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Israel Committing "State Terror" in Gaza Attack, Preventing Peace

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

Democracy Now - By Avi Shlaim, Amy Goodman - Jan. 14 (Interview) - The assault on Gaza is entering its nineteenth day, with no end in sight. Israel continues its intense bombardment of the territory as Israeli troops edge closer to the heart of Gaza City. Nearly 1,000 Palestinians have been killed, more than 4,400 injured, many of them women and children. Thirteen Israelis have died over the same period, ten of them soldiers.

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Gaza: A pawn in the new 'great game'

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

Asia Times - By Alastair Crooke - Jan. 14 (Opinion) - The thesis that literally "everything" must be done either to lever "moderates" into power, or prevent them from losing power - euphemistically called "supporting moderation" - lies at the heart of the Gaza crisis. It is a narrative that has served Israel's wider interests in garnering legitimacy for the Israeli campaign against Iran, and in dichotomizing the region into Westernized "moderates" and Islamist "extremists".

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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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Eyeless in Gaza

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

The New York Review of Books - By Roger Cohen - Jan. 17 (Opinion) - Israel has the right to hit back at Hamas when attacked—but not to blow Gaza to pieces, or deprive people of food, water, and medicine. In at least one appalling incident at Zeitoun, on the east of Gaza City, where children were found next to their mothers' days-old corpses, the International Red Cross has accused Israel of an "unacceptable" failure "to meet its obligation under international law to care for and evacuate the wounded." Israel denies targeting civilians, accuses Hamas of using civilians as human shields, and says it works in "close cooperation" with international aid organizations. But at some point—and I would say a couple of hundred dead children in Gaza are already well past that point—such denials become pointless: the facts speak for themselves. No invocation of collateral damage or legitimate defense can excuse such wanton killing. As Avi Shlaim, a professor of international relations and former soldier in the Israeli army, has observed, the Gaza offensive "seems to follow the logic of an eye for an eyelash."

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Speaking with judgment, not prejudice

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

New Straits Times - By Koh Lay Chin - Jan. 14 (Comment) - It is not just Malaysian Muslims who are outraged; the injustice is felt by all. Funds for Gaza have seen contributions from the Chinese and Sikh communities; members of parliament from both the government and opposition have debated the conflict. There is a shared frustration over the plight of the Palestinians who have suffered under Israeli occupation and a debilitating economic blockade. Our nation has spoken up against Israel, condemning their attacks on the people of Palestine. With all this in mind, I still tremble when recalling recent conversations with fellow Malaysians, rife with anti-Semitic invective. They make no distinction between Jews, Zionists or the Israeli state, something which has troubled me for some time.

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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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Tom Friedman offers a perfect definition of "terrorism"

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

Salon - By Glenn Greenwald - Jan. 14 (Opinion) - Tom Friedman, one of the nation's leading propagandists for the Iraq War and a vigorous supporter of all of Israel's wars, has a column today in The New York Times explaining and praising the Israeli attack on Gaza. For the sake of robust and diverse debate (for which our Liberal Media is so well known), Friedman's column today appears alongside an Op-Ed from The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg, one of the nation's leading (and most deceitful) propagandists for the Iraq War and a vigorous supporter of all of Israel's wars, who explains that Hamas is incorrigibly hateful and radical and cannot be negotiated with. One can hardly imagine a more compelling exhibit demonstrating the complete lack of accountability in the "journalism" profession -- at least for those who are loyal establishment spokespeople who reflexively cheer on wars -- than a leading Op-Ed page presenting these two war advocates, of all people, as experts, of all things, on the joys and glories of the latest Middle East war.

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Go your own way

Fri, 16 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Haaretz - By Yossi Sarid - Jan. 16 (Opinion) - You, Barack Hussein Obama, are our last chance, and if that too fades - and evil is determined against us, all hope is lost. We are the prisoner who is stuck in a cell; without the help of others, we will never succeed in extricating ourselves from the bonds of our natural fear and the historical accounting. And there are no "others" except for America, for which no substitute has been found, even in its time of weakness.

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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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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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Who and what is Hamas?

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

therealnews.com - By Eric Margolis - Jan. 14 (Interview) - (video 9:27) Hamas is more of a threat to corrupt Arab regimes than to Israel

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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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Gaza, Qaddafi, And Starbucks

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

Link TV - By Jamal Dajani - Jan. 17 (News Analysis) - (VIDEO - 5:30) With the Israeli offensive on Gaza dragging into its third week, demonstrators around the globe have been pouring into the streets expressing their outrage against Israel's indiscriminate bombardment of residential neighborhoods in the Gaza Strip. In the Arab world, demonstrators have also turned their anger towards their leaders. They have been demanding the expulsion of Israel's ambassadors from Egypt and Jordan and the opening of the borders between Egypt and Gaza. In Egypt (the largest Arab country), demonstrators carried placards demanding "To stop the Gaza Holocaust", and "Gaza, Forgive Us." BTW, did I mention that here in the U.S. Arab Americans in solidarity with Gaza have been boycotting Starbucks? For the last couple of weeks, internet conspiracy theorists have been spreading a story that Starbucks is funding the Israeli attacks on Gaza!

