One week after the war with Israel and Hamas stopped - each side declaring a unilateral cease-fire - Gaza remains in a kind of stupor. There are numbers, of course, to describe its misery - 4,000 homes destroyed, 21,000 badly damaged, 100,000 people homeless, according to several aid agencies - but they do not tell the full story. ...more

January 25, 2009

Just 10 days and a world crisis ago, Tuesday night's gathering of the Sarasota-Manatee Jewish Federation was supposed to highlight a small, informal discussion of Israeli security issues by intelligence expert John Loftus. ...more

January 7, 2009

Just 10 days and a world crisis ago, tonight's gathering of the Sarasota-Manatee Jewish Federation was supposed to highlight a small, informal discussion of Israeli security issues by intelligence expert John Loftus. In the aftermath of Israel's ongoing military response to years of random bombing by terrorists in Gaza, however, the event became a rally for supporters of Israel's "Right to Self Defense." ...more

January 6, 2009

In June 2006, the federal government announced with much fanfare that it had arrested seven Miami men and foiled their al-Qaida-inspired plot to blow up Chicago's Sears Tower and wage a "ground war" against the United States. ...more

May 8, 2008

Fidel Castro on Sunday accused former Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar of urging Washington to bomb Serbian radio and television stations during NATO's participation in the war in Kosovo. ...more

October 1, 2007