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International

Israel Refuses to Cooperate With UN Human Rights Inquiry

The Israeli incursion into the Gaza Strip produced various allegations of human rights abuses on the part of the IDF and naturally there are counter-allegations against Hamas. The UN Human Rights Council decided, sensibly, to do an investigation into (...)

16 avr. 2009 | | Matthew Yglesias

International

Pirate Gangs

American sea Captain Richard Phillips was safely rescued yesterday from the Somali pirates who had been holding him in a lifeboat off the coast of Africa. He had been held for five days. Gilad Schalit has now been held in Gaza for one thousand and twenty (...)

15 avr. 2009 | | Yaakov Kirschen

International

Young Israeli Conscientious Objectors Give their Army Salaries to Gaza

The nine conscientious objectors are giving the several thousand shekels they earned to the Doctors Without Borders organization to purchase medical equipment for Gaza. Maya Tamarin, 19, of Tel Aviv emphasized to ynetnews.com that their donation was (...)

31 Mar. 2009 | | Billie Greenwood

International

Israeli Excesses in Gaza Revealed

A discussion among Israeli veterans of the past winter’s military campaign against Gaza has become public, embarrassing the Israeli military and the politicians who launched that attack, which killed many more innocent civilians than it did Hamas (...)

20 mar. 2009 | | Juan Cole

International

Money For Gaza

Giving money to Hamas-controlled Gaza...and expecting that it won’t be used for terrorism...is like giving money to a heroin addict...and expecting that it won’t be used for drugs.

4 mar. 2009 | | Yaakov Kirschen

International

Cairo Donor Conference Nets $5 bn for Gaza Reconstruction ; Israelis Block Gaza Reconstruction

Shorter AFP : Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will try to tell Binyamin Netanyahu, the far rightwing prospective prime minister of Israel, that he should allow the rebuilding of Gaza and start up a peace process that leads to a Palestinian State. (...)

3 mar. 2009 | | Juan Cole

Comment

Lawfare in Gaza : legislative attack

The emerging landscape of "lawfare" allows military operations to remake international humanitarian law. Israel’s assault on Gaza both exposes the dangers and suggests the need for a response that subjects this law to critique. By Eyal Weizman. If, (...)

27 fév. 2009 | | openDemocracy

Comment

Why the Gaza blockade should end !

This post has been a long time coming. Ever since last December actually, where I’ve given hints of it on my twitter account. I just never got around to writing it, but today is as good a day as any I guess. So there goes it : I think it’s (...)

9 fév. 2009 | 2 comments | The Sandmonkey

Comment

Gaza New Siege Mechanism

Israel, the occupying power, is determined to keep a tight grip on the reconstruction process, which is why it sustained its closure of the border crossing following its "unilateral" ceasefire. Indeed, this is why it declared the ceasefire unilaterally: (...)

3 Feb. 2009 | | nicola

Comment

War on Gaza: Israeli Action, Not Reaction

Israeli 22 - day military operation, dubbed “Cast Lead,” against the Palestinian Gaza Strip was “not simply a reaction,” but “a calculation," Daniel Klaidman wrote in Newsweek on January 10. By Nicola Nasser. (...)

2 Feb. 2009 | | nicola

Media

What the BBC and Sky don’t want you to see

This is the Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) ad that the BBC and Sky are refusing to air. According to the BBC, "..broadcasting an appeal for Gaza at this time is incompatible with our role in providing balanced and objective reporting of this (...)

29 jan. 2009 | | Dilip Mutum (Adam)

International

Iran and the Gaza war, Sadegh Zibakalam

Tehran’s most bitter criticism during Israel’s assault was directed at leading Arab states. By Sadegh Zibakalam. The reaction to the three-week war in Gaza among Iran’s rulers and state-run media was predictable. They reported (...)

27 jan. 2009 | | openDemocracy

International

Gaza Aftermath Raises Question of War Crimes : Obama Must Overcome Initial Muslim Distrust

The Israeli assault on Gaza has drawn to an end, now that its Great Enabler (W.) is no longer in the cockpit of the Calamity Machine, and its architect, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, is the lamest of lame ducks. Those hawks who proclaimed so loudly (...)

23 jan. 2009 | | Juan Cole

International

Israel in Gaza increasingly seen as Rogue State by EU, Red Cross, Lancet ; Are Gazans Slaves ?

As of Thursday morning, the Israelis have now killed 1038 and wounded 4850 Palestinians. The BBC reports that "More than 300 of the dead are said to be children, 76 are women and more than 4,500 people have been injured, of whom 1,600 are children (...)

16 jan. 2009 | | Juan Cole

International

Comparing the Scale of Gaza & Israel to DC, Baltimore and New York

As Israel’s ground troops enter Gaza after more than a week of bombardment, it’s worth spending a moment getting a sense of the geographic scale of the region, particular for those of us in the US who aren’t used to the scale of smaller (...)

