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The bias in Israeli media coverage of Gaza protests | | Bernard Smith - Aljazeera - Many Israeli journalists rely on the
military for information and access to areas where news is happening.
Fear of losing that access stops reporters from challenging the
military’s narrative that the protesters were trying to invade
Israel.-rh
| 23/5/2018 |
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Blaming the victim | | Daoud Kuttab - Arabic Media Internet Network - print send by email
It is hard to believe that anyone can simply put the blame on the
Palestinian side for the mass killings of unarmed protesters by
Israeli snipers. How is it the Palestinian fault for being shot. There
is no report of a single Israeli soldier or civilian being hurt, yet
the Israeli, and even American officials, repeat the very same
argument. This reminds us of what Israeli prime minister Golda Meir
once said, that she will never “forgive them [the Palestinians] for
having forced us to kill their sons”. The US and Israeli talking
points are identical. This is a Hamas-provoked violence and that
Israel acted in self-defence.-rh | 23/5/2018 |
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Life in Gaza | | Tom Helman, Joshua Grossman and Peter Klotz-Chamberlin - Mondoweiss -
UNRWA provides the basic government services for refugees that
government would provide—in Gaza, 275 schools for 272,000 children, 22
primary health centers, food aid for 50 percent of the people. This
spring the Trump administration it has frozen $305 million from its
$360 million budget for UNRWA, placing it ‘under review’ while making
it clear they should not expect further U.S. funding this year. From
the UNRWA website, one can see that the U.S. was UNRWA’s largest donor
in 2017. UNRWA Officials say schools will not be able to open in
September without this funding. 272,000 children will have nowhere to
go, 9,000 teachers will be unemployed, alongside hundreds of thousands
of already unemployed Gaza residents. The Trump administration also
froze emergency food assistance in Gaza for the rest of 2018. Matthias
Schmale was blunt: “it is a major nightmare when the United States
government notified UNRWA that it will not grant emergency food money
this year.”-rh | 23/5/2018 |
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Hamas focused on ending the blockade | | Shlomi Eldar - Al-Monitor - Hamas is awaiting developments. As far as
it is concerned, the “border operation” it mounted this week against
Israel with tens of thousands of Gaza residents storming the fence was
successful; the eyes of the world are directed once again at the Gaza
Strip after a long hiatus of disinterest. Hamas is seeking, obviously,
to end the blockade imposed by Israel on Gaza in 2007, and it is
operating in accordance with a familiar modus operandi honed over more
than a decade. The first stage is to put out feelers to see whether
Israel is willing to discuss a long-term cease-fire. When Israel turns
them down, Hamas launches a second, violent stage, in a bid to bring
Israel to the negotiating table to discuss a deal it failed to achieve
with its initial, conciliatory moves.-rh
| 23/5/2018 |
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A suicide in Gaza | | Sarah Helm - The Guardian - When Mohanned Younis, a 22-year-old
student, returned to his home in a relatively prosperous part of Gaza
City one night last August, he was in an agitated state. He had been
depressed, his mother, Asma, recalled. But she was not too worried
when he locked himself in his room. A talented writer whose short
stories, many posted on his Facebook page, had won a wide audience,
Mohanned was about to graduate in pharmacy, expecting excellent
grades. In his writing, he gave voice to the grief and despair of his
generation. Only books gave him some escape. He often shut himself
away to read and write, or to work out with his punch bag. The next
morning, Mohanned didn’t stir. When Asma, helped by her brother Assad,
broke into his room, they found him dead. He had asphyxiated himself.-
rh | 23/5/2018 |
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Health Ministry: “Israeli Army Killed 112 Palestinians, Injured 13190 Since March 30th” | | IMEMCNews - Dr. Ashraf al-Qedra, the spokesperson of the Palestinian
Health Ministry in the Gaza Strip, has reported Sunday that Israeli
soldiers have killed 112 Palestinians, and injured 13190 since the
Great Return March protests started on the Palestinian Land Day, March
30th, 2018. Dr. al-Qedra said that the soldiers killed 13 Palestinian
children, and injured 2096 others, in addition to wounding 1029
