Gideon Levy, Haaretz, November 4: Banot Nechama, this year’s pop music discovery, was not there last year, but this year the group joined Aharon Barnea, Shimon Peres, Aviv Gefen, Achinoam Nini (“Noa”) and Sarit Haddad, these memorial rallies’ house bands. Last year the writer David Grossman, then a newly bereaved father, was at the podium,…
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Girl, come over here
Who said Hamas doesn’t like that funky music, white boy? Hamas militants have launched a new weapon in their struggle with Israel: a troupe of honey-voiced singers known as Protectors of the Homeland. Wearing crisply pressed fatigues in urban camouflage blue, the six band members gather each day to practise in an old office within…
Morality, Israeli style
Cutting off electricity supplies to Gaza is just the latest attempt by Israel to inspire the world and highlight its Jewish values. The thinking? Indeed, we always wanted to be a light unto the nations, but there are some cases where darkness can also prove beneficial. In other words, Israel can commit war crimes because…
Isolating those in need
Israel’s real agenda in Gaza? Haaretz explains (despite the wishes of Zionist lobbyists in the US, who just wish those anti-Israel Haaretz journalists would keep their mouths shut and show public solidarity with the Jewish state): There is an enormous gap between the reasons Israel is giving for the decision to impose significant sanctions against…
The media threat within
AlJazeera English reports on the increasingly difficult situation for journalists in Gaza. Though at the moment it appears to be Hamas, and not Israel, causing the troubles: