By RASHID KHALIDI Published: January 8, 2009 NY Times: NEARLY everything youâ€™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 →

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War Crimes?

Posted on January 10, 2009 by iPouya

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 →

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Gaza medics describe horror of strike which killed 70

Posted on January 9, 2009 by iPouya

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 →

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The Shoe

Posted on January 9, 2009 by iPouya

You know people are upset when even the Turks are furious. See the video here.

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Avi Shlaim: “How Israel brought Gaza to the brink of humanitarian catastrophe”

Posted on January 9, 2009 by iPouya

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 →

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Obama’s strategic silence on Gaza

Posted on January 7, 2009 by iPouya

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 →

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How the War in Gaza Started…

Posted on January 3, 2009 by iPouya

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 →

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If Gaza Falls…

Posted on January 2, 2009 by iPouya

by Sara Roy (my thesis adviser), read the article here.

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The True Story of the Gaza War

Posted on January 2, 2009 by iPouya

Read about it here.

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The Newest Aggression

Posted on December 30, 2008 by iPouya

I’ve been terrible ill for a couple days now so I haven’t been at my computer at all but I’ve been glued to the TV watching the newest Israeli aggression and I’ve grown further disgusted with American media. So in … Continue reading →

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Home

Posted on December 24, 2008 by iPouya

For the past 7 months, I’ve been home for only a week. After coming home from the Middle East this past summer, I was home for a week and then I went to Boston for school for the past 4 … Continue reading →

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Angry Iraqi throws shoes at President Bush in Baghdad

Posted on December 14, 2008 by iPouya

Wow. I can’t believe Bush had shoes thrown at him. Wow. See the video here. Bush was in Iraq for a farewell visit and the shoe-throwing journalist yelled: “This is a farewell … you dog!” It’s so embarrassing that I’m … Continue reading →

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