Middle East 4 ChangeGhosts in the Land
Friday, May 28, 2021
Adam Shatz on the war in Israel-Palestine On 21 May Israel and Hamas agreed to a ceasefire after eleven days of fighting, but the days of ‘quiet’ – as the New…
Without US Aid, Israel Wouldn’t Be Killing Palestinians En Masse
Thursday, May 13, 2021
Noam Chomsky and CJ Polychroniou Successive Israeli governments have been trying for years to push Palestinians out of the Holy City of Jerusalem, and the latest round of…
Funding crisis threatens Palestinian refugee agency
Monday, November 30, 2020
Sharmila Devi UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East says that a $300 million shortfall is threatening health services. The UN Relief and…
Gaza: We thought the house was empty
Saturday, November 23, 2019
Vijay Prashad On 13 November 2019, as part of its deadly attack on the people of Gaza, Israeli armed forces bombed a building in the Deir al-Balah neighbourhood…
‘To sing is not a right in the Gaza Strip’
Thursday, June 13, 2019
Hind Khoudary. Abed Nasser, the owner of Cedar restaurant in Gaza City, broke the news to his customers in a Facebook post: the highly-anticipated music night scheduled for…
Gaza: Resistance Through Poetry
Saturday, March 30, 2019
Ramzy Baroud. “(At dawn) … I will resist … (Since) upon the wall there is still a white sheet … And my fingers are yet to (completely) dissolve.”…
Books on Middle East 2018 – tales of repression, ruse and resistance
Thursday, November 29, 2018
Into the Hands of the Soldiers: Freedom and Chaos in Egypt and the Middle East. David Kirkpatrick, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2018. From 2011 to 2015, David Kirkpatrick was the…
A Short History of Collective Punishment: From the British Empire to Gaza
Tuesday, August 28, 2018
Stanley L Cohn. Posted on Counterpunch August 24, 2018. As old as war itself, collective punishment has long been the most damning and destructive weapon of all. Not…
Gunshot Gaza: hospitals struggle to treat surge in firearms injuries
Monday, August 20, 2018
Jonathan Owen Published by BMJ August 10, 2018. New types of complex injuries in the Palestinian territory are leading to lifelong disabilities as prompt comprehensive care is beyond…
Sisi holds key to Trump’s Sinai plan for Palestinians
Saturday, July 7, 2018
Jonathan Cook. Posted on Middle East Eye July 5, 2018. Israel and the US are in a race against time with Gaza. The conundrum is stark: how to…
One Question: The future of Gaza
Thursday, July 5, 2018
Posted on State of Nature June 28, 2018. One Question is a monthly series in which we ask leading thinkers to give a brief answer to a single…
Siege and resistance in Gaza: an interview with Toufic Haddad
Sunday, June 17, 2018
Posted on Red Flag June 4, 2018. For more than 10 weeks, Palestinians have gathered in protest every Friday at the Israeli-Gaza Strip buffer zone, located in the…
The Great Return March and the Women of Gaza
Thursday, June 14, 2018
Fadi Abu Shammalah and Jen Marlowe Posted on Znet on June 13, 2018 from TomDispach on June 12, 2018 “I am here because I heard my town call…
Gazans Have Crossed the Fear Barrier
Thursday, May 24, 2018
Ramzy Baroud. Posted on ZCommunications May 23, 2018. 60 Palestinians were killed in Gaza on May 15, simply for protesting and demanding their Right of Return as guaranteed…
“There is a consensus. The proximate cause of the horror in Gaza is the Israeli blockade. It is not Hamas”
Sunday, May 20, 2018
Norman Finkelstein. Posted on Democracy now facebook Norman Finklestein on the Gaza blockade. http://ow.ly/nRTF30k1Ypu
Israel and Gaza: Policy of Kill and Kill and Kill
Thursday, May 17, 2018
Saree Makdisi. Posted on Counterpunch May 16, 2018. Two spectacles unfolded in Palestine on Monday. In Gaza, Israeli army snipers shot and killed 58 Palestinians—including six children—and injured…
Israel repurposes Nakba myths to justify today’s massacre in Gaza
Thursday, May 17, 2018
Jonathan Cook. Posted on ZCommunications 15th May 2018. On Monday and Tuesday, Palestinians commemorate the anniversary of the Nakba, or catastrophe, their mass expulsion and dispossession 70 years…
Can Palestinians be Killed? Can Israelis Kill them? Or do they only “Die”?
Tuesday, May 15, 2018
Julian Cole. Posted on Informed Comment 15th May 2018. Social media is being scathing about the diction chosen by the New York Times, CNN and even the Guardian…
Gaza’s “Great March of Return”: an international rallying call for peace and justice
Saturday, April 28, 2018
Stephen McCloskey. Posted on Open Democracy 26, April 2018. In 2015, a Guardian editorial said that “The right of assembly in a public place is truly one of…
Calling on world conscience
Tuesday, April 10, 2018
Hamza Abu Eltarabesh. Posted on Electronic Intifada April 7, 2108. Much has already been written and said about the bloody events of the first Great March of Return…
Israeli peace group urges soldiers to refuse orders to shoot Gaza protesters
Friday, April 6, 2018
Posted on Informed Consent on April 6, 2018. BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Israeli human rights organization B’Tselem launched a campaign entitled “Sorry Commander, I cannot shoot,” on Thursday urging…
Analysts: Israel using rocket attacks from fringe groups in Gaza to target Hamas tunnel infrastructure
Monday, October 10, 2016
Hamza Abu Al-Tarabeesh, Mondoweiss. Ali Tannany, 27, was celebrating his bachelor party with friends, relatives and neighbors in Jabalia Camp in Northern Gaza in August when Israeli missiles…
How Turkey’s Reconciliation Deal with Israel Harms the Palestinians
Thursday, August 18, 2016
Jeremy R Hammond, Counterpunch. With Israel and Turkey having announced a reconciliation agreement this week, Turkey is portraying itself as a protector of the oppressed by arguing that…
The House of Zion
Wednesday, December 16, 2015
Editorial by Perry Anderson New Left Review Since the turn of the century, the Arab states have come to constitute a zone for Western military intervention without parallel…