The following article appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald on 2 January: Hundreds of demonstrators gathered on either side of the Israeli-Gazan border to mark a year since Israel’s three-week war in Gaza and to call for an end to the blockade imposed by Israel and Egypt. About 85 demonstrators in Gaza were foreigners, part…
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Some in the American political elite want to help Gaza (but you can count them on one hand)
When one thinks of the American political elite, it’s far too easy (and correct) to presume that the vast majority of Congressmen and women are either utterly petrified of the Zionist lobby or simply believe that Israel’s occupation policies are acceptable. A few do not, including Brian Baird and Keith Ellison, and they should be…
Viva Palestina inches closer to Gaza
The Viva Palestina trip from London is destined to bring aid, supplies and support to the people of Gaza. Like the Gaza Freedom March, the Egyptians halted their plans but they seem to now be making their way towards the Strip:
The Guardian covers the Gaza Freedom March
Following extensive global media coverage of our massive Cairo protest on 31 December to protest the siege on Gaza, the Guardian also filmed proceedings but didn’t cover the violence handed out to us by Egyptian security services.
We can kill Palestinians with impunity, says Israeli
The depth of depravity in certain sections of the Israeli elite is stripped bare with this shocking piece published in Yediot. It doesn’t really need an introduction, except to say that such rhetoric will simply continue to isolate Israel even further. And they deserve it: A year has passed since Operation Cast Lead. The Gaza…
Press TV shows the Egyptian response to a peaceful rally over Palestine
Some good footage from Press TV yesterday that captured the brutality shown by the Egyptian security forces to a peaceful protest for the Gaza Freedom March in central Cairo. US aid going to good use:
Israeli asks whether his country wants to regain its lost morality
Michael Sfard is the legal adviser of Yesh Din, a leading Israeli human rights organisation. He gave the following speech, via Combatants for Peace on 26 December, in Jaffa. His words are translated by the Middle East News Service editor Sol Salbe: It has been a year, just one year since, but we can already…
Gaza will be free in our life-time
What the Gaza Freedom March is all about: My photos from the last week in Cairo are here.
Australian eyewitness report from Gaza
Some of the Gaza Freedom Marchers entered Gaza a few days ago (this was a painful and politically fraught decision and here’s why). Australian Donna Mulhearn was one of them and here’s her moving report of life in Gaza: The boy in the rubble and Gaza’s Tour of Horror He wasn’t like the other boys…