Category: The Middle East

We don’t care so much about the Palestinians, do we?

Eight hundred dead Palestinians. But Israel has impunity By Robert Fisk, Friday 25 July 2014   Impunity is the word that comes to mind. Eight hundred dead Palestinians. Eight hundred. That’s infinitely more than twice the total dead of flight MH17 over Ukraine. And if you refer only to the “innocent” dead – ie no …

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Even Hitler was a child

Images from Gaza should trouble every Israeli By Gideon Levy, Jul. 24, 2014 8:50 AM   That’s the number, as of Wednesday: 155 children. On Wednesday morning, another three were killed. Ten children per day, on average. According to the UN, it’s more than the number of Hamas combatants that were killed. The Al Mezan …

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Our very own version of Somalia

Reaping what we have sown in Gaza By Amira Hass, Jul. 21, 2014 5:42 AM   I’ve already raised the white flag. I’ve stopped searching the dictionary for the word to describe half of a boy’s missing head while his father screams “Wake up, wake up, I bought you a toy!” How did Angela Merkel, …

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The problem at its core

The heart of the problem with Israel: The mass expulsion of the Palestinian people By Donna Nevel, July 19, 2014   As Israeli government violence against the Palestinians in Gaza intensifies (the latest news being an aggressive ground invasion), I saw a discussion on-line about whether Israel has become more brutal or the brutality has …

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Complicity with aggression and oppression

Israel-Gaza conflict: Medical charity official likens job to ‘patching up torture victims in an open-air prison’ By Robert Fisk, Thursday 17 July 2014   In an unprecedented criticism of the Israeli siege of Gaza, a senior official in the Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) humanitarian charity has described his organisation’s work among the 1.8 million besieged …

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It’s about land

The true Gaza back-story that the Israelis aren’t telling this week By Robert Fisk, Wednesday 9 July 2014   OK, so by this afternoon, the exchange rate of death in two days was 40-0 in favour of Israel. But now for the Gaza story you won’t be hearing from anyone else in the next few …

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One law for Jews and another for Arabs

Our wretched Jewish state By Gideon Levy, Jul. 6, 2014 5:34 AM   The youths of the Jewish state are attacking Palestinians in the streets of Jerusalem, just like gentile youths used to attack Jews in the streets of Europe. The Israelis of the Jewish state are rampaging on social networks, displaying hatred and a …

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