Dr. Eyad Al Sarraj writing in the Guardian: The bombing went on for about 10 minutes. It was like an earthquake on top of your head. The windows were shaking and squeaking. My 10-year-old was terrified, he was jumping from…
Safa Joudeh writes from Gaza City to a Palestinian friend in the U.S.: It was just before noon when I heard the first explosion. I rushed to my window, barely did I get there and look out when I was…
US Campaign to End the Occupation urges you to get in touch with your congressman, senator, and President-Elect.
These eyewitness accounts were sent out by the Free Gaza Movement: “At the time of the attacks I was on Omar Mukhtar street and witnessed a last rocket hit the street 150 meters away where crowds had already gathered to…
Remember how the west condemned Russia’s attacks on South Ossetia in Georgia? What is the Israeli policy in Gaza? Here is John Mearsheimer writing two weeks ago on TPM: As [Avraham] Burg makes clear in his book, today’s Israelis are…
Adam Horowitz writes: At left is a Reuters photo of a Gaza man grieving over the killing of his son. From the Times: “Dr. Muawiya Hassanein, the head of emergency services at the Gaza Ministry of Health, said at least…
My friend Hannah Mermelstein has filed this piece from Palestine saying that the “civil war” between Israel and the settlers masks the true source of the conflict, a landgrab that goes back 60 years. The settlers say, What’s the difference…
It’s no fun to be marginalized. Let me tell you. The same week that American Enterprise Institute began purging the neoconservatives, and a few weeks after the plug was pulled on the New York Sun, the Forward allows the neocons…
Yesterday I heard Robert Siegel of NPR doing two Christmas stories. One was about NORAD tracking Santa’s movements, as it does every year. And in another story he signed off by saying, “Happy Christmas.” Siegel is of my generation: a…