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Gaza conflict: Timeline, Map and Gaza Profile

Sat, 10 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800

BBC News - Jan. 10 (Special Report) - SATURDAY 10 JANUARY Gaza Strip: The Israeli military attacks more than 70 Hamas targets on Saturday, following 40 overnight air strikes. Clashes are reported north and east of Jabaliya refugee camp, where a tank shell hits a house, reportedly killing eight people. Southern Israel: Israel says more than 30 rockets are fired by Palestinian militants, including four which hit the Israeli town of Ashkelon, injuring two people. Gaza City: Israeli ground troops are reported to have moved closer to the edge of the city.

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Land of Ruins: A Special Report on Gaza's Economy

Mon, 06 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By Anjali Kamat - Apr. 06 (Special Report) - Anjali Kamat files a report on the state of the Gazan economy, where unemployment and poverty rates are among the highest in the world. Despite international pledges of over $5.2 billion to rebuild Gaza, in the four months since Israel’s assault the siege has not been lifted and only one truck carrying cement and other construction materials has been allowed entry into the Gaza Strip.

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If Gaza falls . . .

Thu, 01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800

The London Review of Books - By Sara Roy - Jan. 01 (Special Report) - Israel’s siege of Gaza began on 5 November, the day after an Israeli attack inside the strip, no doubt designed finally to undermine the truce between Israel and Hamas established last June. Although both sides had violated the agreement before, this incursion was on a different scale. Hamas responded by firing rockets into Israel and the violence has not abated since then. Israel’s siege has two fundamental goals. One is to ensure that the Palestinians there are seen merely as a humanitarian problem, beggars who have no political identity and therefore can have no political claims. The second is to foist Gaza onto Egypt.

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Gaza: 14 Days of Horror

Sat, 10 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Mosaic Intelligence Report - By Jamal Dajani - Jan. 10 (News Analysis) - At least 778 Palestinians have been killed and 3,250 injured since the Israeli offensive on Gaza began on December 27. More than 200 Palestinian children are among the dead. Thirteen Israelis, including three civilians, have been killed during the same period. A UN resolution fails to stop Israeli attacks on Gaza. Anger over Gaza grows on Arab streets. Close to 800 people perish in 14 days of fighting. When will the war end?

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Orwell, blinding tribalism, selective Terrorism, and Israel/Gaza

Sun, 04 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Salon - By Glenn Greenwald - Jan. 04 (News Analysis) - If you see Palestinians as something less than civilized human beings: as "barbarians" -- just as if you see Americans as infidels warring with God or Jews as sub-human rats -- then it naturally follows that civilian deaths are irrelevant, perhaps even something to cheer. For people who think that way, arguments about "proportionality" won't even begin to resonate -- such concepts can't even be understood -- because the core premise, that excessive civilian deaths are horrible and should be avoided at all costs, isn't accepted. Why should a superior, civilized, peaceful society allow the welfare of violent, hateful barbarians to interfere with its objectives? How can the deaths or suffering of thousands of barbarians ever be weighed against the death of even a single civilized person?

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Crisis Worsens for Civilians in Gaza

Wed, 14 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800

The Real News - Jan. 14 (News Report) - (VIDEO) Sameh Habeeb, a photojournalist based in Gaza City, gives a first-hand report about the worsening humanitarian crisis, which includes shortages of water, food, gas and other fuels, amid fears that Israeli bombs will hit any vehicle that moves.

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Gaza Media War

Wed, 14 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Link TV - Jan. 14 (News Analysis) - (VIDEO - 5:25) Israel and Hamas are fighting on two fronts in Gaza -- a military battle, and a battle for public opinion. People around the world are being confronted with horrifying images of war, as well as all sorts of spin from various sources in the ongoing Gaza tragedy. As the combatants attempt to control the message, the media sphere is also crowded with self-promotion by secondary players.

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Arabs Find A Hero

Fri, 30 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By Jamal Dajani - Jan. 30 (News Analysis) - The new hero of the Arab street is Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. A short while ago, it was U.S. archenemy Hugo Chávez, the Venezuelan president who recently expelled the Israeli ambassador.

