Could it be any clearer that Israel’s war is against the Palestinian people themselves? Poverty in the Gaza Strip has tripled this year under the Israeli blockade, according to the UN agency helping refugees living there. John Ging, the head of the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) in Gaza, told reporters on Thursday that…
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The world cannot forget Gaza outrage
Human Rights Watch on the UN Gaza report: The failure of the United States and European Union governments to endorse the report of the Gaza fact-finding mission sends a message that serious laws-of-war violations will be treated with kid gloves when committed by an ally, Human Rights Watch said today. On September 29, 2009 Justice…
The power of a moderate, Zionist Jew like Richard Goldstone
Israel is bitching to the world that the UN Goldstone Gaza report should be dismissed, ignored, scrubbed from history. And yet cracks are starting to appear, writes Gideon Levy in Haaretz: Israel should thank Judge Richard Goldstone and his commission’s important report. After subjecting him to useless, automatic mudslinging, Israel suddenly realized that it should…
How the occupation sucks water from the void
Ta’ayush are a wonderful Israeli human rights group that spend most weekends in the West Bank protecting Palestinians from crazy settlers and complicit soldiers (see here). Last weekend this happened: In one of the most remarkable activities in recent time, Palestinians and Israeli activists succeeded this Saturday (alas, only for few hours) in breaking the…
Letting refugees die in the name of punishing Hamas
I heard constantly during my recent visit to Gaza that the Egyptians were as complicit in the blockade as the Israelis. This news is therefore shocking but unsurprising: Rights groups such as Amnesty International have called on the Egyptian authorities to “urgently rein in their border security forces” after seven African asylum-seekers were killed in…
Israel clearly believes hospitals shield terrorists
Israel, your generosity knows few bounds: Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has agreed to transfer construction materials into the Gaza Strip in order to rebuild a Gaza hospital damaged during Operation Cast Lead. Until now Israel has not allowed cement and other constuction materials into the Gaza Strip. Ha’aretz reports that the move is a…
Where the lessons of Iraq are ignored over Iran
The growing hysteria over Iran is deafening (details here, here,… here and here.). Watch this segment on the “liberal” MSNBC and see how the American media elite (including Arianna Huffington, just back from a little trip to Israel) are almost gagging to bomb the Islamic Republic. Salon’s Glenn Greenwald is a notable voice of reason:
Israel real peace threat
A revealing letter in today’s Melbourne Herald Sun, proving once again that public opinion towards Israel is far ahead of the political and media elite: Was there an elephant in the room at the recent meeting of the G20? So much time devoted to badgering Iran over its alleged nuclear ambitions and not a word…
Oppression of Arabs can only lead one way
We are being warned: Palestinian politicians and Israeli political analysts are warning of a third Palestinian Intifadah following serious rioting in East Jerusalem last Sunday.
When Jews are too keen to use military force
My people have gone mad: A new survey shows that a majority of American Jews would support a U.S. military strike on Iran to prevent it from developing nuclear weapons — a significant increase from a year ago.