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Israel shells hospital, UN compound

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

Aljazeera - Jan. 15 (News Report) - Officials said that a building of the UN relief agency in Gaza had been hit by Israeli shells and set ablaze. "They are phosphorus fires so they are extremely difficult to put out because if you put water on it, it will just generate toxic fumes and do nothing to stop the burning," John Ging, the director of UN relief operations, said. "This is going to burn down the entire warehouse ... thousands and thousands of tonnes of food, medical supplies and other emergency assistance are there." Ban Ki-moon, the UN secretary-general, said he was "outraged" by the attack on the UN compound and demanded an explanation as he met Israeli officials in Tel Aviv.

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Palestine: Israeli Troops Enter Residential Areas of Gaza City

Fri, 16 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Global Voices - By Ayesha Saldanha - Jan. 16 (Opinion) - Thousands of Palestinians have been fleeing from Gaza City as IDF troops have entered residential areas. A number of the foreign activists in Gaza were helping at Al Quds hospital when it came under attack, and managed to disseminate reports of what was going on. We hear from them and other bloggers in this roundup of Gaza blogs during the last 24 hours.

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It's time for the U.N. to impose tough sanctions on Israel

Fri, 16 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800

McClatchy - By John B. Quigley - Jan. 16 (Opinion) - It's time for the United Nations to shed its impotency and impose tough sanctions on Israel. That would be the least the United Nations could do after sitting silently for years through a "peace process" that Israel has used as a cover to grab Palestinian land.

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In Gaza, Weighing Crimes and Ethics in Urban Warfare

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

New York Times - By Steven Erlanger - Jan. 17 (Special Report) - Whatever the military and political results of Israel’s 21-day war against Hamas in Gaza, Israel is again facing serious accusations and anguished questioning over the legality of its military conduct. As in Israel’s 2006 war against Hezbollah in Lebanon, the popular perception abroad of how Israel fights, and hence of Israelis, may prove to be more lasting than any strategic gains or losses.

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What's the endgame for Israel and Hamas in Gaza?

Mon, 12 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Christian Science Monitor - By Ilene R. Prusher - Jan. 12 (News Analysis) - Israel and Hamas showed little interest over the weekend in moving toward an internationally brokered cease-fire, as both sides vowed to keep fighting. As the rockets and missiles fill the skies over Gaza and southern Israel, it sharpens the question: What are the goals – and exit strategies, if any – of each side? Within the Israeli public, there is a debate about whether the intent of the Israeli military – having already sent large numbers of tanks and ground troops into the Gaza Strip for the first time – is to occupy southern Gaza to prevent smuggling or "go all the way" and topple the Hamas government. Rule of the Gaza Strip might then be turned over to Fatah, the Palestinian party that was ousted in a Hamas military coup some 18 months ago and supports a two-state solution to the conflict.

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Israel pushes further into Gaza

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

Aljazeera - Jan. 13 (News Report) - Israeli troops have made their deepest push yet into Gaza since the beginning of the 18-day-old conflict, as Palestinians prepare for another night of heavy shelling.

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Palestine: Assessing the Aftermath in Gaza

Mon, 19 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Global Voices - By Ayesha Saldanha - Jan. 19 (News Analysis) - On Sunday evening the Israel Defense Forces began a troop withdrawal from Gaza, following three straight weeks of attacks. Israel's unilateral ceasefire was announced earlier in the day, and met with an offer for a one-week ceasefire from Hamas, the full text of which is here. Bloggers in Gaza, able to safely leave their homes for the first time in weeks, are mulling over the events of the day.

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Obama Must Get Tough With Israel to Achieve Peace

Mon, 12 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Newsweek - By Aaron David Miller - Jan. 12 (Opinion) - Jews worry for a living; their tragic history compels them to do so. In the next few years, there will be plenty to worry about, particularly when it comes to Israel. The current operation in Gaza won't do much to ease these worries or to address Israel's longer-term security needs. The potential for a nuclear Iran, combined with the growing accuracy and lethality of Hamas and Hizbullah rockets, will create tremendous concern. Anxiety may also be provoked by something else: an Obama administration determined to repair America's image and credibility and to reach a deal in the Middle East.

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