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Deal Breakers: Seven reasons why Israel will not lift the Gaza blockade

Following the Flotilla deadly attack, several reports were circulated indicating that Israel will succumb to international pressure and lift the Gaza blockade. With so many deal breakers dominating the scene, I don't see this happening anytime soon...

Published 16 Jun 2010 8:43 AM by Fadi Elsalameen

Filed under: gaza, Israel left, Egypt [Edit Tags]
Flotilla fallout: An early assessment

There's a lot more information out now about the disastrous Israeli attack on the flotilla that was heading to Gaza last weekend. That doesn't necessarily mean more clarity about what actually happened, but there's enough to start assessing...

Published 4 Jun 2010 11:52 AM by Moshe Yaroni

Filed under: israel, gaza [Edit Tags]
Living under the bombing of Gaza

On December 27, 2008, 27-year old Khulood Ghanem was in Gaza City when Israel launched its massive three-week military assault on the captive population of Gaza. 1400 Palestinians were killed, a majority of them non-combatants and 400 of them children...

Published 23 Apr 2010 2:10 AM by Khulood Ghanem

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How to market Gaza as an Israeli success story: The complete guide

The complete guide The following guide was inspired by a report by the Government of Israel , summarizing Israel's humanitarian activities for the Gaza Strip in 2009 and at the start of 2010, which was submitted yesterday to the Ad Hoc Liaison Committee...

Published 15 Apr 2010 8:27 AM by Didi Remez

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Did banned media report foretell of Gaza war crimes?

Publish investigation, Israeli MP demands An Arab member of the Israeli parliament is demanding that a newspaper be allowed to publish an investigative report that was suppressed days before Israel attacked Gaza in winter 2008. The investigation by Uri...

Published 15 Apr 2010 7:14 AM by Jonathan Cook

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Meeting “uncle” Keith

Salamz all, A week ago I received an e-mail from Tida telling us that our Tida group would be meeting Congressman Keith Ellison during his visit to the Strip. The name Keith Ellison was not new to me. I had heard about him when he was first elected; after...

Published 14 Apr 2010 5:03 AM by Lina Al-Sharif

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Gaza’s first Siamese twins make history

Entering Mubarak hospital, I witnessed an unusual state of panic where all doctors were going and coming out of the same room. Every one was on alert and busy. I headed to the office of Dr. Abu Amooneh to get more details about the rare case of the first...

Published 7 Apr 2010 3:31 AM by Omar Ghraieb

Filed under: gaza [Edit Tags]
Gaza notebook: One candle is not enough

Spring revives hopes for relief from our suffering in Gaza . It has been harder ever since Israeli bombings destroyed so many of our homes and lives. The warmth of spring warms my spirits but not yet my hope for a sustained renewal of peace talks in the...

Published 30 Mar 2010 5:59 PM by Rania Elhilou

Filed under: gaza [Edit Tags]
“Innovation under the siege” exhibition

Gaza has been under a tight siege for almost 3 years now. As you might have heard or read already, this closure is destroying the economy of this coastal territory. Anyway, the other day I saw a large poster in the street promoting an exhibition called...

Published 27 Mar 2010 10:51 AM by Lina Al-Sharif

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Yaalon: We are "maneuvering' under pressure from peace now and the US

As I write this blog post, Israel's inner cabinet, the so-called "Forum of Seven," is convened in Jerusalem to hammer out a reply to the Obama administration's requests for sincere measures that would advance peace talks with the Palestinians...

Published 26 Mar 2010 7:32 PM by Ori Nir

Filed under: palestine, israel, gaza [Edit Tags]
Omar released after beating and Fatenah animation

Yesterday, after 6 days of kidnapping and beating our friend Omar Mousa Ala'eddin from the village of Al-Ma'sara, the Israeli occupation authorities released him broken and battered. We spend much of the day with him. Omar is an English student...

Published 24 Mar 2010 3:17 PM by Mazin Qumsiyeh

Filed under: israel, gaza, US [Edit Tags]
Activism is change

An activist is a person who feels strongly about a cause and who is also willing to dedicate time and energy towards advancing and realizing this cause. This might, however, be my own limited interpretation of what activism means. I was born and raised...

Published 21 Mar 2010 8:12 PM by Ramzy Baroud

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A free people in our land

JERUSALEM - It was never really about the timing. Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's apology to US Vice President Joseph Biden enabled the Tel Aviv University speech to conclude the visit on an up note. The ice-cold water from Washington came only...

