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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
Posted in Gaza, Palestine
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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
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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
Posted in Gaza, Palestine
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The Shoe
You know people are upset when even the Turks are furious. See the video here.
Posted in Gaza, The Conflict
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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
Posted in Gaza, Palestine
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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
Posted in Gaza, Palestine
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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
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If Gaza Falls…
by Sara Roy (my thesis adviser), read the article here.
The True Story of the Gaza War
Read about it here.
The Newest Aggression
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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