women.-rh | 23/5/2018 |
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Broken Dreams and Lost Lives: Israel, Gaza and the Hamas Card | | STANLEY L. COHEN - CounterPunch - Over the years, Hamas evolved from a
social service network, throughout Palestine, to become an armed guard
of the Palestinian people through the discrete Qassam Brigades and an
elected political movement swept to power in 2006. That victory came
in what was described, then, by former President Carter, as the most
transparent and successful electoral process he had observed as a
monitor over his many years of such service in the Middle East. Not
long thereafter, all of Gaza was punished for the temerity of its
electoral will through the imposition of the embargo that a decade
later remains in place as an on-going stranglehold on the health,
welfare and safety of its two million residents, punctuated by massive
deadly Israeli onslaughts every few years.-rh | 23/5/2018 |
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Troubling tactics of the Israeli Police | | Mazal Mualem - Al-Monitor - Israel Police arrested 19 Arab Israeli
activists during a May 18 demonstration in Haifa protesting the
killing of Palestinians near the Gaza-Israel border fence in recent
weeks. When the detainees were remanded two days later, the court
ordered the police to release them. The bold decision by Justice Amir
Salameh of the Haifa Magistrate Court to reject a police request to
extend their detention saved the dignity of the Israeli law
enforcement system. All too often, the police succeed in convincing
judges to extend the arrest of suspects, using such important but
sometimes nebulous claims of their potentially endangering public
safety or interfering with legal proceedings. This time the police
were publicly humiliated with the media in the courtroom. Salameh
emphasized in his ruling that none of the 19 protesters posed a threat
to public safety. He also said that some of those suspected of having
committed assault required medical treatment themselves.-rh
| 23/5/2018 |
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Israel’s Premature Celebration: Gazans Have Crossed the Fear Barrier | | Ramzy Baroud - Countercurrents - The international community has
already condemned Trump’s decision to relocate his country’s embassy
to Jerusalem, and declared his recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s
capital ‘null and void’, but will it go further than mere words? Will
the international community remain trapped between hollow statements
and no action? Will they ever truly recognize the humanity of Laila
al-Ghandour and all the other children, men and women who died and
continue to perish under Gaza’s besieged skies? Will they ever care
enough to do something? The plight of the Palestinians is compounded
with the burden of having a useless ‘leadership’. The President of
the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, has been busy of late,
demanding allegiance from the occupied Palestinians in the West Bank.
Large signs and larger banners have been erected everywhere, where
families, professional associations, unions and companies have
announced, in large font: the “Renewal of Loyalty and Support to
President Mahmoud Abbas.”-rh | 23/5/2018 |
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Health Ministry: “Israeli Army Killed 112 Palestinians, Injured13190 Since March 30th” | | IMEMC News - "Dr. Ashraf al-Qedra, the spokesperson of the Palestinian
Health Ministry in the Gaza Strip, has reported Sunday that Israeli soldiers have
killed 112 Palestinians, and injured 13190 since the Great Return March
protests started on the Palestinian Land Day, March 30th, 2018" [ry] | 21/5/2018 |
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ICC must investigate Israel’s crimes against journalists | | Tamara Nassar - EI - "Reporters Without Borders has formally requested that
the International Criminal Court prosecutor investigate the targeting of
journalists in Gaza as war crimes. Targeting of journalists was `deliberate` and
constitutes `war crimes,` Christophe Deloire of Reporters Without Borders said"
[ry] | 21/5/2018 |
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The Guardian view on Gaza shootings: stop killing unarmed civilians | | The Guardian - Editorial - t is inexcusable for soldiers of a
military, especially those under democratic civilian control, to shoot
and kill protesters, almost all of whom were unarmed, and who pose no
credible threat. Yet at the boundary between Gaza and Israel today
Israeli soldiers seem to have done just that. It should make Israelis
quail that demonstrators were sprayed with live ammunition with
