With each passing day more information becomes available in relation to the operation and how it was carried out. This includes the near certainty that it involved the cooperation of a high level Palestinian informant or informants in passing on the intelligence required for its success. The question which must be asked though is the [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Israel’
Heart of Jenin. Palestinian father of son killed by Israeli troops donated his organs to Israeli children
Andy Carling tells about the documentary film, Heart of Jenin.
One year later, [the father, Ismael Khatib] toured round Israel in the company of German film maker, Marcus Vetter, and visited five of the children who had received transplants. Asked why, Khatib said, “It’s not about politics, about Jews or Arabs, it’s about human beings. I [...]
Was ‘hijacked’ Russian ship intercepted by Mossad and carrying missiles to Iran?
Could be, says Tikun Olam.
Jimmy Carter: Palestinians treated ‘like animals’
“The starving of 1.5 million human beings of the necessities of life — never before in history has a large community like this been savaged by bombs and missiles and then denied the means to repair itself,” Carter said at a UN school graduation ceremony in Gaza City.
Israeli troops describe shooting Gaza civilians
From The Guardian, citing Israeli newspaper reports
Striking testimony has emerged from Israeli soldiers involved in the recent Gaza war, in which they describe shooting unarmed civilians, sometimes under orders from their officers.
Israel closes border, attacks Gaza
This in response to a roadside bomb killing an Israeli soldier
An al-Qaeda linked group claimed responsibility but Israel responds by attacking Gaza since Hamas, they say, may have given the go-ahead.
Israel’s coming war with Hezbollah
Evidence points to the strong possibility that Israel’s military operation in Gaza is being viewed by the Israelis as a dress rehearsal for another war with Hezbollah.
Since its defeat at the hands of the Iranian-backed Lebanese resistance movement during an attempted invasion of Southern Lebanon in 2006, the IDF has undergone intensive training in urban [...]
Building a countervailing force to AIPAC
Juan Cole continues his thoughts on why protests in the streets have little, if any, effect on the US policy towards Israel, and what needs to be done.
The US Senate and the US House of Representatives are not afraid of street protests in San Francisco. And why should they be? What sort of threat is [...]
Israel: Regional super power and largest Jewish ghetto ever
Photo from TimesOnline article. (Khalil Hamra/AP)
Ira Chernus, professor of religious studies at the University of Colorado, Boulder on AlterNet
For more than 40 years, I’ve been watching my own Jewish people in wartime, repeating the same self-defeating pattern over and over. Most Jews say that they want Israel to be more secure, and they really mean [...]
Singing songs and carrying signs, mostly say, “Hooray for our side”
If a Stop the Gaza Invasion protest is filled with speakers saying we must stand with Palestinians even if this means decades more of struggle and conflict, then by definition it is not an antiwar rally.
Antiwar means figuring out how to end the violence, not calling for more by saying our side must prevail.
As [...]
Gaza war. Two weeks and still going
AFP photo from BBC
From Hope man. He is Israeli and lives near Gaza. He blogs with Peace man, who is Palestinian and lives in Gaza.
We are now 2 weeks into the war.
1 week since the ground incursion and Peace man and I have been in very little contact since the. He is out of electricity [...]
Israel, Hamas reject UN truce vote. Fighting continues
Neither side wants a cease-fire. How much more carnage will there be? And to what end?
Nobody is winning here except the warlords.
Vatican: Gaza like “big concentration camp”
Cardinal Martino, president of the Vatican’s Council for Justice and Peace, made the comment to Italian online site Il Sussidiario.
“Defenceless populations are always the ones who pay,” he said.
“Look at the conditions in Gaza: more and more, it resembles a big concentration camp.”
Life must go on in Gaza and Sderot
They call themselves Peace Man and Hope Man, one is Israeli, the other Palestinian. They live on opposite sides of the Israel-Gaza border. They blog about what it’s like.
This blog is written by 2 friends. One lives in Sajaia refugee camp in Gaza and the other lives in Sderot, a small town near Gaza on [...]
The Israeli attack on the school
What everyone needs to take but probably won’t.
Harry’s Place
And even if you hold Israel responsible for the current conflict, try to look at things from an Israeli point of view. Do you really think Israeli commander said, “There are Palestinian civilians sheltering in that building. Let’s blast them”?
It’s certainly possible. And is something that too [...]
