Now it's time for the rest of the world to pitch in.
BY HUSSEIN IBISH
Senior Fellow at the American Task Force on Palestine (ATFP) and Executive Director of the Hala Salaam Maksoud Foundation for Arab-American Leadership.
Recommended Readings: June 2010 Archives
By Jo-Ann Mort - June 4, 2010
There is a lot of misinformation flying around about what is going on in Gaza. Didn't Israel evacuate Gaza? Are people in Gaza starving? What is going on with the Egyptian side of the border? Does Hamas want peace with Israel or not? Is the current blockade stopping arms from entering Gaza via Iran? I hope that those who read this post read it carefully. It would be great to engage in useful, intelligent dialogue on this site.
There is a lot of misinformation flying around about what is going on in Gaza. Didn't Israel evacuate Gaza? Are people in Gaza starving? What is going on with the Egyptian side of the border? Does Hamas want peace with Israel or not? Is the current blockade stopping arms from entering Gaza via Iran? I hope that those who read this post read it carefully. It would be great to engage in useful, intelligent dialogue on this site.
Continue reading Dissent Magazine & TPM: "End the Gaza Blockade".
by Rabbi Sharon BrousI am certain that I am not the only person who left Sunday's Solidarity Rally for Israel with a profound sense of unease. While I was not greeted with boos and jeers, like Peace Now's David Pine (my speech elicited more confusion: "Wait, she's a rabbi. Isn't she on our side? What does she mean, 'We can do better'?"), I was devastated by what I can only understand to be a tragic narrowing of the American Jewish heart and mind.
ARAD, Israel
For 2,000 years, the Jews knew the force of force only in the form of lashes to our own backs. For several decades now, we have been able to wield force ourselves -- and this power has, again and again, intoxicated us.
For 2,000 years, the Jews knew the force of force only in the form of lashes to our own backs. For several decades now, we have been able to wield force ourselves -- and this power has, again and again, intoxicated us.
Continue reading New York Times: "Israeli Force, Adrift on the Sea" by Amos Oz.
Relations with Turkey will probably deteriorate further, and there may even be serious damage on the official level.
When a regular, well-armed, well-trained army goes to war against a "freedom flotilla" of civilian vessels laden with civilians, food and medication, the outcome is foretold - and it doesn't matter whether the confrontation achieved its goal and prevented the flotilla from reaching Gaza.
When a regular, well-armed, well-trained army goes to war against a "freedom flotilla" of civilian vessels laden with civilians, food and medication, the outcome is foretold - and it doesn't matter whether the confrontation achieved its goal and prevented the flotilla from reaching Gaza.
Continue reading Ha'aretz Editorial: "The price of flawed policy".
"The closure of Gaza is the consequence of a clumsy, calcified policy, which resorts by default to the use of massive force"David Grossman is a renowned Israeli author and peace activist
Posted by Peter Beinart, author of The Icarus Syndrome: "A History of American Hubris", and the recent article "The Failure of the American Jewish Establishment", on the Gaza flotilla:
Don't blame the commandos for the flotilla disaster. Blame Israel's leaders, who enforce the cruel and corrupt Gaza embargo, and their supporters in America.
"If the soul is left in darkness, sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin but he who causes the darkness."
Continue reading Daily Beast: "Don't blame the commandos for the flotilla disaster...".
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