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A 14-year-old in Gaza has one question: Why?
 January 11, 2009

 

NOOR is a lovely girl of 14, a talented writer in English and Arabic, thanks to the American International School in Gaza. Noor is my stepdaughter. She frequently asks me difficult questions about grammar or geography, about life and people.

  

Break the 'Arab' siege of Gaza

August 31, 2008

 

The two boats that sailed through the Mediterranean to the shore of Gaza Strip left after a week with less Arab media attention.I really felt ashamed that the 40 activists on board, who defied the inhuman Israeli blockade and the strangulating siege of more than a million Palestinian in the Gaza Strip, came from 14 countries;

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Marin activist recounts 'Free Gaza' voyage

08/29/2008

 

A Marin woman was making a triumphant voyage back to Cyprus this week after members of the Free Gaza movement sailed from Cyprus to Gaza to break an Israeli blockade.

Kathy Sheetz, 61, a retired nurse, was among 46 human rights workers aboard two small boats

 

Beyond a cease-fire, Gaza needs help

By Rayyan al-Shawaf
The Daily Star
Tuesday, July 22, 2008

 

These days, the tottering cease-fire between Israel and Hamas - brokered by Egypt just over one month ago - is getting some international attention. This certainly is a welcome sign, though the danger is that an already exasperated international community will consider cementing the cease-fire as an end in itself.

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Shades of Checkpoint Charlie at Rafah Crossing
Haidar Eid writing from the occupied Gaza Strip, Live from Palestine, 8 July 2008

 

On Monday 30 June, Gaza was abuzz with the sudden announcement that Egypt would open Rafah Crossing -- the only gateway for 1.5 million Palestinians who have been imprisoned here for almost two years -- for three short days. Although I had good reasons to use the crossing to leave Gaza, I was unsure about pressing my luck to escape, if only for a short while.

  

High School Students in Gaza under siege, Determination and will despite the suffering and despair!!!

By: Eman Alajramy

Paul Gaston Aaron

Palestinian International Campaign to end the siege on Gaza

30-06-2008

 

Electricity for only a few hours a day, and doing homework by candle light is exhausting. No copying paper, and pencils, pens and books remain in short supply.  

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Relief or calm before the storm?

26 June - 2 July 2008
Issue No. 903

 

Though Israel's motives aren't clear, its inability to cow Hamas is, says Saleh Al-Naami

Rihab, 39, wasn't able to convince her husband Saleh Abu Samha, 42, to buy curtains last Friday in Al-Maghazi refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, where they reside. Abu Samha told Al-Ahram Weekly that the logic he was working by in denying his wife's request was that the price of curtains, like all other goods, is incredibly high because of the siege.

 

Occupation by bureaucracy

By Saree Makdisi

International Herald Tribune

June 24, 2008

 

A cease-fire went into effect in Gaza last week, offering some respite from the violence that has killed hundreds of Palestinians and five Israelis in recent months. It will do nothing, however, to address the underlying cause of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

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Quiet is muck

By Gideon Levy

June 23, 2008

 

A great disaster has suddenly come upon Israel: The cease-fire has gone into effect. Cease-fire, cease-Qassams, cease-assassiations, at least for now. This good, hopeful news was received in Israel dourly, gloomily, even with hostility. As usual, politicians, the military brass and pundits went hand in hand to market the cease-fire as a negative,

  

Rays of hope from the Gaza ceasefire
Ali Abunimah, The Electronic Intifada, 20 June 2008

 

After the unremitting hell that Israel has inflicted on Palestinians in Gaza, one can only feel relief and even joy at the ceasefire agreed between Hamas and the Jewish state that took effect this week. Its significance extends well beyond Gaza and opens new possibilities as the disastrous Bush Doctrine begins to lose influence.

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Slow death in Gaza
 Margaret Kimberley, The Electronic Intifada, 6 June 2008


Each American claim to moral authority becomes a foul excretion in light of US complicity in Israel's barbaric and illegal treatment of the Palestinians. Washington deploys its superpower apparatus to smother dissent against its Middle East policy in Europe and elsewhere, leaving former president Jimmy Carter and Nobel laureate Desmond Tutu as lonely defenders of Palestinian human rights.

 

Statement by the President of the European Parliament, Hans-Gert Pöttering, at the opening of the plenary

on the situation in the Palestinian Territories

Strasbourg, 16 June 2008

 

A 14-member delegation from Parliament’s Working Group on the Middle East visited Israel and Palestine from 30 May to 2 June 2008, led by Véronique De Keyser and Annemie Neyts-Uyttebroeck. It assessed on the ground the practical implementation of the objectives announced jointly by all parties at the Annapolis Conference six months ago,

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Slow death in Gaza
 Margaret Kimberley, The Electronic Intifada, 6 June 2008


Each American claim to moral authority becomes a foul excretion in light of US complicity in Israel's barbaric and illegal treatment of the Palestinians. Washington deploys its superpower apparatus to smother dissent against its Middle East policy in Europe and elsewhere, leaving former president Jimmy Carter and Nobel laureate Desmond Tutu as lonely defenders of Palestinian human rights.

