Traduit par Rochelle Cohen Le Mercredi 8 Juillet marquait une année après le début de la guerre à Gaza, qui a coûté 2.200 morts palestiniens et 73 morts israéliens. Des deux côtés de la barrière qui sépare les israéliens des palestiniens, deux femmes locales, Mousheera Jammal et (dans un article connexe) Janet Svirzenski, partagent leur…
Wednesday 8 July marks one year since the beginning of the war in Gaza, which claimed 2,200 Palestinian and 73 Israeli lives. On two sides of the fence that separates Israelis from Palestinians, two local women, Mousheera Jammal and (in a related story) Janet Svirzenski, share their take on what happened and why. “I am…
Israel: War Crimes? Us??? By Uri Avnery “WAR IS HELL!” the US general George Patton famously exclaimed. War is the business of killing the “enemy”, in order to impose your will on them. Therefore, “humane war” is an oxymoron. War itself is a crime. There are few exceptions. I would exempt the war against Nazi…
If Americans Knew is a website I will regularly recommend to people [especially Americans] who have the humility, grace and guts to ask me “what is really going on” in Palestine. It is therefore, with inestimable disgust, that I read of JVP’s treatment and ostracism of Alison Weir, the founder of IAK, a woman who has…
Sobering thought re Gaza. “The head of the Palestinian bomb squad claimed, before he was killed, the total amount of explosive used on Gaza was between 18 and 20,000 tonnes, the equivalent of the Hiroshima bomb”
Ramallah, June 8, 2015–Defense for Children International Palestine (DCIP) is deeply troubled by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s decision not to include Israel’s armed forces in his annual list of groups that commit grave violations of children’s rights. Each year, the UN Secretary-General submits a report on children and armed conflict to the UN Security Council…
A challenge to Hamas/Fatah “I have to agree with the sentiment in this article..I hesitated to post it as it could undermine the efforts that some people are making but generally Government forces in Gaza and West Bank (& external Embassies) are appalling at promoting their cause. Whether they are under the Israeli jackboot or…
“To clarify Amnesty’s position on Israel-Palestine, the rape analogy is again useful. The Israeli onslaught against the Palestinians and the decades of dispossession are equivalent to the gang rape of a woman held at knifepoint. While this is going on Amnesty’s role is akin to standing on the sidelines wringing its hands and bleating occasionally:…
“There is a taboo,” said the visionary Edward Said, “on telling the truth about Palestine and the great destructive force behind Israel. Only when this truth is out can any of us be free.” For many people, the truth is out now. At last, they know. Those once intimidated into silence can’t look away now.…
While war and violence rips holes out of the world..Gaza continues to tread rubble, mud, filth and misery. This is Gaza now in the rain and freezing storms that are sweeping the country. This is the legacy of Israeli violence and tyranny. This is the legacy of International betrayal and abandonment. This is Gaza. “Baby…
The Wall Will Fall 