War on Gaza

Video: The cost of Israel’s war on Gaza

by News Sources 02.10.2013
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Just war moral philosophy and the 2008–09 Israeli campaign in Gaza

by News Sources 10.06.2012

In a 37-page article for the journal International Security, Jerome Slater writes: Scholars and policymakers regard the Israeli-Palestinian conºict as one of the most serious and intractable conflicts in today’s world. In particular, there continues to be fierce controversy over the most recent large-scale Israeli military action in that conflict: the three-week attack on Gaza [...]

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Gaza massacre: IDF investigates itself — discovers it’s innocent

by News Sources 05.01.2012

Haaretz reports: Israel’s military prosecution announced Tuesday that no legal steps will be taken against those responsible for the killing of 21 members of the Samouni family during the 2009 Operation Cast Lead in Gaza. A letter was received by the human rights group B’Tselem from Major Dorit Tuval, Deputy Military Advocate for Operational Matters. [...]

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Video: Humanitarian crisis continues in Gaza

by News Sources 04.29.2012
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Fears over justice for Gaza victims

by News Sources 04.04.2012

A “dangerous” statement by the office of International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor that it cannot consider allegations of crimes committed during the 2008-9 Gaza conflict means Palestinian and Israeli victims seem likely to be denied justice, Amnesty International said. The Office of the Prosecutor today said that it cannot consider allegations of crimes committed during [...]

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One family in Gaza

by News Sources 12.27.2011

Jen Marlowe writes: Just months after the Israeli assault that killed 1,390 Palestinians, I visited Gaza. Among dozens of painful stories I heard, one family stood out. I spent several days with Kamal and Wafaa Awajah, playing with their children, sleeping in the tent they were living in, and filming their story. Wafaa described the [...]

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The voice of democracy frightens Israel

by Paul Woodward 08.23.2011

The creation of a Jewish state, right from the moment of its conception, was never compatible with the development of democracy. Democracy rests on the recognition of the political rights and power of dēmos, the people, and in as much as it allows for any kind of discrimination it does so by empowering the under-privileged. [...]

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The magical realism of body counts

by News Sources 06.13.2011

Muhammad Idrees Ahmad writes: A gypsy named Melquiades who died many years ago in Singapore returned to live with the family of Colonel Aureliano Buendia in Macondo, because he could no longer bear the tedium of death. These are the kinds of characters that populate Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s magnificent work One Hundred Years of Solitude. [...]

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Inside Story – Reopening Rafah

by News Sources 05.29.2011
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Egypt to open Rafah crossing permanently

by News Sources 05.25.2011

The Associated Press reports: Egypt’s decision Wednesday to end its blockade of Gaza by opening the only crossing to the Hamas-ruled Palestinian territory this weekend could ease the isolation of 1.4 million Palestinians there. It also puts the new Egyptian regime at odds with Israel, which insists on careful monitoring of people and goods entering [...]

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Goldstone has paved the path for a second Gaza war

by News Sources 04.08.2011

Gideon Levy writes: All at once the last doubts have disappeared and the question marks have become exclamation points. Dr. Ezzeldeen Abu Al-Aish wrote a short book in which he invented the killing of his three daughters. The 29 dead from the Al-Simoni family are now vacationing in the Caribbean. The white phosphorus was only [...]

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Forget Goldstone — remember Gaza

by Paul Woodward 04.04.2011

Here’s a circle that should never have been closed. The Goldstone Report, once credited with having provided a hefty shove as Israel veered towards pariah status, is now being held up by Israelis as having unintentionally demonstrated why, when the need arises, Israel will be able to launch Cast Lead Two and once again chant: [...]

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Palestine Papers: PA stonewalled the Goldstone vote

by News Sources 01.26.2011

The Palestine Papers reveal: On October 2, 2009, the UN Human Rights Council was widely expected to pass a resolution supporting the Goldstone Report, the UN’s probe of war crimes committed during Israel’s war in Gaza in December 2008 and January 2009. The Council instead agreed to delay a vote on the report until March [...]

