January 2009
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News & Links
WANTED! — Israeli human rights activists have posted warrants for the arrest of many Israeli officials for “violations of the Rome Statute & 4th Geneva Convention,” the rogues gallery includes Livni, Barak, Olmert and 12 others. With the request that, “Anyone who has information about the suspect when he is outside of the Israeli borders, report immediately to:...
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Older news & opinion
TIME, Jan 8 — Can Israel Survive Its Assault on Gaza? As Israeli troops encircle Gaza City, their commanders are faced with a painful dilemma: How far must they advance into the deadly labyrinth of slums and refugee camps where Hamas militants await with booby-trapped houses and snipers?
Haaretz — History did not begin with the Qassams But for us, the Israelis, history always...
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Hamas' role
It would be naive to think that Hamas was faultless in the events of the past month. As journalists gain better access to Gaza, personal stories from the residents bring up questions of Hamas’ activities and tactics during the conflict.
Channel 4 — ”.. this programme has heard accounts of Hamas fighters taking over homes to fight the Israelis and executing any family members of...
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Childhoods Blighted by War — BBC World...
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Broadcasters are wrong to boycott the Gaza appeal →
A short Guardian Editorial in response to the BBC’s refusal to air an appeal for the Disasters Emergency Committee,
“to avoid any risk of compromising public confidence in the BBC’s impartiality in the context of an ongoing news story.”
The BBC has tried to defend their decision. Part of the 1963 agreement giving free airtime to DEC appeals on television also says that if...
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WatchUNSEEN GAZA — Was truth the first casualty in Gaza? In Channel 4’s Dispatches documentary Jon Snow travels to Israel and explores the effect of restricted media access into Gaza and the varied reporting across the media.
Watch or download here.
(UK readers can also watch on Channel4.com - Windows only)
Related articles Gaza: War, from a distance When Jon Snow went to report on the...
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WatchChannel 4 News’ Jonathan Miller investigates the illegal use of white phosphorous, flechette and DIME weapons in Gaza. In the follow-up interview, Israeli spokesman Mark Regev struggled to maintain his composure defending the illegal use of these weapons in civilian areas.
UPDATE — On Regev, one friend describes him:
.. he is “not a bureaucrat, rather a finely tuned and dedicated...
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Opinion & News
Gaza war ended in utter failure for Israel Gideon Levy — Haaretz
Why the Gaza disaster is not 3 weeks old and has not stopped along with the bombs ”.. the eyes of the world have been opened to the reality of the daily lives of the people of Gaza; or the reality that the media has agreed to disclose.”
Where next for Israel? In Israel, detachment from reality is now the norm. All...
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Watch4 year old Samar, shot and crippled by an IDF soldier.
Who will save Israel from itself? What happened to us? What Kind of Security Will This Barbarism Bring Israel?
Endless Headlines ask these questions, no Op-Ed has given us anything resembling an answer. The ceasefire continues, the World talks of ceasefire, truce, unilateral, terror, fear and humanity as the unimaginable horrors of this...
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WatchChannel 4 News’ Jonathan Miller travels the length of Gaza, reviewing the shattering scale of what has been done to the territory.
Another report from January 19, visting the two UN schools and the UNWRA depot that were bombed, “Gaza: the scale of destruction emerges”:
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The Samouni Family, Zeitoun, Gaza Strip.
If there is one family that represents the wrongs of this conflict, it is the Samouni family from the Zeitoun district of Gaza. 30 members of the family were killed in the 22-days of conflict. They initially came to notice after the IDF blocked Red Cross access to their bombed home, eventually they found exhausted children sitting with the bodies of their dead mothers. Some of the children...
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Watch3 days after the halt of ‘Operation Cast Lead’ the tunnels are back in operation. A lifeline for the people of Gaza transporting some surprising commodities, not only weapons:
“sheep, goats… fruit, veg… fridges, generators… motorbikes, diesel… crocodiles, lion cubs…”
UPDATE — More on the lions at the Gaza Zoo
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8 Years Too Late.