apparent impunity. There were dozens of deaths and hundreds of
maimings among the Palestinians who had marched to the border to make
a point about their right to return to their ancestral homes. Israel’s
army evinced no shame in committing what looks like a war crime. These
are serious accusations. Yet they were greeted with little more than a
shrug. By blockading Gaza, Israel imprisoned 2 million people behind
barbed wire and military towers. Israel treated the violence as a
jailer might a prison riot: a tragic fault of the inmates.-rh | 16/5/2018 |
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Here are the questions any journalist talking to the Israeli military should ask | | Yossi Gurvitz - Mondoweiss - The questions any journalist talking to
the IDF Spokesman should be: How many casualties did the IDF suffer in
Gaza? If the number is zero (as it is when these lines were written)
or close to it, then the forces were not in danger, and this was not a
military action but a massacre. How many weapons did the IDF capture,
or at least documented used by the Palestinians? If the number is zero
(and currently it is), or less than the number of people killed or
wounded, then at least some of those shot were not a danger to the
IDF. Given that currently the number is zero, it’s fair to assume none
of those shot presented the IDF gunmen with mortal danger.-rh | 16/5/2018 |
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Mass Murder In Gaza | | Bill Van Auken - Countercurrents - The two events—occurring on the
70th anniversary of Israel’s declaration of independence—were
juxtaposed by the media, broadcast simultaneously on split screens by
television networks. What could not be concealed was the fact that the
opening of the American embassy was entirely in line with and, indeed,
a statement of political support for the massacre taking place at the
security fence separating the impoverished occupied territory from
Israel.-rh | 16/5/2018 |
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Why Jews in solidarity with Palestinians will win the day | | ROBERT A. H. COHEN - Patheos - Because it’s not 1933. Because the
Palestinians are not the Nazis. Because we have not been here before.
Because this is new. Why Jews in solidarity with Palestinians will win
the day. Because you cannot shout about racism here but not there.
Because you cannot care about refugees here but not there. Because
discrimination at the Western Wall matters less than the Apartheid all
around you.Because an Israeli sniper’s bullet is a bigger problem than
an antisemitic tweet. Why Jews in solidarity with Palestinians will
win the day. Because there’s no safety won by theft. Because there’s
no security built on fear. Because democracy for some is not
democracy. Because a nuclear armed ghetto does not normalise the
Jewish condition.-rh
| 16/5/2018 |
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The Two-State Solution: An Autopsy | | Henry Siegman - London Review of Books - The invocation of Israel’s
‘sovereign right’ is the big lie at the heart of America’s
responsibility for the collapse of the peace process. In Gaza, as in
the West Bank beyond the pre-1967 armistice line, Israel is acting not
in accordance with its sovereign right to protect itself, but to
protect its occupation. What Israel’s military restores when it quells
Palestinian protests is not law and order, but illegality and
repression, reinforcing its theft of Palestinian territory in order to
preclude the possibility of a Palestinian state, a goal it has
achieved. Lieberman’s opinion of the value of the lives of
Palestinians mirrors the view expressed by Ayelet Shaked, Israel’s
minister of justice. A year before her appointment in 2015, Shaked
posted on her Facebook page an article by Uri Elitzur, a settler
leader, in which he said that Israel should target not only militants
but the ‘mothers of the martyrs, who send them to hell with flowers
and kisses. They should follow their sons, nothing would be more just.
They should go, as should the physical homes in which the stakes were
raised. Otherwise more little snakes will be raised there.’-rh | 16/5/2018 |
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IDF has ‘enough bullets for everyone,’ senior MK says of deadly Gaza clashes | | STUART WINER and TOI STAFF - The Times of Israel - In an interview by
Hadashot TV news early Monday afternoon, when the death toll in Gaza
stood at 18, MK Avi Dichter, who chairs the powerful Foreign Affairs
and Defense committee, brushed aside a question about the prospect of
the number of dead mounting and Palestinians storming the border.
