Darkness envelops Gaza—literally. Israel has limited the supply of electricity to two and a half hours per day. It is questionable whether there is a place in the world where people would keep quiet under such circumstances, but Gazans challenge…
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Stuck with Bibi, stuck with Occupation
“There will be nothing because there is nothing.” That is Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s response to the ongoing investigations against him. Well, there will be something because there is something. Gifts received by Bibi Netanyahu and his family were “given”…
The West Bank – Gaza Divorce
The Knesset was frantic over the latest flotilla sailing toward Gaza, especially because Knesset Member Basel Ghattas of the Joint Arab List was on board. The purpose, he said, was to draw attention to the siege on the Gaza Strip…
Erdogan and Israel: Glitch or Rupture?
The crisis in the relationship between Israel and Turkey reached a head following the IDF raid on the flotilla to Gaza at the end of last May, during which nine IHH activists were killed. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan…
After the Flotilla: A Survey of the Regional and Local Situation
The following article is taken from the quarterly report by Yacov Ben Efrat, General Secretary of the Organization for Democratic Action (Da’am), to the ODA’s Central Committee on July 25, 2010. The international reaction to the killing of nine activists…
Guide to Ending the Siege of Gaza
The IDF takeover of the Turkish humanitarian flotilla has shaken everything up. Israel finds itself blockaded too: an unprecedented international diplomatic siege. An apparently local incident lacking any military or political importance has turned into an entanglement of far-reaching strategic…
After the Flotilla of Blood: No More Excuses for Israel
Israel’s attempt to divert argument away from its blockade on Gaza, and over to the resistance that its troops encountered while attacking the Blue Marmara, is futile and grotesque. Let’s suppose for a moment that its commandos were attacked, as…
Noxious Comparisons
The Holocaust in Israeli Political Discourse It is taboo in Israel to compare the suffering of the Palestinians with that of the Jews in the holocaust. Anyone who does so is at once ostracized. The latest is film director and…
What’s at Stake in the Deal for Gilad Shalit
The video of kidnapped soldier Gilad Shalit ruled the ratings on the eve of the Sukkoth festival, sparking off a weekend of analyses as commentators studied each frame of the two-minute forty-second Shalit clip that Hamas released in exchange for…
War Crimes in Gaza
Exposed by the Guardian The going isn’t easy for an army of war criminals in the 21st century. You can keep the media out of the war zone. You can requisition soldiers’ cell phones before sending them into action. You can…