The great Amira Hass, a beacon in dark times. One: The army has declared the West Bank villages of Bil’in and Na’alin a ‘closed military area’ until August 17, it emerged Monday. In arresting a demonstrator on Friday, police cited a military edict closing off the two villages, where weekly protests against the barrier Israel…
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Rest assured, Palestinians will resist again one day
Amira Hass in Haaretz asks the obvious question: “How will the next Palestinian uprising look“?
Amira Hass monitors Israeli apartheid
Two recent pieces by leading Israeli journalist Amira Hass are worth reading. First: “The year 2009 was the quietest for Israelis from the security point of view and the most violent for the Palestinians from the point of view of attacks by settlers in the West Bank.” Just as he was saying this – as…
Getting money into Gaza is essential for the living
Gaza is in ruins and Israel, now increasingly blocking access of foreign NGOs into the occupied territories, is trying to stop the flow of essential money into the Gaza Strip: Israeli officials suspect that representatives of international organizations used their cars to bring millions of dollars into the Gaza Strip, taking advantage of their immunity.…
How the Gaza Freedom March managed Hamas
Haaretz journalist Amira Hass, who I saw in Cairo for the Gaza Freedom March, writes in her newspaper about the restrictions imposed on the brief visit by Hamas: The march was not what the organizers had dreamed of during the nine months of preparation. The day before the trip to Gaza, they already knew that…
This is the way Israel deals with anti-occupation forces
Amira Hass in Haaretz on Israel’s fear of non-violent resistance to the occupation: There is an internal document that has not been leaked, or perhaps has not even been written, but all the forces are acting according to its inspiration: the Shin Bet, Israel Defense Forces, Border Police, police, and civil and military judges. They…
Understanding the world from the Palestinian side
One of the world’s finest journalists, Israel’s Amira Hass – somebody who believes you have to live with the occupied to fully understand their lives and plight – appeared recently on al-Jazeera:
Amira Hass recognised for her tenacity and truth-telling
The Guardian editorialises today on the remarkable Israeli journalist Amira Hass: Only Amira Hass could have received the International Women’s Media Foundation lifetime achievement award by saying her life as a journalist had been a failure. By her standards maybe, but then she sets them high. If her aim is to stop successive Israeli governments…
Only nice views in Israel, please
Free speech in Israel? In their deluded dreams, writes Amira Hass in Haaretz: A new report from Adalah shows how the courts and police attempted to stamp out opposition to Operation Cast Lead. “This is a time of war, and every incident harms the people’s morale.” This was not a sentence in a right-wing journal,…
What the UN Gaza study says about Israel
There is so much fascinating analysis over the UN Gaza report. A choice collection below: Amira Hass in Haaretz: Like the Serbs of yore, we Israelis continue thinking it’s the world that is wrong, and only we who are right. Israel struck a civilian population that remains under its control, it didn’t fulfill its obligation…