“[Security forces] won’t let anyone put soldiers, and certainly not
civilians, in danger,” he said. “The IDF has enough bullets for
everyone. I think that ultimately, the means that the IDF prepared,
whether non-lethal, or if needed, lethal, in cases where it’s
justified by the open-fire regulations — there’s enough ammunition for
everyone.”-rh | 16/5/2018 |
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68 Gazans have died while Israel`s High Court deliberates if it`s legal to kill them | | Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man - +972 - The High Court has refrained from
ruling on an urgent petition about whether it is legal for the army to
shoot unarmed, civilian protesters who pose no threat to human life.
They have the blood of 68 people on their hands.-rh | 16/5/2018 |
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I FORGOT, LIKE YOU, TO DIE: 12 PALESTINIAN WRITERS RESPOND TO THE ONGOING NAKBA `GAZA MAKES AN AUDACIOUS CLAIM ON LIFE; ITS PEOPLE CONTINUE TO RESIST` | | Literary Hub - Yesterday, the global Palestinian community marked the
70th anniversary of the Nakba, the catastrophic destruction of the
Palestinian homeland and dispossession of over 750,000 Palestinians
from their homes and villages. Hundreds of villages were depopulated
and razed to the ground, hundreds of thousands of people torn from
their country. They were told by subsequent Israeli administrations—
and most of their Western allies, chief among them the US government—
there is no place for you. But anniversaries are a strange phenomenon
when the past is a living, breathing, and unending current event. One
has only to contrast the besieged Palestinians of Gaza—the site of
months-long mass protests against erasure—with the dystopian paeans to
“peace” and “freedom” at the opening ceremony for the new American
embassy on stolen Palestinian land in Jerusalem to realize how easily
words can be gutted of their meaning. For many Palestinians, the
permission to narrate one’s own stories in their own words has been at
the root of struggle and survival, as important as delineating a
physical space for existence.-rh | 16/5/2018 |
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West’s failure to act will be cause of the next Gaza massacre | | Jonathan Cook - Countercurrents - There was more than a whiff of
hypocrisy too in statements about “defending borders” from a state
that has refused to declare its borders since its creation exactly 70
years ago – as well as from a Netanyahu government currently trying to
establish a Greater Israel over the Palestinian territories. But the
hypocrisy was not restricted to Israel and Washington, which parroted
Mr Netanyahu’s talking points. There was an ugly equivocation from
other western leaders. They spoke of “regret”, “tragedy” and “concern
at the loss of life”, as though an act of God had struck Gaza, not an
order from Israeli commanders to quell the Palestinian urge for
freedom with live ammunition.-rh | 16/5/2018 |
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Israeli forces kill more than 40 Palestinians in Gaza | | Al Jazeera - Highest Palestinian death toll in a day since demonstrations
dubbed the Great March of Return began at the border [ry] | 14/5/2018 |
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Gaza protests: All the latest updates | | Al Jazeera - At least 49 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces since the
Great March of Return protests began on March 30 [ry] | 14/5/2018 |
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Palestine in Pictures: April 2018 | | EI - "Thirty-three Palestinians were fatally injured by Israeli occupation forces
and armed civilians during the month of April. Four others died of injuries
sustained the previous month. All but three of them were killed in Gaza" [ry] | 7/5/2018 |
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Are Palestinian Journalists Being Targeted by Israeli Snipers? | | Ben White - Palestine Chronicle - With two journalists dead and at
least 12 others injured, international criticism of Israeli tactics
grows. Some Palestinian journalists are accusing Israel of
“deliberately” targeting them as they cover the ongoing protests at
the Gaza border. In just five short weeks, two Palestinian journalists
have been killed by Israeli snipers and at least 12 others injured.-rh | 2/5/2018 |
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Arab Leaders Have Abandoned Gaza, Too | | JEET HEER - The New Republic - Saudi Prince Mohammed Bin Salman’s