Published 20 Mar 2010 6:22 PM by Gershon Baskin

Filed under: gaza, natanyahu, jewish [Edit Tags]
Rocket from Gaza kills 1 in Israel, which returns fire

A rocket fired from Gaza on Thursday killed a Thai agricultural laborer at an Israeli cooperative farm on the border called Nativ Haasara. Israel responded within hours, launching air strikes on six targets in Gaza. Although Hamas holds power in Gaza...

Published 19 Mar 2010 3:37 PM by Evan Hill

Filed under: israel, gaza [Edit Tags]
Biden's Amman meeting: Another problem for Americans?

It began with a short press release issued by the US embassy in Amman late last Thursday and has since mushroomed. The 20 words given about the topic were: "Vice President Biden met with civil society representatives to discuss preparations for the...

Published 18 Mar 2010 4:18 PM by Daoud Kuttab

Filed under: gaza, obama, Jordan, biden [Edit Tags]
1000 days of siege

Salamz all, Ayman Mohyledin, AlJazeera English correspondent in Gaza, has written this blog post that describes the very minutiae of Gaza's situation after 1000 days of siege. ٌRead here. The statistics speak for themselves; actually sometimes there...

Published 15 Mar 2010 4:52 PM by Lina Al-Sharif

Filed under: palestine, gaza [Edit Tags]
The people of Gaza and a reporter: Victims of the NY Times' stubbornness

The people of Gaza appear to have been the recent victims of the arrogance (or what some believe to be the bias) of the NY Times. The stubbornness of Bill Keller, the executive editor of the NY Times, in refusing to relocate his Jerusalem reporter has...

Published 8 Mar 2010 7:38 PM by Daoud Kuttab

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It’s not about peace

One of the common mistakes done when discussing the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians is in setting peace as the goal of the political process. It is not only wrong, but also counter-productive, and in the end, serves mainly those who which to...

Published 1 Mar 2010 4:54 PM by Noam Sheizaf

Filed under: palestine, israel, gaza [Edit Tags]
Learning from the Sadat years

BRUSSELS - Nearly three decades after his death, the former Egyptian president, Anwar el-Sadat, remains a controversial figure. In Israel and many parts of the West, he is best remembered for his daring trip to Jerusalem, where he became the first and...

Published 26 Feb 2010 4:15 PM by Khaled Diab

Filed under: palestine, israel, gaza, palestinians, Arab [Edit Tags]
Foreign policy hawks: Wrong since 1938

In every international conflict, the side that favors war invariably gets to "own" the flag. Those favoring diplomacy can complain as much as they choose, but it's always the hard-liners, the hawks, and the "bombs away" crowd that...

Published 26 Feb 2010 1:05 PM by MJ Rosenberg

Filed under: palestine, israel, gaza, Gaza war, United States [Edit Tags]
Gaza's untold story

Book review of Ramzy Baroud's "My Father Was a Freedom Fighter: Gaza's Untold Story" (Pluto Press, London: 2010). One year on since Israel's criminally-insane war on Gaza, many are still unaware of the roots of the 'conflict'...

Published 25 Feb 2010 7:37 AM by Mamoon Alabbasi

Filed under: palestine, israel, gaza, Gaza war, Arab [Edit Tags]
Haniyeh calls for a "third intifada" over Tomb of the Patriarchs

I've only been to Hebron once. It was one of the stranger experiences in my travels in the Middle East -- the overwhelming military presence to protect a few hundred settlers, the settler-only road, the grave of Israeli terrorist Baruch Goldstein...

Published 23 Feb 2010 1:42 PM by Gregg Carlstrom

Filed under: palestine, israel, gaza, West Bank [Edit Tags]
Is Harvard prof advocating Palestinian genocide?

This has to be seen to be believed. Dr. Martin Kramer, a fellow at Harvard's National Security Studies Program, has posted a speech he delivered two weeks ago in Israel in which he urged solving the Palestinian refugee problem by population control...

Published 23 Feb 2010 9:20 AM by MJ Rosenberg

Filed under: palestine, israel, gaza, palestinians, MJ Rosenberg, refugees [Edit Tags]
J street creates fear and trembling in Israel

Just what is it with the Israeli government and J Street? Hardly a week passes without either an Israeli government official -- or one of their allies in the United States -- blasting the one year old pro-Israel, pro-peace lobby. It's strange. J Street...

Published 18 Feb 2010 3:41 PM by MJ Rosenberg

Filed under: palestine, israel, gaza, West Bank, J street [Edit Tags]
Not every red in Gaza is for blood

Originally published February 14, 2010 on Live from Gaza Today the world turns red - it is Valentine's Day. Despite the fact that I do not believe in such a day, there are people in Gaza, though they are a very small minority, who actually celebrate...

Published 16 Feb 2010 11:46 AM by Lina Al-Sharif

Filed under: palestine, gaza [Edit Tags]
Is Abbas in a corner?

