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palestinian journalist and blogger from gaza based in the US

Website: http://www.gazamom.com

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  • Another two-stater goes one-state
    • gazamom March 29, 2012 at 2:37 pm

      I had the same reaction when I read the Hamas quote-they weren't even around prior to 1987, and certainly not influential prior to the late 90s. For Israel, its always about absence of a "Palestinian partners"="moderate" Palestinian leadership=reliable collaborators. But back to my main point, there was also this interesting piece by Bradley Burston, in which he too, essentially, is turning one-stater (and revealing declassified documents suggesting that Begin was as well): link to haaretz.com

  • 'The Good Wife' takes on Israel/Palestine, Islamophobia and the Israel lobby
    • gazamom September 28, 2011 at 12:09 pm with 1 replies

      HI Annie-I tend to agree with the comment below. I think the writers wanted us to think the fact that he happened to Palestinian was irrelevant. Also I don't think Al-Said was creepy or opportunistic, but I think they wanted to leave us with this impression (or least with the impression by having his last words be "they kill each other" (said in a very serious, non-funny way). It was in poor taste, I thought-tje writers resorted to stereotypes after initially painting him as a proactive Muslim figure interested in changing the perception of the public vis a vis Islam. Like-if the "civilized" Muslim doesn't get his way, he'll return to his violent ways.

  • Report from the 'Mondo Awards' in Gaza
  • Lizzy Ratner and Laila El-Haddad discuss The Goldstone Report on GRITtv
    • gazamom January 21, 2011 at 8:14 am with 9 replies

      Shingo-that comment about hunting knives made me laugh out loud-quite literally (and today's my birthday, so that's a good thing!). I can't get the image out of my head now! But you are absolutely true-this is the implication, the moral army, purity of arms...

      Witty: Go check out the Likud Charter. Or the Oslo Accords. Neither mentions a Palestinian state or the intention to recognize a Palestinian state. On the contrary, the Likud Charter flatly rejects its establishment. Israel may be cleverly (or not so cleverly...) disguising its intentions through long-drawn out commitments to "processes" and the bountiful use of rosy conjectures, but make not mistake about it, they do not recognize a Palestinian State. Recent wikileaks revealed their policy (again, no surprises) is to work towards a permanent separation of the WB and Gaza.

      All of this shows why "Hamas human shielding" is an obfuscation from the real matters at hand.

    • gazamom January 20, 2011 at 11:42 am with 5 replies

      Richard-
      to address your comment, I have a I have a 4 point response to this:

      1. see Richard Silverstein's excellent blog post about the topic here: link to richardsilverstein.com
      "One of the more troublesome claims is that terrorists even debase their own religion and its holy sites in their fight against Israel. While such a claim may or may not be true, I managed to find a written source which confirmed that Jews did precisely this during the Mandatory period before the State was created. And Amir Terkel has gone one better. He’s found a historical monument that documents the practice."

      2. The overriding issue is about the illegal occupation, the illegal blockade, and the premeditated and illegal assault against Gaza. Hasbarists attempt to distract from this issue by reducing it to rocket statistics and human shielding, as though this justifies what happened (or makes it easier to condone what happened).

      2. The Goldstone commission attempted and failed to find evidence of human shielding in Gaza in his report: The Goldstone Report states that its authors “found no evidence that Palestinian combatants mingled with the civilian population with the intention of shielding themselves from attack.” He did find evidence that Israeli used civilians as human shields. I myself have heard eyewitness testimony to this end.

      3. The lines of civilian and combatant in Gaza is MUCH more blurred than, say, within the Israeli Army, considering Gaza/Palestine does not have an official army, and considering that many men may have dual jobs-they may serve as police officers (include traffic officers) whom Israel considered combatants) but also work construction for example or as shopkeepers and so forth.

  • Terrorist or pianist?
    • gazamom January 16, 2011 at 12:04 am with 2 replies

      Ibrahim Al-Najjar is my hero-I have known him since 1997 when he had a fledging school in another part of Gaza City; demand grew and so did the school. It moved to a building in Tel Al-Hawa that was completely incinerated during the assault on Gaza by Israeli missiles-not once, but twice. He had to move, but the Qattan Foundation stepped in to fund the new school! My son took piano lessons with him too-and do not fear Jehan, he teaches young and old (I took Oud classes with him back when I was 20, but so did a 65 year old woman...!)

      Wrote about him here this past summer:

      link to gazamom.com

  • Gaza's Social Network: Gazan bloggers share the reality of the siege with the world
    • gazamom December 20, 2010 at 11:26 pm

      Look for the complete article on Gaza's social network very soon on Aljazeera! It was a real pleasure to meet Bashar, Sameeha, and the rest of the group this summer

  • NYT op-ed page has run 0, count em zero, Palestinian authors since flotilla attack
    • gazamom June 17, 2010 at 9:53 pm

      I submitted an op-ed to the NY Times the day after the flotilla attack. It was rejected, but ultimately published by the Baltimore Sun. I assumed they had higher profile Palestinian authors so I am shocked to hear they did not in fact publish a single Palestinian-authored oped, though not surprised.

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