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Gaza doctor Izzeldin Abuelaish two years after Israeli attack that killed 3 daughters & niece

by News Sources 01.20.2011
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Stop Operation Cast Lead 2: the moral shock and awe of global silence

by News Sources 12.31.2010

Richard Falk writes: It is dismaying that during this dark anniversary period two years after the launch of the deadly attacks on the people of Gaza, code-named Operation Cast Lead by the Israelis, that there should be warnings of a new massive attack on the beleaguered people of Gaza. The influential Israeli journalist, Ron Ren-Yishai, [...]

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Israel jails peaceful protester for riding a bike

by News Sources 12.27.2010

Joseph Dana writes: Of all the criminals involved with the 2008 Gaza war, an Israeli leftist will be going to jail for riding his bike against the war in Tel Aviv. Tel Aviv Magistrates court judge Yitzhak Yitzhak convicted Israeli leftist Jonathan Pollak of illegal assembly for his participation in a January 2008 Critical Mass [...]

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An open letter from Gaza: two years after the massacre, a demand for justice

by News Sources 12.27.2010

An open letter published by The Palestine Telegraph: We the Palestinians of the Besieged Gaza Strip, on this day, two years on from Israel’s genocidal attack on our families, our houses, our roads, our factories and our schools, are saying enough inaction, enough discussion, enough waiting – the time is now to hold Israel to [...]

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Wikileaks reveal Palestinian Authority’s complicity in the war on Gaza

by Paul Woodward 11.29.2010

“Israel is not the center of international attention,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu asserted shortly before the Wikileaks released a cache of 250,000 American diplomatic cables. If he was confident that that was the case, why would Bibi draw attention to the fact? Perhaps because he knew that some of the leaks would serve his interests [...]

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A message to America from Hamas

by Paul Woodward 05.30.2010

When Israeli officials are pressed to justify the fact that Israel has prevented the reconstruction of thousands of homes it destroyed during the war on Gaza, they say that if construction materials were allowed into Gaza, these would be commandeered by Hamas and used to fortify its bunkers. In an interview Khalid Meshaal, the Hamas [...]

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Masked Israeli gunmen ready to hijack Freedom Flotilla

by Paul Woodward 05.30.2010

Ynet reports: The Navy and the Israel Air Force’s observation jets are following the various vessels en route to Gaza and are prepared to first deploy the Navy’s missile ships which are docked in Haifa, and then, the rest of the forces. Navy to sail boats to Ashdod The Navy hopes it will not have [...]

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Israel: ineffective siege of Gaza must not be broken

by Paul Woodward 05.26.2010

As the Freedom Flotilla sails towards Gaza, the Israeli propaganda machine is working at full bore. In its frenzied effort, message discipline seems to have gone out of the window. 10,000 tons of supplies being carried in the nine-ship flotilla are, the Israelis suggest, superfluous to Gaza’s needs when Israel itself is delivering 15,000 tons [...]

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Freedom Flotilla carrying 10,000 tonnes of aid to Gaza

by Paul Woodward 05.25.2010

“We recommend the world send ships to the shores of Gaza, and we believe that Israel would not stop these vessels because the sea is open, and many human rights organizations have been successful in previous similar steps, and proved that breaking the siege on Gaza is possible.” John Ging, Head of United Nation’s Relief [...]

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The attacks on Goldstone

by Paul Woodward 05.15.2010

In Haaretz, Hagai El-Ad writes: What will they come up with next? The campaign to discredit Judge Richard Goldstone, his fact-finding commission and the report that now bears his name seems to reach new heights every week. The latest installment in this high-drama farce has been the revelations about Goldstone’s record during apartheid-era South Africa, [...]

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Israel’s unlawful destruction of property during Operation Cast Lead

by Paul Woodward 05.13.2010

In a press release, Human Rights Watch said today: Israel should investigate the unlawful destruction of civilian property during the 2009 Gaza hostilities and lift the blockade that hinders residents from rebuilding their homes, Human Rights Watch said in a new report released today. The 116-page report, “‘I Lost Everything’: Israel’s Unlawful Destruction of Property [...]

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