A Clarification My article “Israel over Gaza” has aroused, to my surprise, many reactions, including some that disagreed with my placing responsibility exclusively on Israel. In so short a piece, admittedly, it was not possible to present the comprehensive analysis of a…
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Israel over Gaza: A Campaign to Perpetuate the Occupation
Israel’s military operation called Molten Lead started on Saturday, December 27, 2008 and took more than 200 lives in its first day, much to the satisfaction of the Israeli public. Already on Friday there were cries of “Go get ’em!”…
The Third Choice
THE BLOOD still boils at the sights that came out of Gaza when Israel invaded in March. At least 107 Palestinians were killed, mostly civilians. Houses collapsed on their inhabitants. Hamas went underground, so that the “strongest army in the…
The Fading of the Two-State Solution
AFTER RETURNING from the Annapolis Conference, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told Haaretz (November 28, 2007) that “the State of Israel cannot endure unless a Palestinian state comes into being.” Olmert had made a like pronouncement in December 2003, when he was…
Economic Warfare in Gaza
NO MORE LIES lies or twisted tongues. Israel is saying at last what, in the past, it always refused to acknowledge: its war is against the Palestinian population. Until now, in discussions about the separation wall, closures, blockades, house demolition,…
Never Never Land
AFTER HAMAS was elected, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) attempted to cooperate with it. This led Israel to claim there was no one to talk to. After Hamas took over Gaza, however, Abbas officially dismissed its government and set…
The Gaza Economic Crunch
QASSAM ROCKETS hit the Israeli town of Sderot on an almost daily basis, but on September 4, 2007, at the start of the new school year, one fell beside a day-care center. That night Haim Ramon, a deputy and close…
Hamas Encounters Reality
WE’LL eat za’atar leaves, weeds and salt, but we won’t be traitors and we won’t be humiliated!” So spoke Ismail Haniyeh, the new Palestinian Prime Minister, who is thought to be among the moderate leaders of Hamas. Before a crowd…
Can’t Get Enough of Sharon
NOW that the fog has lifted from the disengagement plan in Gaza, the question remains, “Is this what the Left had in mind when it ceased to fear Sharon and began loving ‘Arik’?” Welcome to Gaza Prison. No one enters…
Two Angles on Disengagement
1. The Disaster of Others THE SIX-DAY Tearjerker: that is one way to look at Israel’s evacuation of 17 settlements in the Gaza Strip and 4 more in the northern West Bank, mid-August 2005. The event turned out to be…