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April 18, 2020

If Coronavirus Overwhelms Gaza, Israel Alone Is to Blame

The Palestinians of Gaza know all about lockdowns. For the past 13 years, some two million of them have endured a closure by Israel more extreme than anything experienced by almost any other society – including even now, as the world hunkers down to try to contain the Covid-19 pandemic. Israel has been carrying out an unprecedented experiment in Gaza,...

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March 27, 2020

Coronavirus Reveals Yet Again Gaza’s Endless and Normalised Suffering

Hospitals all over the western world are bracing for a tsunami of intensely ill patients suffering from breathing difficulties due to the Coronavirus. In Britain, car companies are scrambling to produce ventilators. Plans are being laid for the army to build hospitals in conference centres. In Ontario, Canada, wards are being cleared, plans are being laid, models of infection are being...

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March 15, 2020

Gaza: Murdering Children for Sport

Ayman Mohyeldin was an Egyptian reporter for al-Jazeera English who had covered dozens of major events in the Middle East for many American and other networks. His reputation was enormous, and his reporting on the Israeli assault on Gaza was such a stellar journalistic performance that NBC “aggressively pursued him to leave Al Jazeera, paying him far more than the...

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March 11, 2020

Israeli IDF Snipers Boast of Shooting ‘Ducks’ in Gaza’. Unspoken Crimes against Humanity

On March 6, 2020, a piece came out in Haaretz by Ido Glazer, featuring stories from five anonymous snipers who told how they gunned down unarmed protesters at the March of Return near the Gaza perimeter fence. These accounts are a jaw-dropper, constituting some of the most enraging as well as depressing readings I can recall. The language of the...

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February 21, 2020

Netanyahu “Optimistic” Israel Can Use Political Pressure to Shut Down ICC War Crimes Probe

Since the International Criminal Court (ICC) announced it would investigate war crimes committed by Israel in the Gaza Strip and occupied West Bank last December, Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been attempting to rally Israel’s allies in a multilateral effort to stop the ICC’s probe. Those efforts have now left Netanyahu “optimistic,” with the embattled Prime Minister reportedly telling...

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February 16, 2020

Next Intifada (II)

Read Part I here The negotiations, the Washington talks and the Oslo Accords During the First Gulf War in 1991, the Palestinians and their national organization the PLO opposed the US-led attack on Iraq. After this war, the PLO became diplomatically isolated and Kuwait and Saudi Arabia stopped to finance it and, therefore, bringing the PLO to the financial and...

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December 28, 2019

The Freedom Flotilla Will Make its 35th Attempt to Sail to Gaza in 2020

What is Gaza to us but an Israeli missile, a rudimentary rocket, a demolished home, an injured child being whisked away by his peers under a hail of bullets? On a daily basis, Gaza is conveyed to us as a bloody image or a dramatic video, none of which can truly capture the everyday reality of the Strip – its...

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December 18, 2019

Gaza 2020: How Easy It Is for the World to Delete Palestinian Pain

I would like you to try an exercise. Google the words “family of eight killed” and you will be given several options – one in Sonora, Mexico, another in Pike, Ohio, yet another in Mendocino County, California. But Google’s massive memory seems to have suffered amnesia over what took place just one month ago in Deir al-Balah, Gaza. To recap, because...

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If Coronavirus Overwhelms Gaza, Israel Alone Is to Blame

Coronavirus Reveals Yet Again Gaza’s Endless and Normalised Suffering

Gaza: Murdering Children for Sport

Israeli IDF Snipers Boast of Shooting ‘Ducks’ in Gaza’. Unspoken Crimes against Humanity

Netanyahu “Optimistic” Israel Can Use Political Pressure to Shut Down ICC War Crimes Probe

Next Intifada (II)

The Freedom Flotilla Will Make its 35th Attempt to Sail to Gaza in 2020

Gaza 2020: How Easy It Is for the World to Delete Palestinian Pain