 

Gaza's Imminent Explosion

By Dr. Elias Akleh

06/05/2008

 

Gaza has been turned into a ticking bomb ready to explode any day. This started with US/Israel/Abbas trio conspiracy, according to Vanity Fair magazine, to topple the democratically elected Hamas-led Palestinian government. This resulted into Palestinian division and the isolation of Gaza Strip. To finish off Hamas leadership Israel had borrowed Nazi siege tactics of Warsaw Ghetto,

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Blockade on Education

June 04, 2008
By Joharah Baker for MIFTAH

 

Since last June, stories of ill patients unable to leave the Gaza Strip, Israeli military invasions and fuel cuts have been streaming out of the coastal strip at a steady pace. The blockade imposed by Israel on Gaza ever since Hamas took over in June 2006 has resulted in hundreds of deaths, skyrocketing unemployment and lack of proper food and water supplies.

  

Gaza won't go away

May 13, 2008

Ian Black

Guardian

 

On any clear-eyed, practical view the continuing blockade can only contribute to more suffering, desperation and hatred

The Gaza Strip is the elephant in the room of the Middle East's longest-running crisis, effectively ignored by all participants in the so-called Israeli-Palestinian peace process...

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A human rights crime

The world must stop standing idle while the people of Gaza are treated with such cruelty

Jimmy Carter 

Thursday May 8 2008

 

The world is witnessing a terrible human rights crime in Gaza, where a million and a half human are being imprisoned with almost no access to the outside world.

  

There is hope in Gaza

Miko Peled, The Electronic Intifada, 5 May 2008

Electronic Intifada

 

Israel's assault on the people of Gaza is so horrendous that it will not soon be forgotten. This vicious attempt by Israel to destroy an entire nation has tipped the scales for good and Zionism will forever be remembered as a blemish in the history of the Jewish people.

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A strangled people

Sami Abdel-Shafi in Gaza City

The Guardian,

Saturday May 3 2008

 

It is a strange feeling: after working as a productive professional in Gaza for five years, I have become a black market junkie. I make several phone calls a day hunting for fuel for my car, diesel for the electricity generator waiting on standby to power the house, even cigarettes and vitamins.

 

Talking to 'terrorists'
By Jimmy Carter
International Herald Tribune
April 28, 2008

A counterproductive Washington policy in recent years has been to boycott and punish political factions or governments that refuse to accept U.S. domination. This policy deters the ability of revolutionary or uncooperative leaders to moderate their attitude and demands.

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Bombs, bullets & our daily bread

Sunday April 27, 2008

The Observer

 

Lunch is whistling: the noise comes from Fathiya's old pressure cooker, which has shuddered scarily on a little gas hob for nearly two hours. I go out into the narrow alley between the concrete shacks of the refugee camp.

   Good for Carter
By Stuart Littlewood
PalestineChronicle
04/25/2008

Israel’s blockade of Gaza brings UN aid to a standstill and ensures no ambulances can run. The UN says it is having to suspend deliveries of food and essential commodities to 860,000 of Gaza’s 1.4 million population due to fuel shortages.

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Deepening crisis

AL-AHRAM Weekly

24 - 30 April 2008

 

Economic conditions in the West Bank as well as Gaza are deteriorating, leaving many incensed at the masquerade of peace talks, writes Khaled Amayreh in Ramallah

As 1.5 million Gazans are crying out to the world to pressure Israel to lift its scandalously callous blockade of the coastal territory,

  

Adopt a Doctor, Adopt a Patient, Adopt a Window, Adopt a Meal

by Felicity Arbuthnot

Global Research, April 21, 2008

 

As Israel plans celebrations - which mark sixty years of Palestinian deaths, displacement and grief - with a Jewish “cultural and heritage pavilion”, it can only be hoped, in the interests of historical accuracy and authenticity,

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Like gang warfare

H a a r e t z

21/04/08

By Gideon Levy


On both sides of the fence locking in the Gaza Strip, there is a war of desperation going on. Hamas is fighting against the insufferable siege that the Gaza Strip has been under for many months,

  

Manifest Destiny?

Uri Avnery

12/04/08

 

NEXT MONTH, Israel will celebrate its 60th anniversary. The government is working feverishly to make this day into an occasion of joy and jubilation. While serious problems are crying out for funds, some 40 million dollars have been allocated to this aim.

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Palestinians versus Tibetans - a double standard

By Gideon Levy

Haaretz

 

Israelis have no moral right to fight the Chinese occupation of Tibet. The president of the Israeli Friends of the Tibetan People, the psychologist Nahi Alon,

 

Bradley Burston: Palestinians should win

April 11, 2008

Middle East Times

 

JERUSALEM -- "I and the majority of the Palestinian people are ready for a historic agreement based on international decisions that will allow a Palestinian and Israeli state to coexist, side by side, in peace and stability."

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Israel's Dependence on Gaza

April 9, 2008

By Sadie Goldman with IPF Staff

Israel Policy Forum


When Shalom Simhon heard that government officials were discussing cutting Gaza off from receiving Israeli goods, he could not have been too surprised.

 

Statement: Gaza's agriculture on the verge of collapse

Tuesday April 08, 2008 17:23

by Rami Almeghari - IMEMC & Agencies

 

The Hamas-run agriculture ministry warned on Tuesday of likely complete halt of services, the ministry offers to the civilian population in Gaza,

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