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Welcome to Hell: Gaza's unending misery

Sun, 11 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800

The Independent - By Ibrahim Barzak, Kim Sengupta, Geoffrey Lean, David Randall - Jan. 11 (News Report) - Israeli forces yesterday pounded dozens of targets in the Gaza Strip and dropped leaflets warning of an escalation in attacks, as southern Israel came under renewed Palestinian rocket fire. Last night, as flames and smoke rose over Gaza City, speculation grew that Israel was about to launch the so-called third stage of its offensive: the forcible entry into Gaza City by thousands of troops. In response, Hamas said that the Gaza offensive had "killed the last chance for settlement and negotiation with Israel". Earlier yesterday, Israeli aircraft attacked more than 40 targets throughout Gaza, striking 10 rocket-launching sites, weapons-storage facilities, smuggling tunnels, an anti-aircraft missile launcher and gunmen. And civilians. In the day's bloodiest incident, an Israeli tank shell landed outside a home in the northern Gaza town of Jabaliya, killing nine people as they sat in their garden. They were all from the same clan, and, said health administrator Adham Hakim, their bodies were so mangled they were brought to hospital in the boot of a civilian car. Two were women and two were children.

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Massive Protests in London, Barcelona

Sun, 11 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Informed Comment - By Juan Cole - Jan. 11 (News Report) - Some videoblogging for a snowy Sunday (where I am). CBC reports on Israeli military killing of civilians with Israeli army footage that Israeli television leaked. It shows the killing of a mother of two. There is touching footage of a young girl trying not to show the enemy her tears. Israeli soldiers appear to have delayed an ambulance from coming in time to save her. One of the Israeli soldiers says "I don't know what we are doing here. Purification maybe. It's dirty here. I don't know why a good Hebrew boy should be here so far from his home."

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Mahmoud Abbas Threatens to Step Down in Light of Ongoing Israeli Colonization of West Bank

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Informed Comment - By Juan Cole - Nov. 06 (News Analysis) - Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas says he wants to stand down and he declines to run in the upcoming Palestine Authority elections. The decision came in the wake of the US failure to convince the Israelis to halt colonization of the West Bank and Arab East Jerusalem. It also followed a series of embarrassing flip-flops by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who praised hard line right wing PM Netanyahu for his efforts in favor of the peace process. Even for a diplomatic statement, this tack is is a little embarrassing in its obsequiousness toward Netanyahu, who has undermined the peace process at every turn and rejects out of hand the US demand that he freeze settlements. Reactions of Arab allies of the US were sharp.

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Progressive Jews See Potential Conflict With Obama Over Gaza

Mon, 29 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By Sam Stein - Dec. 29 (News Report) - "At this moment of extreme crisis, J Street wants to demonstrate that, among those who care about Israel and its security, there is a constituency for sanity and moderation," read a carefully worded action alert from the J Street, a pro-Israel, pro-peace organization. "There are many who recognize elements of truth on both sides of this gaping divide and who know that closing it requires strong American engagement and leadership."

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Children 'paying price of Gaza war'

Thu, 15 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Aljazeera - Jan. 15 (News Report) - Children are bearing the brunt of Israel's war on the Gaza Strip, the United Nations Children's Fund (Unicef) has said. More than 300 children have been killed and hundreds more wounded in Israel's aerial and ground assault, Ann Veneman, Unicef's executive director, said in a statement released on Wedneday.

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War on Hamas Saps Palestinian Leaders

Thu, 15 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Isabel Kershner - Jan. 15 (News Analysis) - The more bombs in Gaza, the more Hamas’s support seems to be growing at the expense of the Palestinian Authority, already considered corrupt and distant from average Palestinians.

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Pro-Israel Rally Attended by Big-Time NY Dems Descends into Calls for 'Wiping Out' Palestinians

Tue, 13 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800

AlterNet - By Max Blumenthal - Jan. 13 (News Report) - If you are a bad person, a whining enemy or a strong-arm occupier, you are not my brother, even if you are circumcised, observe the Sabbath, and do mitzvahs.- Avraham Burg

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How the Gaza War Could End: Three Scenarios

Sat, 17 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Time - By Tony Karon - Jan. 17 (News Analysis) - each side's goals from any truce remain antagonistic to the other's, and reaching an agreement that bridges the vast gap between them remains a herculean diplomatic challenge.

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Dealing with Hamas: Can the U.S. Avoid It Much Longer?