Today can’t pass without some mention of Obama’s inauguration. As much as eight years of the Bush-doctrine has allowed the horror of these 22 Days to pass unhindered, the next 8 years, we must Hope, will see greater Change, with “unclenched fist”, never letting it happen again. Anywhere.
We’ll leave the rest to Maya Angelou:
In a climate where all men and women are...
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The violence network. →
A compelling description of Al Jazeera. “It’s biased, gruesome, and totally compelling. How Al-Jazeera makes one American think differently about war.”
“Al-Jazeera’s brand of news - you could call it “blood journalism” - takes war for what it is: a brutal loss of human life. The images they show put you in visceral contact with the violence of war in a way statistics never...
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Day 24. Opinion Opinion Opinion.
How many Palestinian Anne Franks did the Israelis murder? “Israel’s friends cannot justify this slaughter”
Peace Is in the Eye of the Beholder “I do not like Hamas. I detest religious fundamentalism and the use of suicide bombers. I find the group’s anti-Semitism and ruthless silencing of internal Palestinian opponents repugnant. The rocket attacks on Israeli civilians are a war...
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WatchGaza film shows white phosphorus from alleged Israeli attack
The Guardian has obtained vivid footage of the effect of white phosphorus allegedly used by Israel during a bomb attack on Gaza last week. full story…
Additional report and video from a victim of WP, “Ayman al Najar, 13, tells how he lost his sister, grandfather and cousin in a bomb attack on 14 January in Khoza’a,...
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So, I asked the UN secretary general, isn't it... →
It’s a wrap, a doddle, an Israeli ceasefire just in time for Barack Obama to have a squeaky-clean inauguration with all the world looking at the streets of Washington rather than the rubble of Gaza.
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“Israel Assembles “Incrimination Team” to Prepare for Wave of...”
– The ICRC, Amnesty International and other human rights organisations have called for the UN Security Council to “ensure full accountability for war crimes and other serious abuses of international human rights and humanitarian law” during the Gaza conflict.
Also, Palestinian human rights...
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WatchBritish MP, Sir Gerald Kaufman, delivers a blistering speech which starts with a reference to his grandmother being killed by the Nazis. “My grandmother did not die to provide cover for Israeli soldiers to kill Palestinian grandmothers in Gaza,” he says. Short excerpt above, full version here.
Kaufman is an outspoken critic of Israel, explained in his 2002 BBC documentary ‘The...
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Just the Facts
Israel has been targeted by at least 65 UN resolutions and the Palestinians have been targeted by none.
1 Israeli is being held prisoner by Palestinians, while 10,756 Palestinians are currently imprisoned by Israel.
0 Israeli homes have been demolished by Palestinians and 18,147 Palestinian homes have been demolished by Israel since 1967.
Israel currently has 223 Jewish-only settlements and...
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“Is Israel Using Banned and Experimental Munitions in Gaza?”
– Democracy Now!, White Phosphorous and Dense Inert Metal Explosives - interview with Human Rights Watch analyst and Norwegian Doctor Mads Gilbert.
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“Israel had requested access to “bunker-buster” bombs developed by...”
– Israel versus America, Is the ‘special relationship’ over?
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“The issue, surely, is that war crimes do appear to have been committed in Gaza....”
– When it comes to Gaza, leave the Second World War out of it - Robert Fisk
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WatchCeasefire due on Saturday January 17, 2009 ?
BBC reports on Livni’s trip to Washington, laying the groundwork for a unilateral ceasefire (ie. not talking with Hamas). Also an Interview with Regev and Abbas spokesman. Regev claims that Hamas is killing Gazan children [@6m10s].
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Chronology: Which Side Violated the Israel-Gaza... →
June 18, 2008 - December 28, 2008
UPDATE — 12 Jan Interview with former Israeli Foreign Minister revealing some critical background regarding the 2008 ceasfire.
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The Media War
James Zogby: How Israel’s Propaganda Machine Works
BBC Newsnight: Israel’s Gaza news management (mentions BBC cutting back coverage)
Time Magazine: Fighting the Media War in Gaza
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