Amira Hass reports in Ha’aretz: As of Sunday, the streets of Gaza are full of people fleeing – both from Sheikh Ajleen, an area with open fields and houses, where battles between Hamas gunmen and Israel Defense Forces soldiers are…
Seals are being broken all around us. A couple people have told me about startlingly honest statements by Pat Buchanan on MSNBC yesterday re Gaza. Nim Chimpsky offers this report: Pat Buchanan debated neocon Cliff May on Gaza yesterday on…
Tony Karon’s words fall like hammers in this piece saying that Israel has lost the war, that it never fixed its borders, that Nakba is intertwined with Israel’s existence, and that Palestinian resistance is completely understandable: Arafat is dead and…
Why no press in Gaza? Because Israel is acting with insanity, Holocaust-borne. AP reports that the International Red Cross/Palestinian Red Crescent only got to some houses days after they were attacked. In one case, four days later: “The ICRC/PRCS team…
New Yorker Rashid Khalidi on the Times Op-Ed page. Yes the Times op-ed page: The majority of the 1.5 million people crammed into the roughly 140 square miles of the Gaza Strip belong to families that came from towns and…
Dana Goldstein in The American Prospect: I never, as a rule, write about the Israel-Palestine conflict. I’m going to break that rule today… It’s not just that military solutions have a poor track record of solving problems of terrorism in…
Robert Fisk says 600 Palestinian dead in a week represents “atrocity on the level of the Balkan wars of the 1990s.” He’s on to something. The unkillable neocons are looking at the same violence and of course blaming Hamas and…
Habib Battah in Al-Jazeera English: The images of two women on the front page of an edition of The Washington Post last week illustrates how mainstream US media has been reporting Israel’s war on Gaza. On the left was a…
How long can American leaders hold out? Yahoo’s top story at this hour is an Agence France-Presse story headlined “Gaza civilians bearing brunt of violence…” Another sign that the media are changing: Richard Engel on NBC Nightly News tonight said…