Failure on every count

The conflict between Israel and Hamas should give us cause to pause and wonder what the Jewish state has become. War crimes are taking place: “There is no doubt that Israel is using phosphorous bombs over Gaza. Israel is flagrantly violating the Fourth Geneva Convention,” says Raji Sourani, head of the Palestinian Center for Human…

Let’s equal the equation

Dr. Ahmed Yousef, Hamas Deputy Foreign Minister and Former Senior Adviser to Prime Minister Ismail Haniyah in Gaza, asks a question: It is clear that attacking Hamas is tacitly sanctioned while civilian deaths, the statistical majority, are tolerated. If the world believes then that to kill Palestinians for their beliefs is tolerable, then it is…

The way not to win war

Such a noble goal to defeat an “enemy”, Hamas, that is impossible to defeat: Israel supporters respond to the cyber-attacks launched by Islamic hackers through DDoS. A group of students have developed an application that allows Israel sympathizers to use their computer resources and Internet bandwith in order to knock Palestinian websites offline. The online…

This is one way forward

Boycotts [against Israel] may achieve what bombs and guns can’t. As a previous opponent of the boycott, divestment and sanction movement, I now support it. I share the position of Naomi Klein who argues that it is the only moral response to the Jewish state’s barbarity towards the Palestinians. Plus: The reason the BDS strategy…

How can we connect your anger?

The kindness of multinationals? Australia’s largest telecommunications provider says it won’t charge for phone calls to the Gaza Strip, but the offer could be in vain as the region’s telecommunication services teeter on the verge of collapse in the face of the military assault by Israeli forces.

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