January 2009
by Phan Nguyen
On December 27, 2008, Israel initiated a military invasion of the Gaza Strip that after nine days has left over 500 Palestinians dead and over 2,000 wounded. The attack was named “Operation Cast Lead” in reference to a children’s Hanukkah song.
Once the attack began, a simplified narrative emerged to explain the circumstances:
1. Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip had a ceasefire agreement.
2. Hamas irrationally and inexplicably decided to violate the cease-fire by raining rockets on civilian areas in Israel.
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January 2009
by Nir Rosen
I have spent most of the Bush administration’s tenure reporting from Iraq, Afghanistan, Lebanon, Somalia and other conflicts. I have been published by most major publica-tions. I have been interviewed by most major networks, and I have even testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. The Bush administration began its tenure with Palestinians being massacred and it ends with Israel committing one of its largest massacres yet in a 60-year history of occupying Palestinian land. Bush’s final visit to the country he chose to occupy ended with an educated secular Shiite . . .
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December 2008
by Amy Goodman
As President-elect Barack Obama focuses on the meltdown of the U.S. economy, another fire is burning: the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
You may not have heard much lately about the disaster in the Gaza Strip. That silence is intentional: The Israeli government has barred international journalists from entering the occupied territory. Last week, executives from the Associated Press, New York Times, Reuters, CNN, BBC and other news organizations sent a letter of protest to Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert criticizing his government's decision to bar journalists from entering Gaza.
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June 2008
by Marco Rosaire Rossi
Within Israel the Jewish National Fund is seen as a respectable ecological agency. The purpose of the organization is to maintain Israeli national parks as places of ecological conservation and recreation. The JNF ensures the preservation and prosperity of pines, orchards, cactuses - even fig and almond trees. They have constructed picnics and playgrounds – all designed in an eco-friendly manner – and provide eco-tours that allow Israelis to enjoy the delicacy of mother earth while minimizing one’s ecological foot-print. The only problem with the areas under JNF control . . .
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