16 jan. 2009 | | Andy Carvin

International

And the winner of the Ghaza conflict is..

Hosny Mubarak. I know, I know, I am shocked too. But check this out : 1) He managed to sideline Qatar and Syria and the Iranian allies in the region, despite the huge pressure they put on him, and made Egypt the most important player in the palestinian (...)

15 jan. 2009 | | The Sandmonkey

International

Gaza War Sours Turkey-Israel Relations

One of the little noticed side effects of Israel’s war on Gaza has been a substantial souring of relations with Turkey. The Israelis had had a relatively close diplomatic, military and trade relationship with secular, Kemalist Turkey. The rise of (...)

14 jan. 2009 | | Juan Cole

International

Israeli Forces into Gaza City ; Hamas Fighters Brace for Guerrilla Actions

Israeli war planes bombed densely populated Gaza 12 times Sunday night through Monday morning, even as Israeli reservists were sent into the territory and troops engaged in firefights with local forces. Israel postponed the dispatching of its chief (...)

12 jan. 2009 | | Juan Cole

Comment

Gaza

Well I’m truly ashamed to admit that I’ve not actually written anything myself about Gaza, but it goes without saying that it is this is an absolutely disgusting, horrendous and vile campaign that seems to have been well summarized and (...)

12 jan. 2009 | | jultra

International

Israel Breaks the Rules

Many many years ago I was a young gag cartoonist trying to break into the business. One day I found myself cooling my heels in the small reception room of a magazine publisher in New York. I sat in the room with my portfolio of work, doodling with a (...)

9 jan. 2009 | | Yaakov Kirschen

Comment

Déja vu in Gaza

Do events in Gaza show the "responsibility to protect" to be nothing but pious buzz-words? By Vera Gowlland-Debbas. Through the lens of history, remember the famous attempt by Jews to resist the Germans in armed fighting in the Warsaw ghetto? As recounted (...)

6 Jan. 2009 | | openDemocracy

International

Israel/Gaza Cyberwar and Parallels to Abu Ghraib

SC magazine reports that Muslim and Israeli hackers have been going at each other in cyberspace, as an adjunct to the fighting in Gaza : ’More than 10,000 sites have been compromised by hackers, many Muslim radicals who are gaining control of the (...)

6 jan. 2009 | | Juan Cole

International

is the messiah?

Gaza Palestine Israel

6 Jan. 2009 | | micmac08USA

Politics

Have Bush and the Neocons Ruined it for the Israelis ?

The Israeli propaganda blitz around their attack on Gaza has been greeted with uncharacteristic skepticism by the American public and even by some of the mainstream US press. Even the Jewish American community is uneasy about this one, in a way perhaps (...)

5 jan. 2009 | | Juan Cole

International

Looking beyond the horror

When Hussein rode his Arabian horse to Karbala more than 1400 years ago, he knew the risks involved getting beheaded by nascent Muslims, but he did not know that his death would be incorporated into a pseudo-Arab martyrdom formula. What would Hussein, the (...)

2 jan. 2009 | | Abu Kais

Comment

Gaza : unlock this prison

The humanitarian crisis in Gaza demands urgent action on both the aid and political fronts, says Geoffrey Bindman. The appalling situation of the 1.5 million residents of the Gaza strip has led a group of development and human-rights agencies - comprising (...)

7 mar. 2008 | 1 comment | openDemocracy

Comment

Politics Unmercifully Trespass Humanitarian Borders in Gaza

The major political players who are involved in sealing off 1.5 million Palestinians into an open air prison in the world’s most densely populated 360-square-kilometre area of the Gaza Strip are unmercifully trespassing humanitarian borders there; (...)

13 Aug. 2007 | | nicola

Comment

Gaza Year Zero : Khmer Rouge With Korans

I wanted to give Hamas the benefit of a doubt. Despite differences of opinion on Israel policy issues, I accepted the argument that the group primarily wanted to reform Palestinian territories, be rid of the corrupt Fatah adminstrators, set up social (...)

18 jui. 2007 | | Kesher Talk

Politics

Activists in Gaza

Ehud Olmert is off telling the world that Israel can now have peace talks with the Palestinian Authority because Hamas now controls Gaza ! Why on Earth does Olmert think that this disaster enhances the chances for a peace agreement ? The answer is simple. (...)

18 jui. 2007 | 1 comment | Yaakov Kirschen

Politics

Hamastan : Egypt’s New Neighbour

It seems that we’re going to have new neighbours pretty soon. Hamas is currently on its way to consolidate its power over the Gaza strip. Egypt, at least the government, is watching this with tremendous concern. My advice to the Egyptian government (...)

18 jui. 2007 | | The Big Pharaoh

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