Inch by inch, the Palestinian president has apparently once again succumbed to American pressure. He is about to allow his junior officials to start so-called "proximity talks" with their Israeli counterparts to pave the ground for the resumption...

Published 12 Feb 2010 2:39 PM by George S. Hishmeh

Filed under: palestine, israel, gaza, US, lieberman [Edit Tags]
What Israelis can do

When an American President fails to mention Israel in his State of the Union address, the silence speaks volumes. Here in Washington, most people involved in promoting Middle East peace took it as a sign that Barack Obama was de-prioritizing his commitment...

Published 12 Feb 2010 2:21 PM by Moshe Yaroni

Filed under: palestine, israel, gaza, West Bank, US [Edit Tags]
Fact checking the anti-NIF report: Systematic omission and distortion of data

This analysis compiles a critical mass of examples of misrepresentation of data in the Im Tirzu anti-NIF "report." A recent Keshev report underscores substantial omission of relevant data. Combined, regardless of whether they are the result...

Published 10 Feb 2010 2:32 PM by Didi Remez

Filed under: palestine, israel, gaza, Arab [Edit Tags]
Why the Ethan Bronner case matters

The story this far is that the New York Times is seriously on the defensive because the son of it's Israel correspondent, Ethan Bronner, joined the Israeli army. In the end, the Bronner story is not that significant. He will either remain in Israel...

Published 9 Feb 2010 6:00 PM by MJ Rosenberg

Filed under: palestine, israel, gaza, US, MJ Rosenberg [Edit Tags]
Inevitable: New republic calls former editor Andrew Sullivan an anti-semite

I knew that Andrew Sullivan's abandonment of the hard right position on Israel was driving his old buds at the New Republic crazy. Andrew was once TNR's wunderkind, the youngest editor in its history. Smart, hunky, and a gentile Zionist. (Sullivan...

Published 9 Feb 2010 10:57 AM by MJ Rosenberg

Filed under: israel, gaza [Edit Tags]
Contextualizing the JPost and Chazan: You can’t have it both ways

The firing of Naomi Chazan by The Jerusalem Post has quickly turned the newspaper into a convenient (and attractive) punching bag for the many in Israel and among Jewish-Americans angry and indignant over the anti-NIF smear campaign. Indeed, its conduct...

Published 7 Feb 2010 10:44 PM by Didi Remez

Filed under: palestine, israel, gaza [Edit Tags]
Whitewashing Israeli actions

Much as the world has responded marvellously and generously to calls to help Haitians after their devastating earthquake last month. The opposite has been true about the impoverished Palestinians in Gaza Strip who have been under an increasingly tighter...

Published 5 Feb 2010 1:29 PM by George S. Hishmeh

Filed under: israel, gaza, palestinians, haiti [Edit Tags]
Gaza to Lebanon: beware the Coming War

The Israeli military may be much less effective in winning wars than it was in the past, thanks to the stiffness of Arab resistance. But its military strategists are as shrewd and unpredictable as ever. The recent rhetoric that has escalated from Israel...

Published 4 Feb 2010 6:50 AM by Ramzy Baroud

Filed under: gaza, lebanon, war [Edit Tags]
Congrats to Egypt…and yes it’s from Gaza!

There has been a lot of talk lately that the Palestinians in Gaza hold a grudge against their Egyptian counterparts, which is untrue. A few days ago Egypt won the African cup for the third time on the row, beating the Algerian team, and as result you...

Published 1 Feb 2010 4:45 AM by Lina Al-Sharif

Filed under: gaza [Edit Tags]
Gaza Footnotes: Joe Sacco, my mom, and the 1956 Khanyounis/Rafah Massacres

I recently had the opportunity to interview cartoonist Joe Sacco about his latest work, Footnotes in Gaza, for Aljazeera English . The book is an investigation into two little-known massacres in the 1956 Gaza Strip. I say little-known because there is...

Published 31 Jan 2010 12:17 PM by Laila El-Haddad

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A dark lining in every silver cloud

There were no suicide bombings in Israel in 2009. That doesn't mean no one was killed. Media reports, including in The Jerusalem Post , note that five Israelis were killed in Israel and the West Bank last year. About 49 Israelis were wounded in attacks...

Published 31 Jan 2010 6:47 AM by Ray Hanania

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At the centre of peace efforts

As negotiators and politicians wonder who needs to do what before moving, it is clear that all good minds and good people should focus on one issue: how to resolve the conflict over Jerusalem. If the 1980s and 1990s witnessed a relatively nonviolent first...

