Gaza‏, Jan 5/09

The Gaza Ghetto Uprising http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article10110.shtml

It is now recognized that Israel's 1967 invasion of Egypt aimed successfully to destroy Gamal Abdul-Nasser, the enemy of all US dictatorial allies among the Arab regimes ... Israel thus rendered a great service to Arab monarchies (and a few republics) from "the ocean to the Gulf," whose survival was threatened by Nasser and Nasserism. Israel's subsequent intervention in Jordan in 1970 to help the Jordanian army destroy Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) guerrillas and its final crushing of that organization in its massive invasions of Lebanon in 1978 and 1982 were also important services it rendered to these same regimes ... Israel's services to Arab regimes continue apace. Its 2006 invasion of Lebanon, engineered to destroy Hizballah, was cheered by Arab regimes and neoliberal Arab intellectuals hostile to Hizballah and employed exclusively by Saudi media outlets. ... The Bahraini foreign minister suggested a few weeks ago that Israel join the Arab League. ... Since 2006, Arab regimes, neoliberal Arab intellectuals, as well as the Palestinian Collaborationist Authority (PCA) in Ramallah have reached an understanding that only Israel will be able to save them from Hizballah and Hamas, both organizations constituting a threat to the open alliance Arab regimes have with the US and Israel against Iran and all progressive forces in the region. ... A veritable open alliance now exists between the Palestinian Collaborationist Authority, Arab regimes, and Israel with the support of neoliberal Arab intellectuals, wherein Israel is subcontracted to decimate the Hamas government -- the only democratically elected government in the entire Arab world.

On collaboration and resistance of the oppressed http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article10103.shtml

Hosni Mubarak's government in Egypt and the unelected PalestinianAuthority in Ramallah have actively colluded with Israel, first tounsuccessfully overthrow Hamas from Gaza through force and then to chokethe Palestinians in Gaza by denying them basics such as food, cleanwater, medical treatment and a decent education.

Azmi Bishara: Statement on the Gaza Situation http://www.alternativenews.org/news/english/statement-on-the-gaza- situation-20090104.html (short link: http://twiturl.de/bishara)

[Azmi Bishara is a Palestinian member of the Israeli Knesseth]

Israeli Offensive in the Gaza Strip: Before the Next Stage http://www.alternativenews.org/news/english/israeli-offensive-in-the- gaza-strip-before-the-next-stage-20090101.html (short link: http://twiturl.de/stage)

Israeli demands require Hamas to choose between humiliation and death. However, in response, Hamas forces Israel to choose between genocide and defeat. At the current stage, only the physical elimination of the movement’s membership will prevent Hamas from leading the national liberation movement. Israel can achieve a military victory over Hamas, but only through genocide. Up to certain extent, this is the meaning of the demands of the Israeli public as expressed in the Hebrew press.

The Aggression towards Gaza and the Official European Discourse http://www.alternativenews.org/blogs/nassar-ibrahim/aggression- towards-gaza-and-the-official-european-discourse-this-how-politics- disfigure-the-false-moral-set-20090105.html (short link: http://twiturl.de/nasser)

Given the Palestinian blood flowing in the streets of the Gaza Strip as a result of the ongoing Israeli war of aggression, the vague, diplomatic language and meticulously selected terms being employed by European governments lose all their value, becoming mere justification and protection for Israel’s actions.

International community giving Israel time to weaken Hamas in Gaza http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1052330.html Hebrew: העולם נותן לישראל זמן http://www.haaretz.co.il/hasite/spages/1051941.html

Gideon Levy: And there lie the bodies http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1052348.html Hebrew: נהר של דם עד עזה http://www.haaretz.co.il/hasite/spages/1052433.html

The moral voice of restraint, if it ever existed, has been left behind. Even if Israel wiped Gaza off the face of the earth, killing tens of thousands in the process, [...] one can assume that there would be no protest.

Amira Hass: No humanitarian crisis in Gaza? http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1052606.html

Khaled Hroub: A “New Hamas” through Its New Documents (Summer 2006) http://www.palestine-studies.org/journals.aspx? id=7087&jid=1&href=fulltext (short link: http://twiturl.de/hroub)

Since Hamas won the Palestinian legislative elections in January 2006, its political positions as presented in the Western media hark back to its 1988 charter, with almost no reference to its considerable evolution under the impact of political developments. The present article analyzes (with long verbatim extracts) three recent key Hamas documents: its fall 2005 electoral platform, its draft program for a coalition government, and its cabinet platform as presented on 27 March 2006. Analysis of the documents reveals not only a strong programmatic and, indeed, state building emphasis, but also considerable nuance in its positions with regard to resistance and a two-state solution.

Michael Warschawski: Blaming the “Two Sides”: Worse than the Killers http://www.alternativenews.org/blogs/michael-warschawski/blaming-the- two-sides-worse-than-the-killers-20081230.html (short link: http://twiturl.de/warsch)

In order to show concern, Europe is sending (symbolic) humanitarian assistance to the population of Gaza. While listening to French Foreign Affairs Minister Bernard Kouchner supporting the Israeli action, while simultaneously announcing the decision to send humanitarian supplies to Gaza, I could not but remember the broadcasted International Red Cross delegations coming to Nazi extermination camps with chocolate and cookies. I know, it is not at all the same, but no-one can control his mind's associations… Bernard Kouchner, however, has one extenuating circumstance: the Arab regimes, in particular Hosni Mubarak's, are also supporting the Israeli aggression. And they also will send chocolate and cookies to the children of Gaza. Except, of course, to those lying dead in Shifa hospital.

The Predictable Trajectory of Israeli Public Opinion http://www.alternativenews.org/news/english/the-predictable- trajectory-of-israeli-public-opinion-20090101.html (short link: http://twiturl.de/atinsky)

International Intervention Now! http://www.alternativenews.org/blogs/michael-warschawski/ international-intervention-now-20081231.html (short link: http://twiturl.de/now)

The holy crusade for the defense of human rights has one interesting articularity: one possesses the right to violate every single human right, in order to defend human rights. Beginning with the right to life. The international community has given a green light to the state of Israel to massacre hundreds of Palestinian women, men and children in order to protect human rights from Islam in Gaza, as it is doing in Afghanistan and in Iraq.

Do Israel pilots feel happy killing innocent women and children? http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jan/03/gaza-diary-israel

A Palestinian in Gaza chronicles life under Israeli bombardment

Six children among 12 killed in mosque blast http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jan/04/mosque-blast-gaza

Scenes of carnage as Israeli shells strike crowd of civilians who were leaving evening prayers

Tanks, rockets, death and terror: a civilian catastrophe unfolding http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jan/05/civilian-catasrophe-gaza

John Ging, the head of the UN relief agency in Gaza, described the situation there as "inhuman". "We have a catastrophe unfolding in Gaza for the civilian population," he said. "The people of Gaza City and the north now have no water. That comes on top of having no electricity. They're trapped, they're traumatised, they're terrorised by this situation ... The inhumanity of this situation, the lack of action to bring this to an end, is bewildering to them." The UN has been particularly angered at the contention of the Israeli foreign minister, Tzipi Livni, that there is no humanitarian crisis in Gaza. Ging also accused Israel of a campaign of destroying public buildings vital to the administration and governance of Gaza. "The whole infrastructure of the future state of Palestine is being destroyed," he said. "Blowing up the parliament building. That's the parliament of Palestine. That's not a Hamas building. The president's compound is for the president of Palestine."

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