Uri Avnery: the war between Israel and Hamas has come out a draw, and now Israel has to negotiate with Hamas.

The Obama regime is citing the supposed "threat of terrorism" as a reason to keep undocumented migrants in prison rather than release them while their cases are heard.

Because I believe in equal rights, I don't think that this is even worse for being applied to women and children. It is equally bad to do this to men.

Some Australian cities allow businesses to vote in local elections.

This is the logical progression from the Corporations United decision*. In fact, why allow mere humans to vote at all? Allowing businesses to appoint officials directly is the logical end of plutocracy.

^* The organization is officially called "Citizens United", but I prefer to call it what it is rather than repeat its falsehood.

Human Rights Watch accuses the Egyptian army of intentionally massacring protesting Morsi supporters.

The UK government quashed torture lawsuits by saying that admitting the facts would embarrass the US. Then it began lobbying the CIA to stop the US Senate from acknowledging the torture, because if it did, that would pull the rug out from under the UK's self-serving argument.