Archive for January, 2008
Annapolis on the ground
‘The Yemin Yehuda non-profit association has begun building 200 housing units in the Shimon Hatzaddik compound, in the heart of East Jerusalem’s Sheikh Jarra neighborhood. In the process, the organization intends to demolish the homes of dozens of Palestinian families who live there.
This neighborhood is in a strategic location: If Yemin Yehuda completes its plan, [...]
Filed under: Israeli / Palestinian, News and politics | 7 Comments
Tags: "peace process", Annapolis, East Jerusalem, settlements
The Winograd whitewash
The Winograd Committee today released its full, 610-page investigation into Israel’s political and military conduct during the 2006 Lebanon war. The interim report was published last May (I wrote about it here), and judging from reports in the Israeli press the complete version makes similar points.
Essentially, the report concludes that the Israeli political leadership [...]
Filed under: Israeli / Palestinian, Lebanon, News and politics | 1 Comment
Tags: "purity of arms", Human Rights, IDF, Lebanon war, Terrorism, War, Winograd Committee
Finkelstein rocks the LSE
I’ve been meaning to post a write-up of Norman Finkelstein’s talk at the LSE last Wednesday for a while now, but being a slothful creature I never got round to doing so. Luckily, a video of the talk (see below) has now been uploaded to the ‘net, which means I’ve got a lot less writing [...]
Filed under: Activism, European Union, Israeli / Palestinian, UK, US, Videos | 13 Comments
Tags: LSE, Norman Finkelstein, organising
What humanitarian crisis?
This is a useful little lesson in why it is generally a bad idea to trust the Israeli government. You may recall that earlier this month, as the siege of Gaza reached its peak and Israel blocked the transfer of even basic humanitarian necessities like food and medicine, Israeli officials came out and proclaimed that [...]
Filed under: Israeli / Palestinian, News and politics, US | 5 Comments
Tags: collective punishment, Dennis Kucinich, Gaza, Human Rights, humanitarian, Islamophobia, siege
No walls, please
A plan to build 9.95 meter high steel wall (or should that be “security fence”?) around the Jerusalem residence of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has been rejected on the grounds that it would inflict damage on the “nature of the neighbourhood” and block the view to a near-by historical site.
“We were afraid of the [...]
Filed under: Israeli / Palestinian, News and politics | 2 Comments
Tags: wall
BBC ‘vehemently anti-Chavez’
I think this BBC piece on Chavez, published today, is a useful illustration of how an apparently objective article, which seems perfectly impartial at first glance, is in fact skewed both by its acceptance of the terminology of power and by what it leaves out – that is, what it chooses not to tell [...]
Filed under: Latin America, Media, News and politics, UK, US, Venezuela | 11 Comments
The liberation
Filed under: Israeli / Palestinian, News and politics | 2 Comments
Tags: exodus, Gaza, photography
Breaking free from Annapolis
Over half the population of the Gaza Strip has left for Egypt in the past three days, a stark illustration of the extent of the deprivation imposed on them by the Israeli government and the “international community”. When Palestinians smashed through the wall separating Gaza from Egypt earlier this week, liberating themselves from Israel’s brutal [...]
Filed under: European Union, Israeli / Palestinian, News and politics, US | 12 Comments
Tags: "peace process", Annapolis, collective punishment, Gaza, Hamas, Human Rights, Prison Break
Prison Break
It’s Prison Break, Gaza style. I haven’t the time right now to comment at length on this, although I will certainly return to it when I get the chance. For now, it suffices to say: big up the Palestinians!
“Some 200,000 Palestinians poured out of Gaza and into Egypt early Wednesday, after masked gunmen blew dozens [...]
Filed under: Activism, Israeli / Palestinian, News and politics | 13 Comments
Tags: collective punishment, Gaza, resistance, siege
Olmert on Collective Punishment
“As far as I’m concerned, all the residents of Gaza can walk and have no fuel for their cars, because they have a murderous terrorist regime that doesn’t allow people in the south of Israel to live in peace … We are trying to attack terrorists, but we also show the population that it cannot [...]
Filed under: Israeli / Palestinian, News and politics, Quote of the Day | 10 Comments
Tags: collective punishment, Ehud Olmert, Gaza, Human Rights, International Law, Terrorism
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