Yousef Munayyer in The New Yorker: Sooner or later, hopefully sooner, the all-too-familiar scenes of violence in the Gaza Strip—the sight, on Sunday, of children’s bodies being pulled from a flattened house; the rocket launches—will temporarily stop. As after every round that preceded this, a ceasefire will eventually be reached. The question is what we…
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“We don’t target journalists” except when we do
Note to mainstream reporters: challenge Israeli government lies, like here on Al Jazeera English against Israeli propagandist Mark Regev:
Memo to journalists over Gaza; it ain’t hard to avoid “balanced” reporting
Robert Fisk on the latest round of Israeli aggression against Gaza: Terror, terror, terror, terror, terror. Here we go again. Israel is going to “root out Palestinian terror” – which it has been claiming to do, unsuccessfully, for 64 years – while Hamas, the latest in “Palestine’s” morbid militias, announces that Israel has “opened the…
“The time for bombing is over”
Gideon Levy in Haaretz: The Palestinian people want to be free of the occupation. Life is like that sometimes. But how to accomplish that? At first they tried doing nothing. For 20 years they were idle, and indeed nothing happened. They then tried rocks and knives, the first intifada. And still nothing happened, except for…
MSNBC features, shock horror, Palestinians talking about massacre in Gaza
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