Archive for the ‘Palestine/Israel’ Category
Tuesday, January 5th, 2010
Originally published on Electronic Intifada.
Asa Winstanley, The Electronic Intifada, 4 January 2010
A scene from To Gaza with Love.
To Gaza with Love is a documentary by Aki Nawaz for Iran's English-language channel Press TV. It is an account of the first boats that successfully broke the siege of Gaza in August 2008. The ...
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Tuesday, October 13th, 2009
Originally published on Electronic Intifada.
Asa Winstanley, The Electronic Intifada, 13 October 2009
In his new book The Making of a Human Bomb: An Ethnography of Palestinian Resistance, Nasser Abufarha examines the phenomena of Palestinian suicide operations. It is based on extensive fieldwork conducted in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, mostly in and ...
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Saturday, August 15th, 2009
Originally published in Electronic Intifada.
By Asa Winstanley, The Electronic Intifada, 14 August 2009
The international campaign of boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) against Israel has won several important victories in recent months. At this summer's trade union conferences in Britain, BDS activists have made significant progress.
While the campaign ...
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Tuesday, August 4th, 2009
This book is an excellent "guide for the perplexed". It is perfect for those new to the subject. I personally will be buying copies and foisting it on friends and relatives. At the same time I was surprised how much a learned from it (particularly about the Palestinian citizens of ...
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Monday, June 15th, 2009
Originally published in Electronic Intifada.
Asa Winstanley writing from the United Kingdom, Live from Palestine, 12 June 2009
Taking the first bus of the day, my wife and I arrived on the Israeli side of the King Hussein bridge crossing into the West Bank from Jordan. We explained that we were ...
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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, March 9th, 2009
A pretty dry, academic account of (surprise surprise) US policy towards the Israeli occupation of Palestinian and other Arab lands in 1948 and 1967 (with a focus on the status of Jerusalem in 1948). It's a sound summary of the official US documentary record, supported by various memoirs etc. Its ...
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Monday, March 9th, 2009
An excellent sequel to "Israel/Palestine: How to End the War of 1948". Here Reinhart argues that the correct way to understand the 2005 Israeli redeployment from Gaza (the much vaunted "disengagement") is in the context of massive US pressure behind the scenes, even rising to the level of military sanctions. ...
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Monday, March 9th, 2009
The late and much missed Tanya Reinhart wrote this 2002 analysis at height of the second intifada during the darkest days of the violence. It is extremely solid and many of her arguments here have been borne out by more recent events. Although one should always be wary of making ...
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Monday, March 9th, 2009
This is really disappointing. I've long respected Amira Hass' reporting from the occupied West Bank and Gaza. And there's is no question that, as the only Israeli reporting regularly from Palestine these are historically important news reports, taking us through some of the darkest moments of the second intifada.However, in ...
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Monday, March 9th, 2009
Hm. I'm in two minds about this one. Reading it, I couldn't shake the feeling that it was rushed out in the wake of the January 2006 Hamas election victory -- an attempt by Pluto Press to make a quick buck. It reads somewhat like a first draft in places, ...
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Thursday, August 23rd, 2007
I seem to be somehow attractive to CNN. The producers of this three-part CNN documentary currently airing in the US bought the above photo of mine for use in the "Jewish Warriors" part which was on last night. I took the photo in Hebron back in 2005. You can read ...
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