Israel’s claim that “Gaza is not undergoing a humanitarian crisis,” runs into reality:
The mysterious “Badger” over at Missing Links reports today on “The next step in Gaza: Forced evacuations of residential districts.” From this morning’s New York Times: The Israeli Army also dropped thousands of leaflets into some residential districts warning inhabitants…
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert (January 4, 2008): “Israel is not fighting Palestinians living in Gaza. They are not our enemy. They are victims of violent and cruel oppression. We will aid with food and medical supplies as any moral and…
The Israeli invasion of Gaza is turning into a rerun of a show that was horrible the first time. Comparisons to the 2006 Israeli war in Lebanon abound. One of the current story lines is whether the U.S. is working…
Ilan Pappe in the Electronic Intifada: It seems that even the most horrendous crimes, such as the genocide in Gaza, are treated as discrete events, unconnected to anything that happened in the past and not associated with any ideology or…
In their article “IDF sending Hamas a message: Now it’s personal” Ha’aretz writers Amos Harel and Avi Issacharoff explain that the assassination of senior Hamas official Nizar Rayyan on January 1 “is a significant development at this stage of the…
Ha’aretz reports: “The threat that Hamas’ ballistic capabilities pose to the people of the Negev is less serious than initially presumed and the residents of the targeted areas are not demonstrating signs of panic, according to an interim analysis by…
Adam Horowitz writes: On the day the ratio of Israelis to Palestinians killed has hit 1:100, Alan Dershowitz writes “Israel’s Policy Is Perfectly ‘Proportionate'” in the Wall Street Journal: The claim that Israel has violated the principle of proportionality –…