A weakened Hamas is the goal of both Israel and the US. The Arab states, typically powerless, agree on this point: Arab [government] solidarity with the Palestinians is crumbling under Hamas’ leadership. Some ideas of what should happen next.
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Jews with no memory
Israel, the brutal neighbour bully, strikes again. Lessons are never remembered. History is forgotten. The “enemy” cannot be defeated. The Palestinians will struggle on and inevitably achieve independence. Death is becoming a speciality of the Israeli state.
Like little Baghdad
One of Israel’s leading journalists, Amira Hass, reports on the devastation in Gaza.
There are real people under Israeli bombs
Two eyewitness accounts of the current Israeli-led carnage in Gaza: The first is from a reliable source in Gaza: I’ve never seen anything like this.… It all happened so fast but the amount of death and destruction is inconceivable, even to me and I’m in the middle of it and a few hours have already…
We are killers (and enjoy it)
“I will play music and celebrate what the Israeli air force is doing.” Those were the words, spoken on Al Jazeera today by Ofer Shmerling, an Israeli civil defense official in the Sderot area adjacent to Gaza, as images of Israel’s latest massacres were broadcast around the world.
The Holocaust victims learn nothing
Israel’s slaughter in Gaza goes on. Latest news here, here, here, here, here and here. The real aim, largely ignored by the hopeless Western media? My friend and US colleague Souad Dajani writes: I’d add that Israel’s declaration (yesterday) that it would open crossing points into Gaza for humanitarian aid was meant to tell the…
The futility of action
Israel wants to teach Hamas a lesson, but not reconquer Gaza during its current attack on the isolated land.
The policy on Israel
My following article is published in Dawn, Pakistan’s leading English-language newspaper: During this year’s US presidential campaign, both Republican nominee John McCain and Democratic contender Barack Obama expressed unwavering support for Israel. It was the only country in the world that required constant loyalty tests. Obama told the leading Zionist lobby, AIPAC, that he would…
We are defining ourselves this way
Gaza is being literally strangled by Israel and the world remains largely silent. Engagement with Hamas is the only long-term option despite the bellicose statements by the Jewish state’s political elite. This is what happens when Zionism becomes little more than militancy and occupation.
The delicate Zionist touch
One of Israel’s finest journalists, Amira Hass, on Israel’s shocking policies towards Gaza and the Hamas effect: The first thing that captures your eyes, after two years away, is a visual quiet. Gone are the flags of every color (including green) that once flew everywhere; the billboards commemorating shaheeds with their weapons, new ones popping…