Articles in Gaza/March 7,2008
US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation Condemns H.Res.951 March 6, 2008
On March 5, the House of Representative passed by a vote of 404-1 H.Res.951, a biased, one-sided resolution on the situation in the Israeli-occupied Palestinian Gaza Strip. Read the US Campaign’s analysis of this resolution, learn more about what we did to protest it, and how you can take action.Read More »
A defeated policy, not a defeated people
Ali Abunimah, The Electronic Intifada, 7 March 2008 Here
The fallacy that lies behind the differential concern for the lives of innocent Israelis and Palestinians is thatthe massacre in Jerusalem and the massacres in Gaza can be separated. Israeli deaths are “terrorism,” while Palestinian deaths are merely an unfortunate consequence of the fight against “terrorism.” But the two are intricately linked, and what happened in Jerusalem is a direct consequence of what Israel has been doing to the Palestinians for decades.
THE MEGA PRISON OF PALESTINE
By Ilan Pappe, The Electronic Intifada, 5 March 2008 Here
In several articles published by The Electronic Intifada, I claimed that Israel is pursuing a genocidal policy against the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. The argument was that since Israel does not know how to deal with the Gaza Strip, they opted for a knee-jerk reaction in the form of massive killings whenever the Palestinians in the Strip dared to protest their strangulation and imprisonment. The end result so far is the escalation of the indiscriminate killing of Palestinians — unfortunately validating the adjective “genocidal” I and
others attached to these policies.
Rights Group: More than 50% of Gaza casulties weren’t militants by Haaretz Service Here
The human rights organization B’Tselem on Monday said in a statement that more than half of the Palestinians killed in the Gaza Strip in Israel Defense Forces operations in recent days did not take an active part in the fighting. This statement came after the IDF Chief of Staff issued a statement saying that 90 percent of those killed were in fact armed militants.