Gaza‏

Ilan Pappe: Israel's righteous fury and its victims in Gaza http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article10100.shtml

Obama's deadly silence http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article10097.shtml [A]s more than 2,400 Palestinians have been killed or injured -- the majority civilians -- since Israel began its savage bombardment of Gaza on 27 December, Obama has maintained his silence. "There is only one president at a time," his spokesmen tell the media. This convenient excuse has not applied, say, to Obama's detailed interventions on the economy, or his condemnation of the "coordinated attacks on innocent civilians" in Mumbai in November. [...] Despite pervasive wishful thinking that Obama would abandon America's pro-Israel bias, his approach has been almost indistinguishable from the Bush administration's. [...] The problem is much wider than Obama: American liberals in general see no contradiction in espousing positions supporting Israel that they would deem extremist and racist in any other context.

Israeli warplanes destroy Gaza houses and mosque as air strikes continue http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jan/02/israel-gaza-attacks

Palestinian police ban pro-Hamas rallies in West Bank http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1052273.html Palestinian police violently cracked down on protests organized by their rivals in Hamas throughout the West Bank on Friday as rallies against Israeli air strikes in Gaza turned into demonstrations against the Palestinian Authority. [...] Abbas, together with his allies in Egypt and Saudi Arabia, have blamed Hamas for bringing the attacks on themselves by repeatedly firing rockets into Israel. These criticisms, though, have angered many in the face of Israel's assaults.

Is the UN complicit in Israel's massacre in Gaza? http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article10089.shtml Not only has the UN Secretary-General betrayed the very Charter of the UN and all relevant international law principles by failing to even condemn Israel's massacre of civilians and targeting of civilian institutions and residential neighborhoods; the entire UN system has so far dealt with it as a "war" between two relatively symmetric forces, where the mightier side has sufficient justification to "defend itself," but should do so more proportionately, while the weaker side is chiefly responsible for triggering the "armed conflict."

Critical emergency' after air strike every 20 minutes http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jan/03/gaza-infrastructure- humanitarian-crisis short link: http://twiturl.de/twenty

Land, sea, sky: all will kill you http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jan/03/israel-palestinians-gaza- attacks short link: http://twiturl.de/nabulsi

If Gaza falls ... (1 January 2009) http://www.lrb.co.uk/v31/n01/roy_01_.html Israel’s siege has two fundamental goals. One is to ensure that the Palestinians there are seen merely as a humanitarian problem, beggars who have no political identity and therefore can have no political claims. The second is to foist Gaza onto Egypt. That is why the Israelis tolerate the hundreds of tunnels between Gaza and Egypt around which an informal but increasingly regulated commercial sector has begun to form.

Tariq Ali (4 March 2004):To be Intimidated is to be an Accomplice Notes on Anti-Semitism, Zionism and Palestine http://www.counterpunch.org/ali03042004.html

No, it’s not anti-semitic (21 August 2003) http://www.lrb.co.uk/v25/n16/butl02_.html