foreign policy, for instance, is geared towards creating a coalition
to contain Iran, which the crown prince sees as the root of most evil
in the region. In an interview with The Atlantic, he said that “the
Iranian supreme leader makes Hitler look good.” Thus, he seems intent
on pursing a policy of normalizing relations with Iran’s enemy,
Israel, even if it means sidelining the cause of Palestinian statehood
and abandoning Palestinian human rights. “In the last several decades
the Palestinian leadership has missed one opportunity after the other
and rejected all the peace proposals it was given,” Bin Salman
reportedly told a group of Jewish organizations in New York last month
in a private meeting. “It is about time the Palestinians take the
proposals and agree to come to the negotiations table or shut up and
stop complaining.”-rh
| 2/5/2018 |
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Knesset gives power to PM to declare war with single vote backing | | Aljazeera - The Israeli parliament has voted in favour of granting
Israel`s prime minister the power to declare war, solely with the
approval of the defence minister.The vote on Monday amended a law
which previously required the whole cabinet to vote on such a move,
transferring that authority to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and
Avigdor Lieberman, his defence chief.-rh | 2/5/2018 |
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Why rules of engagement on Gaza border must be revoked | | Gilad Grossman - Ynet News - The IDF, the Border Guard and the police
have a variety of non-lethal means for dealing with protests, and
these means can also be used to prevent damage to the fence or an
infiltration into Israel. Firearms should only be used to defend
soldiers’ lives and civilians’ lives. This is not only argued by human
rights organizations and the law; it’s the IDF’s spirit as well. “IDF
soldiers will not use their weapons and force to harm human beings who
are not combatants… and will do all in their power to avoid causing
harm to their lives, bodies, dignity and property,” the IDF’s Code of
Ethics and Mission states.-rh
| 2/5/2018 |
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How American Jews Enable Bibi’s Never-Ending Cycle Of Abuse | | Anshel Pfeffer - Forward - To Netanyahu, Jews who don’t support him
and his vision for Israel are weak, lacking in identity and unlikely
to persevere for another generation. And who says Netanyahu doesn’t
listen to American Jews? Just look at so many of the advisors he has
surrounded himself with over the years, like Ron Dermer, Naftali
Bennett, Ari Harow, Dori Gold, and David Keyes. He has so many
American Jews in his employ that meetings in his office are often
conducted in English instead of Hebrew.-rh
| 2/5/2018 |
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For Netanyahu, Israel’s only problem is Iran | | Akiva Eldar - Al-Monitor - “We have three problems,” Defense Minister
Avigdor Liberman quipped during an April 29 speech in New York, “Iran,
Iran, Iran.” Israel does not have a Palestinian problem, nor problems
of poverty and corruption. Fortunately, there is Iran. Liberman did
not invent the Iranian magic bullet for every ailment. That patent is
registered to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the country’s top
presenter who on April 30 recycled information about Iran’s nuclear
program using amateurish show-and-tell aids. Here is what the prime
minister said three years ago in response to a sharp rebuke by the
government’s watchdog agency, the State Comptroller, on housing policy
failure: “When we talk about the cost of housing, cost of living, I
never forget for one moment life itself.” This is how Netanyahu
dismissed his critics for dealing in minutiae. And what is “life
itself”? The struggle against Iran, of course. “The biggest threat to
our lives now is Iran’s nuclear armament,” Netanyahu went on to
explain on his Facebook page.-rh
| 2/5/2018 |
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Early elections: This is what Netanyahu is afraid of | | Amnon Abramovich - YnetNews - Analysis: The day after the elections,
we’ll likely see the formation of a rightist-centrist group—including
Bennett, Lieberman, Kahlon, Levy-Abekasis and Ya’alon—which will offer
Likud the rule, as long as Likud replaces Netanyahu as its leader.-rh | 2/5/2018 |
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