Palestinian civil society is not just calling on Israel to account for its crimes (remember this next time one reads that Palestinians are only obsessed with holding Israel responsible for human rights violations) Eleven Palestinian human rights organizations have called on the Palestinian Authority and the Hamas government in Gaza to endorse the Goldstone report…
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Review of The Road
Last night I watched the new film, The Road, based on Cormac McCarthy’s award winning book and directed by Australian John Hillcoat (here’s his diary): It’s a terrifying vision of a post-apocalyptic world where cannibalism thrives. We are never told why the planet is destroyed (nuclear holocaust/environmental catastrophe?) but it doesn’t matter. The grim vision…
Israel will love you if you’re pro-government, pro-war and pro-state
The Association for Civil Rights in Israel released its annual report in late December. The findings are devastating and reflect Israel’s gradual descent into a proud monoculture that slams alternative groups, racial classes and anti-mainstream perspectives: Freedom of Expression – If they like what you say: In 2009, there has been a disturbing increase in…
Returning to Gaza to find a land still destroyed
Dr. Izzeldin Abuelaish, a Gaza infertility specialist, lost three daughters during Israel’s massacres in late 2008/early 2009. Now living in Toronto, he returned recently to Gaza for the first time since July 2009.
Using white phosphorous on Palestine cannot be forgotten
The call for Zionist accountability is growing: Israeli officials who authorized the use of white phosphorous in densely populated Gaza should be tried for war crimes, a British Labour Party legislator said Friday, after entering the Hamas-ruled territory with 60 European parliamentarians. … “The lawmakers are visiting Gaza to draw attention to the territory’s evil…
Gaza is a man-made disaster, eyewitness account
During the recent Gaza Freedom March, I became good friends with Nitin Sawhney, a research affiliate at MIT. He’s currently in Gaza and writing a fascinating blog about his experiences. There’s much to digest but here’s something from the latest post: The devastating events of the recent earthquake in Haiti linger in my mind as…
Will Israel soon become a tipping point in American life?
The American mainstream is starting to awaken to Israeli madness. Andrew Sullivan, one of the country’s biggest bloggers, has been increasingly vocal in questioning the role of the Jewish state. Who else in the MSM is really doing so? The Netanyahu government has all but declared war on the Obama administration and then openly disses…
How Hamas will manage the impending Egyptian wall against Gaza
Abu Murrad, a nomme de guerre, senior commander in Rafah of the Izzedine al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas: It’s not a big problem. There are already holes in the wall, and the Egyptians know this. We’ll go through it or under it. Already there are tunnels deeper than the wall. This is what…
What’s the blockade doing to the Strip?
The latest weekly edition of Gaza Gateway: The firing of rockets and mortar shells on towns in southern Israel from the Gaza Strip last week should be categorically condemned, since it targeted Israeli civilians or failed to distinguish between military and civilian targets. The perpetrators and the Hamas government which allows militant groups to fire…
Without the tunnels, Gaza would struggle to live
Newsy examines the role of the tunnels that keep Gaza alive: