Archive for the ‘Reading and comment’ Category
Monday, April 6th, 2009
Guardian America editor Michael Tomasky thinks he's being clever and original by asking: "why don't the Palestinians just imitate Ghandi?".
Self-satisfied liberals ask this from time to time. From Michael Moore in "Stupid White Men" to occasional Haaretz editorials. It seems every liberal who asks this thinks they are the ...
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Monday, July 9th, 2007
The recent hostilities between Palestinian factions Hamas and Fatah in Gaza and the West Bank have been presented in the media as a sort of small-scale Palestinian civil war, ending (for now) with a Hamas coup in the Gaza Strip.
It is far more accurate to understand it as a ...
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Wednesday, July 19th, 2006
I was thinking of writing something on the re-invasion of Gaza (and I still might) but, really, Gideon Levy says most of what needs to be said in today's Ha'aretz.
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"A Black Flag"
by Gideon Levy, Ha'aretz 2nd July 2006
A black flag hangs over the "rolling" operation in Gaza. The more the ...
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Saturday, June 24th, 2006
I came across this cartoon on the ISM Canada website. I'm posting it here, because it sums up so well what is incorrect with the image most people have of Israel's Wall. It is NOT a "separation barrier" built between Israelis and Palestinians. It is an annexation barrier, the vast ...
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Monday, June 12th, 2006
On the 24th of May the Israeli army invaded the West Bank city of Ramallah, my current home. In the middle of the day, undercover Israeli forces performed an "arrest operation" on a Palestinian militant in the centre of Ramallah. When their cover was blown, a large force of Israeli ...
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Saturday, May 27th, 2006
Hi everyone. Apologies for the recent drying-up of my journal entries. I have several different items in the pipline, so look for something new here soon. Meanwhile, it's been far too long since my last post so you should check the ISM site for all the latest stuff that I've ...
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Saturday, April 22nd, 2006
Eyewitness accounts from a friend of mine who has been based up Nablus for the past week. Originaly published on Electrontic Intifada, with more pictures.
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Linda Spence writing from Nablus, Occupied Palestine, Live from Palestine, 21 April 2006.
Tanks and soldiers roll into Balata refugee camp during the invasion of April ...
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Monday, April 17th, 2006
In an attempt to disguise the current Israeli military operations in Nablus as a response to the suicide bombing in Tel-Aviv, the Israeli media are either directly lying that the military entered Nablus "in response to the terror attack" (Jerusalem Post) or strongly implying the same by saying the army ...
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Saturday, April 15th, 2006
Both of the following articles are from Haaretz, 15th April 2006. See this ISM digest for action you can take to stop the bombing of Gaza, along with more background information and video.
IDF enters Gaza for first time since pullout
by Amos Harel
The Israel Defense Forces yesterday entered Palestinian Authority territory ...
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Friday, April 14th, 2006
Amira Hass regularly writes brilliant and insightful reports and analysis in the Israeli press. This article is particularly good. A depressing picture, but acurate, I fear.
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Convergence to a border of convenience
Ha'aretz, 5th April 2005
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/702535.html
By Amira Hass
For the "convergence" plan to be presented to the Western world as a giant concession ...
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Saturday, December 17th, 2005
Until recently the weekly demonstrations in the West Bank village of Bil'in seemed to be the only regular event that was keeping the non-violent intifada against the apartheid wall going (at least from the perspective of international activists in Palestine). This had a cumulative "Friday Intifada" effect - you ...
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Sunday, December 11th, 2005
Electrontic Iraq has an article by Mark LeVine that is mostly correct.
As calls for the release of the four CPT activists in Iraq (including Harmeet, my friend from ISM in January) continue to come from all quarters, it's worth taking a moment to ask why there are not more people ...
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