Open letter to Israeli soldiers

The following is an open letter to be soon published in Israeli newspapers: Jews call on Israeli soldiers to stop war crimes We Jews in the international community call upon Israeli soldiers to raise the Black Flag of Illegality over the operations against the people of Gaza. We refuse to remain silent while Israeli leaders…

How many kiddies should we shoot today?

So, writes… Herb Keinon in the Jerusalem Post, the world should really feel the pain of…Israel: Israel’s situation is also becoming more difficult, officials said, because it is viewed as the party that is refusing to accept a cease-fire. Another problem facing Israel, according to Foreign Ministry sources, is that while the world is being fed…

Little girls who bomb civilians

Israel continues to bombard Gaza. But Sydney’s Daily Telegraph prefers to focus on war criminals instead: Israeli women are required to do national service – and are being called up for operations in Gaza. Here are some of the girls in action.

There is no other term for it

Sayyid Najm, Egyptian novelist and literature specialist on war in literature, speaks on Al Jazeera Arabic… about the war in Gaza: If were were to speak about the literature of war with regard to today, I’d have to say that there is no war in Gaza. In Gaza today, all that we have experienced and lived…

This will achieve nothing but more terror

Between 600,000 and 700,000 Gazans have no water, some of them going on a week. About one million have no electricity, raw sewage is running in the streets in some places and various localities, especially in the northern Gaza Strip, face the threat of sewer backups. Such brutality is yet another episode in the history…

Calling for calm isn’t enough

A Norwegian doctor texts his friends from Gaza: We are wading in death, blood, and amputees. Many children. A pregnant woman. I have never experienced anything so terrible. Now we hear tanks. Pass it on, send it around, shout it out. Anything. DO SOMETHING! DO MORE! We are living in a history book now, all…

More than expressing outrage

Venezuela has expelled the Israeli ambassador to protest against… the country’s… assault on Gaza,… after the Venezuelan president described it as a “holocaust”. Venezuela’s foreign ministry said in a statement that Israel’s campaign constituted “flagrant violations of international law” and the use of “state terrorism”. “For the reasons mentioned above, the government of Venezuela has decided to expel…

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