I sent Noam Chomsky my recent article in The Nation about Gaza and his personal response (published with permission) is below: Harsh punishment of Gaza took place long before their preemptive coup in 07, in fact was announced and implemented immediately after the Jan 06 election, both by the US and Israel (with the EU…
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What is happening in Gaza
John Ging, operations director of Gaza’s UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) – a man I met while there and found his passion, determination and objectivity truly inspiring – told Xinhua in late July that, “the ordinary people are continuing to pay a huge humanitarian price for the political failure to find a solution to…
The Palestinian territories are moving further apart
More (US?) supported madness between the West Bank and Gaza: Authoritative sources in the Fatah movement have asserted to Asharq Al-Awsat that the Palestinian leadership has decided to stop all the funds it pays to the Gaza Strip from the Palestinian Authority’s [PA] budget apart from the salaries of its own employees. According to the…
A view from Gaza on ABC Radio
I was interviewed last week on ABC Radio National’s Late Night Live from Tel Aviv about my recent travels to Gaza:
Gaza in conflict
My following article appears in US magazine The Nation: Israel’s recent war against Gaza has been condemned by virtually every human rights group in the world. An Israeli NGO of combat soldiers called Breaking the Silence released a report in July, based on the testimony of veterans of the Gaza campaign, that found excessive violence…
Are we breeding a generation in Gaza who hates us?
Rami Almeghari on Israel’s willful destruction of Gaza’s educational infrastructure: In late December 2008, Israeli operated, American-made F-16 jets bombed Gaza’s Islamic University. The university’s laboratories and several buildings were destroyed. Dr. Kamalin Shaath, President of the Islamic University, explained that “The buildings are still demolished, all we did was remove the rubble. We are…
The Islamists must be held to account, too
Israel committed human rights abuses during the December/January war. And what about Hamas? A new Humans Right Watch report determined Thursday that Hamas rocket fire on Israel’s south constitutes a war crime. The 25-page report documents rocket fire from the Gaza Strip towards Israel starting November 2008 – a period when three Israelis were killed…
The personal effect of our Gaza policy
Journalist and academic Rami Almeghari (and a friend of mine in Gaza) writes about the dire state of health inside the Strip: “Sometimes we feel we need mental health care, as the pressure we face is so immense,” said Sumaiya Habib, a mental health worker at the Gaza–based Palestinian Center for Democracy and Conflict Resolution…
My Israel Question returns
The third edition of my first book, My Israel Question, is released in September by Melbourne University Publishing: Antony’s Loewenstein’s My Israel Question was a bestseller when first published and generated a storm of controversy, critical praise and robust public debate. Loewenstein’s forensic discussion of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict continues here in a fully updated and…
The kind of Hamas the world really fears
Amjad Atallah, director of the New America Foundation, explains how Hamas has once again talked about accepting a Palestinian state along 1967 borders. And once again, the world accuses the group of being inflexible. Who is really the intransigent one now? The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday that Hamas Chief Khaled Meshaal told Jay…