What happens when a delegation of American lawyers from the National Lawyers Guild conducts a fact-finding mission to the Gaza Strip?
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Where is the Jewish outrage?
Gideon Levy, Haaretz, February 8: Lieberman and his soldiers are borne on the tides of hatred for Arabs, hatred of democracy and the rule of law, and the stink of nationalism, racism and bloodthirstiness. These have turned, horrifically, into the hottest electoral assets on the market. Like all others of his political ilk, he cynically…
Do they want to know?
Israeli human rights group B’Tselem calls for a full investigation into the state’s abuses in Gaza: The extent of the harm to the Gaza civilian population from the recent operation is unprecedented. Whole families were wiped out. Children were killed before their parents’ eyes. Some people watched as their loved ones bled to death. The…
A quiet, internal revolution
Channel 4‘s Lindsey Hilsum reflects on the changes in Iran 10 years after she first visited the country: …The scenes the government exhibits to foreign journalists – revolutionary parades, meetings of fervent women in black – represent an Iran created to prove a myth. Most Iranians go nowhere near Friday prayers or the gatherings the…
Humans are still involved
The future of conflict, according to P.W.Singer, author of a new book called Wired for War, will be fought with robots and drones. A supposedly bloodless kill.
How to breed hatred in children
10-year-old Mona Samouni describes how she became one of the very few survivors of the Samouni extended family after an attack on the densely populated area of Zeitoun in Gaza:
Guess they’ll just have to kill more Arabs
The two-state solution is dead. “Left-wing” Israeli leader Haim Oron, chairman of the Meretz party, says: The two-state solution is on its last legs. That is why this election is so important. If we do not quickly implement the partition into two states, that solution will evaporate and Zionism will be stuck its worst crisis…
“Death to the Arabs”
Welcome to Israel’s brutal, racist heart. And this is a state that the world community wants to support unconditionally?
And we are growing in strength
Antony Lerman, The Guardian, February 6: Each and every Jew who protested as a Jew against the Gaza war had a personal Jewish imperative for doing so. Some simply expressed dismay; most demanded action to end the carnage. To say that we failed is neither an expression of despair nor a statement that dissent wasn’t…
Not so fast
The United Nations has backed down from a claim that a UN run school in Gaza was hit during an Israeli mortar attack last month. Forty-three people were reportedly killed in the attack. But a clarification issued by the UN’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian affairs says the shelling and all the casualties happened…