Time to remind ourselves of Britain’s unhelpful legacy to the Palestinians By Yasmin Alibhai Brown, Sunday 18 November 2012 You’ve seen the pictures, read about the bloodshed, heard the accusations. The military head of Hamas was assassinated by Israel in Gaza. Rockets fired in retaliation killed three Israelis and Israel then went into overkill. …
Category: The Middle East
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Nov 18 2012
For 64 years
As the ‘gates of hell’ open once more in the Middle East, these old journalistic clichés won’t do By Robert Fisk, Sunday 18 November 2012 Terror, terror, terror, terror, terror. Here we go again. Israel is going to “root out Palestinian terror” – which it has been claiming to do, unsuccessfully, for 64 years …
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Nov 17 2012
To break the Palestinians
A Pillar Built on Sand By John Mearsheimer, 16 November 2012 In response to a recent upsurge in tit for tat strikes between Israel and the Palestinians in Gaza, Israel decided to ratchet up the violence even further by assassinating Hamas’s military chief, Ahmad Jabari. Hamas, which had been playing a minor role in …
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Nov 16 2012
Our chances of survival
Life goes on in Gaza, where no place is safe By Samah Sabawi, November 17, 2012 12:00AM A bomb falls close to our neighbourhood in Gaza; I check Facebook to see if everyone has survived. A young cousin, Nihal, writes in her status: “Shoot, I should have had my nap earlier today, didn’t know it …
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Nov 16 2012
Kook
We Are Seeing Moshiach in Action! By Tzvi Fishman, November 15th, 2012 The Pillar of Cloud, otherwise known as the Clouds of Glory, or Amud HaAnan, protected the Jewish People in the Wilderness, and the “Amud HaAnan” Operation which Tzahal has now undertaken is intended to protect our beleaguered citizens in the south. But …
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Nov 13 2012
They returned a new son to us
Before the 1967 lines retire, too By Akiva Eldar, Nov.13, 2012 4:33 AM On Saturday afternoon light rain greeted the long column of cars crawling through the narrow lanes of the Palestinian village of Jayus in the heart of the northern West Bank. At the head of the column was a battered truck dragging …
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Nov 12 2012
But when will that be?
The Israeli documentary putting military rule in Palestine on trial By Rachel Shabi, Monday 12 November 2012 07.05 EST The Law In These Parts, an Israeli documentary awarded this year’s Sundance World Cinema Grand Jury prize, examines how the country created a military-legal system to control the Palestinians in the lands Israel occupied in …
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