Fri, 06 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Time - By Tony Karon - Mar. 06 (News Analysis) - The formation of that Lebanese government, of course, sealed the defeat of the Bush Administration's efforts to stand up a pro-Western government in Beirut that excluded parties allied with Syria and Iran. The U.S. strategy foundered on the fact that Hizballah and its allies enjoy wide backing in the communities from which they hail and have the military muscle to back them up in a fight. London has simply acknowledged that Hizballah is an intractable political fact in Lebanon, and therefore plans to engage it in an effort to encourage the group to pursue a more pragmatic course

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Terribly Bloodied, Still Breathing

Sat, 17 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800

CounterPunch - By Caoimhe Butterly - Jan. 17 (Special Report) - We have learned the language of the war that the Israelis are waging on the collective captive population of Gaza- to distinguish between the sounds of the weaponry used, the timing between the first missile strikes and the inevitable second- targeting those that rush to tend to and evacuate the wounded, to recognize the signs of the different chemical weapons being used in this onslaught, to overcome the initial vulnerability of recognizing our own mortality.

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Israel's Gaza offensive stokes anger among Jordan elite

Wed, 14 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Los Angeles Times - By Borzou Daragahi - Jan. 14 (Special Report) - From King Abdullah II on down, Jordanians, more than half of them of Palestinian descent, widely fear that instead of reaping long-term rewards for helping stabilize Iraq and counter Iran's regional aspirations, their country will be forced to deal with shattered hopes for the Israeli-Palestinian peace process it has supported for more than a decade.

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New J Street poll: American Jews want U.S. engagement in peace process

Mon, 23 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700

blogs.jta.org - By Eric Fingerhut - Mar. 23 (Poll) - J Street has a new poll out which finds that American Jews back strong U.S. involvement in reaching a Middle East peace ageement, negative feelings toward Avigdor Lieberman and a split regarding military action in Iran.

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Attack on Gaza: As Usual, U.S. Media (And Most Liberals) Silent

Sun, 28 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By Greg Mitchell - Dec. 28 (News Analysis) - In the usual process, the U.S. government, media here -- and most liberal bloggers -- are silent or playing down questions about whether Israel overreacted in its massive air strikes on Gaza, while the foreign press, and even Haaretz in Israel, carries more balanced accounts.

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Press TV - Hamas accepts Egyptian truce: Spain

Wed, 14 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800

presstv.ir - Jan. 14 (News Report) - Spain says the Hamas movement has accepted an Egyptian proposal for a cease-fire to put an end to Israel's military aggression in Gaza. "Hamas is going to publicly express its support and acceptance," Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos told the reporters Wednesday after meeting Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert.

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Price of stubborness over Gaza exit is dead soldiers

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Haaretz - By Amos Harel, Avi Issacharoff, - Jan. 06 (News Analysis) - When an Israeli force gets into an entanglement, as in Sajaiyeh last night, massive fire into built-up areas is initiated to cover the extraction. In other cases, a chain of explosions is initiated from a distance to set off Hamas booby-traps. It is a method that leaves a swath of destruction taking in entire streets, and does not distinguish military targets from the homes of civilians.

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UN Inquiry Finds Israel "Punished and Terrorized" Palestinian Civilians, Committed War Crimes During Gaza Assault

Wed, 16 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By Amy Goodman, Norman Finkelstein - Sep. 16 (News Report) - A United Nations fact-finding mission has found Israel “punished and terrorized” civilians in its three-week assault on Gaza earlier this year and cited strong evidence that Israeli forces committed “grave breaches” of the Geneva Conventions. More than 1,400 Palestinians—about a third of them women and children—were killed in the assault.

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Red Cross critical of Israel

Sat, 10 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Channel 4 - By Jonathan Rugman - Jan. 10 (News Report) - As a UN aid worker is killed in Gaza, the International Red Cross accuses Israel of breaching humanitarian law. Jonathan Rugman reports. Conditions for the residents of Gaza worsened still further this afternoon when a United Nations aid agency suspended its operations after one of its workers was killed. And in unusually strong terms the International Red Cross today criticised Israel after finding four emaciated children among a group of corpses in a house just metres from an Israeli military position. The ICRC chief in Gaza accused the Israelis of breaching international humanitarian law in what he called this "shocking incident". The day began with the first rocket attack on Israel out of Lebanon since this Gaza crisis began. Three Katyusha rockets were fired from an area north of the Lebanese coastal village of Naqoura, towards northern Israel. One hit a nursing home in Nahariya, slightly injuring two people. Israel retaliated with an artillery salvo into southern Lebanon. But the Israelis say they believe it was Palestinian militiamen, and not Hezbollah, behind today's attacks. In Gaza City residents described last night's bombardment as among the heaviest so far. In the devastated Zeitoun neighbourhood, the Red Cross found the four starving children. And this afternoon the United Nations Relief and Work Agency in Gaza suspended operations after one of its drivers was killed as his convoy approached the Erez crossing. 765 Palestinians are thought to have died since the Israeli operation began a fortnight ago.

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