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Was Hamas the Work of the Israeli Mossad? By Ramzy Baroud
While various Western governments are struggling to define a possible relationship with the Palestinian movement Hamas, some progressive and leftist circles are also uneasy regarding their own perception of the Islamic movement. Continue reading
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Media Lens: The BBC, Impartiality, And The Hidden Logic Of Massacre — Part 2
Despite the input of hundreds of journalists working for numerous large, well-resourced corporations, we were unable to find a mainstream account that made sense of what was happening in Gaza. Continue reading
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The Crisis in Gaza: An Interview with Gilbert Achcar
I wish very much that some Palestinian left-wing force could emerge as a real major player on the scene. Continue reading
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The Gaza Bombshell By David Rose
After failing to anticipate Hamas’s victory over Fatah in the 2006 Palestinian election, the White House cooked up yet another scandalously covert and self-defeating Middle East debacle: part Iran-contra, part Bay of Pigs. Continue reading
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Israel's Message to Iran By Shourideh C. Molavi
But Israel’s military attack does not only affect the ‘Palestinian problem’ but has widespread regional implications for any future political or military engagement with Iran. Continue reading
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Birth Pangs of a New Palestine by Mouin Rabbani
Two issues rise head and shoulders above the rest: the urgency of beginning the process of reversing Israel’s impunity in its dealings with the Palestinian people, and the equally dire need to address the fundamental issue of occupation, without which ceasefires, sieges and code-named calamities like Operation Cast Lead would be unnecessary. Continue reading
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Muriel Mirak-Weissbach: If the Target is Iran Israel’s Latest Gamble May Backfire
The Israelis have argued that the offensive was launched in response to eight years’ of relentless attacks by Hamas rockets into Israel. But then, one asks: why now? Why should they wait eight years? Continue reading
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Muriel Mirak-Weissbach: If the Target is Iran Israel's Latest Gamble May Backfire
The Israelis have argued that the offensive was launched in response to eight years’ of relentless attacks by Hamas rockets into Israel. But then, one asks: why now? Why should they wait eight years? Continue reading
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Media Lens: An Eye For An Eyelash: The Gaza Massacre – Part 1
The corporate media has been happy to echo the claim that Israel is “targeting Hamas” rather than the Palestinian people. In reality, the Palestinian people elected Hamas as its democratic government in 2006. Continue reading
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The obscenity that is the state of Israel By William Bowles
The war, if that’s what it can be called as in reality it’s remote-controlled slaughter, is as much a propaganda war in true Goebellian fashion, a war that is being conducted in the homes of the so-called developed world through the electronic and print media. For without the complicity of our political class and state/corporate… Continue reading
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No place to run, no place to hide By William Bowles
It is directly because of ‘journalism’ like Bowen’s that we have no understanding of our Palestinian brothers and sisters’ situation, where, according to Bowen resistance to Israeli slaughter comes not from a proud people defending what’s left of their homeland but from religious fanatics. Continue reading
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Haaretz: Israel destroys Islamic University in Gaza
Calling the Islamic University a “key center of Hamas power” to justify its destruction is like calling the Hebrew University a key center of Israeli power and, by that, justifying blowing it up! Continue reading
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AIC Condemns Deadly Attacks on Gaza, Calls for Civil Society Mobilization, International Sanctions
The Alternative Information Center (AIC) condemns today’s deadly attack by the Israeli Air Force on the Gaza Strip, which resulted in the killing of (at this moment) over 150 Palestinians. The AIC calls on social movements throughout the world to mobilize against these Israeli war crimes and demands that the international community implement sanctions against… Continue reading
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International Witnesses speak out from Gaza
At the time of the attacks I was on Omar Mukhtar street and witnessed a last rocket hit the street 150 meters away where crowds had already gathered to try to extract the dead bodies. Ambulances, trucks, cars – anything that can move is bringing injured to the hospitals. Hospitals have had to evacuate sick… Continue reading
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Ali Abunimah: Gaza massacres must spur us to action
“I will play music and celebrate what the Israeli air force is doing.” Those were the words, spoken on Al Jazeera today by Ofer Shmerling, an Israeli civil defense official in the Sderot area adjacent to Gaza, as images of Israel’s latest massacres were broadcast around the world. Continue reading
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Palestine: Collectively Punished by Israel and Collectively Punished by the media By William Bowles
22 January 2008 “No general penalty, pecuniary or otherwise, shall be inflicted upon the population on account of the acts of individuals for which they cannot be regarded as jointly and severally responsible.” — Laws and Customs of War on Land (Hague IV); October 18, 1907, Article 50″ Continue reading
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