Egypt Fleshes out Hamas-Israel Truce Deal
Egyptian mediators have begun separate talks with Hamas and with Israel to flesh out details of a ceasefire agreed last week that ended eight days of fighting in the Gaza Strip. An Egyptian official told […]
Month: November 2012
Hamas Chief Announces Support for UN Bid
Hamas chief-in-exile Khalid Mashaal telephoned President Mahmoud Abbas on Monday to confirm the Islamist movements’ support for the upcoming UN bid, the official news agency Wafa reported. Hamas reiterated Mashaal’s call in a statement stressing […]
Journals of a Blind Rescuer: An Account of War and Survival in the Gaza Strip
By Ahmed G. Ferwana – Gaza Smiling out of exhaustion as I wished a nice weekend to my colleagues and students, I left the American International School of Gaza – AISG, where I work as […]
Israeli Military Might at a Cul-De-Sac
By Iqbal Jassat The defining moment that stood out in vindication of Hamas’ triumph over Israel was when its leader Khaled Meshal presided at a global press conference signaling Israel’s embarrassing defeat. That its a […]
To the Children of Syria – A Poem
(from my safe distance) By Nasser Barghouty In whose name they allow themselves to hurt you? To what end? To what beginning? Have they said as much to you? Have they counted your tears? Have […]
Argo and The Iranian Savage – A Film Review
By Sarah Gillespie – London It is a rather curious time for Hollywood to launch a blockbuster movie based on the worst US/Iranian diplomatic fallout in history. Currently Iran is threatened with attack from the […]
Gaza’s Courage under Fire Puts a Brake on Israeli Ambition
By Stuart Littlewood Israel’s latest onslaught has spectacularly backfired. First, the courage and resilience of the Palestinians in Gaza has won the hearts and minds of the world. In Stephen Lendman’s words, “we’re all Gazans […]
Gaza: The ‘International Community’ Also Lies Buried
By Felicity Arbuthnot – London “Light the fire so I can see my tears On the night of the massacre …” — Samih al-Qasim, 1939 – present It was that “pinpoint accuracy”, “surgical strike” stuff […]
Hamas Leader Expects Iran Support to Grow
A senior Hamas official in the Gaza Strip said on Saturday the group will continue to procure weapons after its ceasefire with Israel, and he expects support from Iran to the movement to grow further. […]
Israel Eases Some Gaza Border Restrictions
Gaza residents say that Israel has eased some border restrictions as part of its ceasefire with the Palestinian territory’s Hamas government, allowing farmers to visit land near its security fence and letting fishermen head further […]
Gaza Ceasefire: An Early Assessment
By Richard Falk The Gaza Ceasefire, unlike a similar ceasefire achieved after Operation Cast Lead four years ago, is an event that has a likely significance far beyond ending the violence after eight days of […]
Hamas Deploys at Gaza Border after Israel Kills Palestinian
The Hamas government in Gaza has deployed security forces near the border with Israel after two shooting incidents in the aftermath of Wednesday’s ceasefire. A Reuters photographer and other witnesses said Hamas officials, coming closer […]
From under the Bombs: Catastrophe and Hope in Gaza
By Ayah Abubasheer – Gaza Since the beginning of Israel’s ‘Operation Pillar of Defence,’ the number of Palestinians killed or injured has risen dramatically. How harsh, I feel, to use the word “number” since we […]
Man Shot Dead in Gaza-Israel Buffer Zone
One Palestinian has been killed and at least 10 others have been wounded after Israeli soldiers, stationed at the border line between the Gaza Strip and Israel, opened fire on them, medical sources say. Health […]
War on Gaza and the Winds of Change
By Shafiq Morton – Cape Town, South Africa Israel’s Operation Pillar of Defence in Gaza may be over, but the biggest issue of all – the Palestinian-Israeli conflict – still remains unresolved. With the Oslo […]
True Lies behind Operation Pillar of Defense
By Ershad Abubacker The first casualty in any war is Truth, and the latest escalation in violence between Israel and Gaza was no different. Israel and the mainstream media fed by it repeated the rhetoric […]
Israel Demonstrates Limits of Its Muscularity in Gaza
By Dina Jadallah The war on Gaza combines the characteristic drastic brutality towards Palestinians and Arabs that Israel periodically demonstrates with the lack of effectiveness in achieving its stated goals that those who follow and […]
Israel Metaphorically Defeated in Gaza
By Ismail Salami – Tehran At a time when the beleaguered Gaza became haunted by Israeli bombs and the innocent women and children were brutally killed by Israelis, US President Barrack Obama together with Secretary […]
Home Sick and Other Poems
Home Sick By Hamzeh Ibrahim In pursuit of my true home, the green earth I roam, the dirt that lies beneath my feet doesn’t feel like home. I roam, I roam for a better path, […]
Medics: Israeli Gunfire Injures Palestinian in Gaza
Israeli forces shot and injured a Palestinian man east of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip late Thursday after he approached a fence on the border, medics said. The incident occurred less than 24 […]
Killing before the Calm: Israeli Attacks on Palestinian Civilians Escalated before Cease-fire
By Eva Bartlett – Gaza Nov 21, al Aqsa hospital, Deir al Balah. At approximately 2pm, Mubarak Ibrahim Abu Houly, 24, was walking among the olive trees on his land when the drone hit him, […]
Rebuilding the Palestinian National Movement: Interview with Awad Abdel Fattah
By Jonathan Cook ‘It’s time for Palestinians in Israel to stand firm against the Bantustan plan of Oslo’ The following interview was conducted in Nazareth with Awad Abdel Fattah, secretary general of the National Democratic […]
Israel Remains Careless in Gaza’s Fourth-Generation War
By James Gundun – Washington D.C. Israel’s fresh bombardment of Gaza and its political aftershocks have reinforced a maddening status quo: Hamas’s armed resistance cannot reverse Israel’s statehood, IDF operations cannot physically destroy Hamas’s resistance, […]
And after the Ceasefire: More Rewards for Israel
By Stuart Littlewood In 2009 when Israel’s 22-day blitzkrieg was over, nearly 1,400 Palestinians had been wiped off the planet of whom four-fifths were civilians and 350 children, and over 5,000 wounded. Israel had destroyed […]
War and Peace Incompatible
By Jamal Kanj Israel’s wars on Gaza have not ceased since Palestinians exercised their free, democratic election in 2006. The relentless warfare has alternated between bloody and muted, but let’s clarify some distortions. Contradictory to […]
Reflections on the Hamas-Israel Ceasefire
By Mohammed S. AlNadi Following the news of an imminent ceasefire, I was waiting impatiently for that moment—9 pm local time (1900 GMT)—when ceasefire would be announced. It was still 08: 25, but I kept […]
A Conversation about Palestine
By Samir Bennis – New York As I was leaving my office on Thursday evening, I passed by a demonstration in front of the Israeli Mission to the United Nations. I stopped by and exchanged […]
Gaza: The Morning After
By Richard Lightbown Let there be no illusions about this article. It is being written from the comfort of a computer armchair more than a thousand miles away from the conflicts of the Middle East. […]
Fatah, Hamas Urge Unity at Gaza Rallies
In a rare display of unity, leaders of Hamas, Fatah and other Palestinian factions on Thursday celebrated the end of the war on Gaza and called for parties to end the split with the West […]
Once And For All!
By Uri Avnery The mantra of this round was Once And For All. “We must put an end to this (the rockets, Hamas, the Palestinians, the Arabs?) Once and For All!” – this cry from […]
