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…

Jewish community divided over Israeli/Hamas conflict

The following article, by Michael Rogers, appears in today’s Sydney Wentworth Courier newspaper: A senior Israeli diplomat has called on Australian Jews protesting against Israel’s military action in the Gaza Strip to visit the conflict zone and see the Israeli people’s suffering for themselves. More than 120 prominent Jewish Australians, including anti-Zionist author Antony Loewenstein…

An important role for independent Jewish voices

The following letters appear in today’s Sydney Morning Herald: Hats off to the Independent Australian Jewish Voices for a sane and reasonable statement (“Australian Jews protest against Israel’s action“, January 6). If Israeli settlers and citizens honestly believe that their Government’s current policies will ensure the safety and prosperity of their grandchildren in 2059, then…

Bombs bring freedom

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