Published 30 Jan 2010 9:46 AM by Daoud Kuttab

Filed under: gaza [Edit Tags]
Bin Laden tape connects Christmas day terrorist to Gaza occupation

Al Jazeera has a audio tape purportedly made by international terrorist Osama bin Laden in which he not only claims responsibility for the December 25, 2009. terrorist attempt against a Detroit-bound plane, but connects it to the Palestinian occupation...

Published 24 Jan 2010 9:04 AM by Eileen White Read

Filed under: gaza [Edit Tags]
Re-thinking collective punishment

Punishing the Gazans I attended a panel discussion on Gaza at the Brookings Institution last week. The panelists eloquently depicted the suffering of the more than one million Palestinians living in Gaza under the siege-like restrictions imposed by the...

Published 20 Jan 2010 3:55 PM by Michael Lame

Filed under: gaza, collective punishment, international law [Edit Tags]
How cruel is the Israeli siege on Gaza? The IDF's tweets can give an idea

I follow the IDF spokesperson on twitter (tweets are in English, btw). Every few days, there is an update there on the humanitarian aid and fuel trucks intended to pass through the Erez crossing point into Gaza. Here are some examples: Jan 14: #IDF: 108...

Published 17 Jan 2010 5:15 AM by Noam Sheizaf

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"In the end, only kindness matters"

I gave a talk at the NATO Defence College in Rome to some 82 officers and civilians from many NATO countries and affiliated or partner countries (including Egypt, UAE, Jordan, etc). An Israeli colleague who lives in London also presented his point of...

Published 16 Jan 2010 5:57 PM by Mazin Qumsiyeh

Filed under: gaza [Edit Tags]
Lift Gaza blockade now

For me, it's impossible to look at the horrific footage coming out of Haiti and not think about Gaza. Especially when I see the faces of the children. Both are scenes of horrific suffering. But there are two significant differences. The first is the...

Published 16 Jan 2010 5:31 AM by MJ Rosenberg

Filed under: gaza [Edit Tags]
Gaza: Picking up the pieces

A year ago, the world watched in horror as bombs fell on homes, shops, clinics and schools in Gaza, shattering lives and hope for so many families there. The plight of Gazans today no longer dominates the news but their suffering has not ended. Neither...

Published 15 Jan 2010 11:12 AM by Bill Corcoran

Filed under: gaza [Edit Tags]
An Odyssey for justice

The recent actions of people from around the world in support of the Palestinian people in Gaza have arguably represented the closest manifestation of international solidarity since the International Brigades against fascism during the Spanish Civil War...

Published 15 Jan 2010 5:30 AM by Ramzy Baroud

Filed under: gaza, Gaza war [Edit Tags]
Obama must put pressure on Israel

The US president has tried the carrot - it may be time for the stick. Barack Obama does not want to resort to using the stick, although this approach has been effective in the past, especially in settling Arab-Israeli disputes. This was pointed out by...

Published 15 Jan 2010 4:40 AM by George S. Hishmeh

Filed under: gaza, hamas [Edit Tags]
Changing tides — overview of 2009 in Palestine

People are always asking me, "How are things in Palestine? How have things changed since you were there last?" Well, violence is down in the West Bank, and a few major checkpoints have been opened for longer periods than usual. Buildings are...

Published 15 Jan 2010 4:23 AM by Pamela Olson

Filed under: gaza, hamas [Edit Tags]
Gaza Freedom March

Something exciting has been happening in Egypt this holiday season. Around 1,400 people from all over the world — traveling at their own expense, or through fund-raising drives in their communities — converged on Cairo to travel to the Gaza...

Published 5 Jan 2010 12:32 PM by Pamela Olson

Filed under: gaza [Edit Tags]
Israel prepares new Gaza war in new year

Brad Burston of Ha'aretz has it exactly right. Meanwhile TIME's Tony Karon writes in "The National" that Israel is planning another Gaza war for 2010. Apparently, despite the horrific damage inflicted, Israelis view the war as a draw...

Published 1 Jan 2010 6:57 AM by MJ Rosenberg

Filed under: gaza [Edit Tags]
A year later, Gaza and Israel both under siege

BEIRUT -- A year after the Israeli attack on Gaza, a scorecard of "winners and losers" suggests that nobody won anything, but Israel has probably suffered political losses that it could not have envisioned when it decided to invade Gaza. I count...

Published 26 Dec 2009 3:09 AM by Rami G. Khouri

Filed under: gaza, goldstone report [Edit Tags]
Berman skeptical about Afghan war--what about Israel's wars?

"I'm not as prone to jumping into wars as I used to be." That is what Howard Berman, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee said about President Obama's Afghanistan strategy. It's a good sentiment. The less prone we are...

Published 4 Dec 2009 8:36 AM by MJ Rosenberg

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