful American Jewish leadership and community and it does not change with who resides in the White House. by Sami Jamil Jadallah / Veterans Today The Arabs and specially the Palestinians should not hold their breath in anticipations of the scheduled [...]

ED NOTE: Well, it is beginning to look more credible that Osama was being sheltered and provided for by someone in the Pakistan government,  or even the CIA, with or without Pakistan official sanction or not… and that he was there that night. Troubling questions are bound to arise whenever something happens which disproves a [...]

This is an epic battle of wits and wills. And if recent history is any indication, this is a war the Gaddafis, Al Assads and Salehs have already lost. by Aijaz Zaka Syed Is it the end of the road for the juggernaut of change in the Middle East? When the Syrians, all electrified by [...]