Washington Report on Middle East Affairs - The effects of the 2010 census are being felt in many congressional races this year, as states which gained or lost population had to reconfigure their congressional districts accordingly. This has resulted more than once in newly created districts where two incumbents battle for a single available seat. ...

Mondoweiss - Representative Joe Walsh’s (R-IL) Op-Ed in the Washington Times May 3 turned heads. He argued that the only real solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is “one contiguous Israeli state from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea.” Palestinians who wanted to stay would have “limited voting power.” Walsh also suggests Jordan as a destination for Palestinians. Robert Wright of The Atlantic commented that the Op-Ed should be interpreted as a call f...

IRmep - Declassified files from long-running investigations of the Nuclear Materials and Equipment Corporation (NUMEC) over alleged illegal diversions of US government-owned weapons-grade uranium to Israel are now available online athttp://www.IRmep.org/ila/numec

Wall Writings - By a vote of 558 to 367, a strong majority of lay and clerical delegates to the United Methodist General Conference called this week for a boycott of Israeli companies operating in Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT).