The fallout over Israeli academic Neve Gordon’s call for a boycott against his country gathers pace. It’s a position I share with him and we’ve exchanged communication in the last days about this. Israel treats the Palestinians like rabid dogs; the state must be forced to understand that its behaviour is totally unacceptable. Here’s an…
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Would the world like to condemn this Israeli violence?
The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights, based in Gaza, issues a press release about Israeli terrorism: The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) strongly condemns attacks perpetrated by Israeli forces in the evening of 24 August, and the morning of 25 August 2009. Three Palestinians were killed while a fourth is missing consequent to Israeli…
The price of being a Gazan
The following story contains little concrete information but I heard during my time in Gaza that Palestinian civilians living near the border with Israel were routinely shot and attacked by Israeli troops: One Palestinian was killed and another wounded on Monday evening by Israeli soldiers’ gunfire in northern Gaza Strip, Palestinian medics and witnesses said.…
The Zionist policy is always to humiliate Palestinians
Akiva Eldar writes in Haaretz of where the real power lies in Israel: Rather than demand an apology, the Israeli peace camp needs to send Moshe “Bogie” Ya’alon a large bouquet of flowers. The videotaped appearance of the vice premier before a group of Feiglinites last week is worth its weight in gold. His statements…
Gaza moves further down the path of radicalism
I investigated in Gaza the growing Islamisation of the Strip. It continues: Female students in the Gaza Strip will be required to wear head coverings and full-length robes beginning this school year, the Hamas rules of the Gaza Strip announced on Monday. According to the new regulations, any female student that does not attend class…
Brutality brought to you by Zionist military service
The following article, which appeared in Israel’s right-wing paper Maariv, was translated by Keren Rubinstein and distributed by the Middle East News Service. The author is the editor of the arts and culture supplement: With baton in hand: that’s us Shai Lahav The wide public debate about violence has ignored one of the most basic…
Kicking goals in the Strip
The National reports on the ways in which Gazans struggle to maintain a sense of normality: There’s an unexpected expanse of green a little up a side street in the Tel al-Hawa district of Gaza City that provides welcome relief to the eyes amid the concrete buildings, the grey rubble and the potholed streets that…
Hamas is a disease that Israel can never shake
A reader sent me this June report on Hamas from the United States Institute of Peace. It’s the kind nuanced understanding of political realities in the region that is sorely lacking from the vast bulk of the establishment: Discussion in the United States regarding Hamas is usually framed by two somewhat contradictory assumptions: (1) that…
Telling accurate stories about struggles in Gaza
Hamas recently premiered its first film in Gaza. Blogger Lina Al Sharif attended the screening and wrote the following observations: It’s not the best movie I have seen, but it’s a movie from Gaza. Putting in consideration all the circumstances, the resources and facilities that are needed to produce a movie with such plot; the…
Palestinians are dying to keep Israelis deluded
When I recently visited some of the major hospitals in Gaza I was told that life-saving medicines and equipment were not allowed into the Strip due to the Israeli and Egyptian led blockade. These are the results: Arafat Hamdona, 20, has been confined to the cancer unit of al-Shifa, Gaza’s primary hospital, since he was…