Monthly Archives: January 2009
According to Tel Aviv Uni., Israel breaks lulls in violence 79% of the time
al-Jazeera: The Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center, whose December 31 report titled “Six Months of the Lull Arrangement Intelligence Report,” confirmed that the June 19 truce was only “sporadically violated, and then not by Hamas but instead by … “rogue … Continue reading
Sniper Fire
Here’s a video of Israeli snipers killing an international journalist in Gaza months ago. Be warned, it’s very very disturbing.
Palestinian Death Toll Surpasses 1,000 after 19 Days of Israeli Aggression
Congrats to Israel and her supporters… they have really outdone themselves. The current death toll now stands at 1,013. Of course, these numbers cannot be independently verified because Israel won’t permit international journalists from entering Gaza. Apparently, they don’t want … Continue reading
Judaism is not Zionism
Lets not forget that they are not one and the same and that not all Jews support the Zionist onslaught in Gaza:
“We Will Not Go Down” (Song for Gaza)
See the video here.
Jon Stewart on the Gaza War
See the video here.
What You Don’t Know About Gaza
By RASHID KHALIDI Published: January 8, 2009 NY Times: NEARLY everything you’ve been led to believe about Gaza is wrong. Below are a few essential points that seem to be missing from the conversation, much of which has taken place … Continue reading
War Crimes?
Israel has really outdone itself this time: “On Thursday, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said its staff had found four weak and scared children beside their mothers’ bodies in houses hit by shelling in the Zeitoun neighbourhood … Continue reading
Gaza medics describe horror of strike which killed 70
The Telegraph: “They said that after the Israeli army first took the town on Saturday night soldiers had ordered about 100 members of the clan to gather in a single house owned by Wael Samouni around dawn on Sunday. At … Continue reading
The Shoe
You know people are upset when even the Turks are furious. See the video here.
Avi Shlaim: “How Israel brought Gaza to the brink of humanitarian catastrophe”
I never post articles in full but I’ll make an exception for this one. It is outstanding. The Guardian: Oxford professor of international relations Avi Shlaim served in the Israeli army and has never questioned the state’s legitimacy. But its … Continue reading
Obama’s strategic silence on Gaza
From an email a friend sent me: BBC: “Visiting the Israeli town of Sderot in July, he [Obama] suggested that he too would respond if rockets were being fired at his house.” Well, did he visit Gaza? Did you, Mr … Continue reading
How the War in Gaza Started…
The pro-Israel US media likes to say that Hamas violated the ceasefire and that Israel was just responding to the Islamic group’s attacks, but long before the ceasefire ended, Israel had been attacking the Gaza Strip. For instance, on November … Continue reading
If Gaza Falls…
by Sara Roy (my thesis adviser), read the article here.
The True Story of the Gaza War
Read about it here.
