An Israeli paper is reporting that the number of Jewish settlers in the West Bank is now over 300,000. The daily Haaretz says the number of West Bank settlers is 304,569 – a 2.3 percent increase since January. It’s quoting statistics compiled by the military. The number of Israeli settlers has more than doubled since…
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Rapping the Gazan world
DARG TeaM GaZa are the Strip’s biggest hip-hop group. I spent tonight with the band, a moderate, feisty, curious and highly intelligent bunch of guys. And soon to (hopefully) launch their Palestinian vision onto the world. The voice of a Gazan generation that is rarely heard in the West. Here’s their recent video, 23 days,…
Evil gone, reports serious journalist
New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman, who has spent the last while hanging out with Adm. Mike Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, concludes the following: After spending a week traveling the frontline of the “war on terrorism” — from the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Ronald Reagan in the seas off Iran, to…
Palestinian AIDS patients enjoy little care, little mercy
The following story was published in 2006 by my Gazan journalist friend Ahmed Aldabba: The way in which 14-year-old Osama, not his real name, caught the HIV/AIDS virus was unusual, but the reaction of the Palestinian society was not so surprising. “I got the visrus from a blood transfusion when I was 12 years old,”…
Islam under Hamas gets defined
Being in Gaza, it’s clear that a relatively strict interpretation of Islam is growing in public appearance. Many Gazans don’t subscribe to it, but for example it’s very rare to see a woman with her hair uncovered. This report therefore rings true: Senior Hamas officials had claimed, in the wake of Hamas’ June 2007 Gaza…
Why the web is breaking down Zionist tribalism
Following our recent video shot in Jerusalem on Americans, Jews, settlements and bigotry, one of the makers, David Jacobus, responds on Mondoweiss to some of the criticisms directed at us: As a contributor to the film Cruel but Necessary: Israeli Opinions about the Settlements and Obama, I wanted to add some perspective on the debates…
Cruel but Necessary: Israeli Opinions about the Settlements and Obama
The following article recently appeared on Mondoweiss: Antony Loewenstein and Joseph Dana write: With all the current rhetoric out of Washington regarding an Israeli settlement freeze in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, we wanted to gauge public opinion on the streets of Jerusalem on a sunny, Sunday afternoon last weekend. What we found was…