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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

Filed under: palestine, gaza [Edit Tags]
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

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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

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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

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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

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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

Filed under: gaza [Edit Tags]
The Saudi-Iranian neo cold war

It's been four months since I described Yemen as a powder keg ready to explode. At the time the entire world was riveted to the television, watching the unfolding events of the "Velvet Revolution" in Iran. The Yemeni keg has since exploded...

Published 15 Nov 2009 5:35 AM by Jamal Dajani

Filed under: gaza [Edit Tags]
Rep. Ellison blasts Goldstone vote

By a 344-36 vote (22 voting "present"), the House of Representatives condemned the so-called Goldstone report, which found that both Israel and Hamas committed war crimes in Gaza. (See how your representative voted here). The resolution basically...

Published 4 Nov 2009 5:52 PM by MJ Rosenberg

Filed under: gaza, goldstone report, J street, AIPAC, Congress, John Nichols [Edit Tags]
Young man from Gaza describes horrors of occupation

Between sessions at the amazing J Street conference, people mill around talking to friends and, sometimes, just a person standing near by. I was lucky enough to find myself talking to a young man from Gaza, in Washington for the conference. He is not...

Published 27 Oct 2009 11:02 PM by MJ Rosenberg

Filed under: gaza [Edit Tags]
America and Israel: United Behind Hamas

It is now common knowledge that, from the time of Hamas's formation, the Israeli government played a major role in building it up as a "safer" alternative to Fatah. In the 1970's and 1980's, successive Israeli governments feared...

Published 5 Oct 2009 10:36 AM by MJ Rosenberg

Filed under: israel, gaza, hamas, palestinians, fatah, US [Edit Tags]
Israel diary: voices of peace, stories of conflict

The following was originally posted on Arianna Huffington's blog at the Huffington Post. My last day in Israel was a whirlwind of visits, as I tried to pack as much in as I could before having to head back home. First stop was breakfast with Dror...

Published 29 Sep 2009 4:48 AM by Arianna Huffington

Filed under: palestine, israel, gaza, West Bank, breaking the silence, operation cast lead, winter military incursion [Edit Tags]
The Loneliest Man in the World

Izzeldine Abuelaish could be the loneliest man on earth. A Palestinian father who lost three daughters when Israeli shells struck their home in Gaza two days before a cease-fire ended the war between Israel and Hamas, he seems to be the only person left...

Published 29 Sep 2009 2:57 AM by Mona Eltahawy

Filed under: israel, gaza, hamas [Edit Tags]
In Gaza, Hamas sponsors an engagement party for blind men

The engagement party for the dozens of blind and partially-sighted Palestinians men in Gaza included a band of marching boy scouts, singing girls in white dresses and a man dancing in a monkey suit. The 38 men stood on a stage while their fiancées...

Published 9 Sep 2009 5:29 PM by Nidal Aly

Filed under: palestine, gaza, palestinian territories, hamas [Edit Tags]

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