Tag Archives: Gaza

Between four governments*

Randomly, from Ma’an News: the Hamas government in Gaza banned displaying lingerie or pajamas in the windows of stores. It also banned fitting rooms inside those stores or using tinted glass for their windows. This comes shortly after the government banned smoking sheesha for women in public. The Fateh government in Ramallah meanwhile prevents the [...] Related posts:

  1. the blackouts in Gaza are over, for the moment I didn’t know before I came to Gaza how laptop...
  2. Gisha on the “easing of the blockade” for people Via Gisha: As discussion of “easing” the closure of Gaza...
  3. No, I don’t care about the new “mall” in Gaza I did not see the new Gaza “mall” before leaving...
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back in Brooklyn

I am by the way back in Brooklyn, via the Mossad/mukhabarat manning the gate in Rafah. Not pleasant but could have been worse. Only took about 8 or 9 hours to pass from Gaza City to Egyptian Rafah. I will be speaking at a fundraiser for the US Boat to Gaza at the Colony in [...] Related posts:

  1. The Tunnels in Gaza I attempted a translation then recruited assistance from someone...
  2. The State Department’s Ridiculousness I was checking out the State Department’s daily press briefings,...
  3. shalom Israel we’re gonna put something much nicer there when it’s all over Israel’s leadership is astoundingly stupid. Marinated in racism, the leaders...
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murderous sanctions

On the sanctions campaign against Gaza:

The war, when it came, was directed as much against Gaza’s economy as against Hamas militants. Key features of the bombing campaign were designed – as its principal planner, General Gabi Ashkenazi of the Israeli air force, explained to me afterwards – to destroy the ‘critical nodes’ that enabled Gaza [...] Related posts:

  1. US Government Supports Sanctions Against Itself Not literally, no. What the US government is calling for...
  2. matt taylor responds. can we stop discussing “non-violence” please??? Here is Matthew’s response. And mine. Matt, The only person,...
  3. is there a humanitarian crisis in Gaza? not the point Israeli hasbara and the nincompoops who repeat it in the...
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Let the apologies to Goldstone begin

I missed this. After the Israelis came out with their lame investigation saying that they would indict several officers and soldiers in four cases arising from the Gaza conflict of '08-'09, a fairminded South African columnist, Allister Sparks, published an important piece a few days ago, calling on South African rabbis to apologize to Judge [...]
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OK, Chris

Why don’t we dance more? Just look at the kids in these videos: This one is for Chris Gunness of UNRWA — and the kids: Go Gaza! And here, too (the kids, in Rwanda): Where the hell is Matt dot com… And this is the one with 30 million views — the kids, in South Africa; the [...]
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wasn’t the Egyptian wall meant to fail?

Egyptian officials are now openly admitting that the underground steel wall lining the Gaza-Egypt border is porous. Gazan "smugglers" have penetrated the wall hundreds of times and are not remotely troubled by it any longer. The cars that used to be brought through quartered, after which the parts were welded together in Gaza, are now [...] Related posts:

  1. Egyptians and Internationals Rally Against the Wall of Shame The building housing the Egyptian Journalists’ Syndicate is not beautiful....
  2. What Crap, Egypt Egypt is taking a lesson from its financier. You don’t...
  3. We Reject the Egyptian Government’s Offer, Thanks! Gaza Freedom March’s press release After three days of...
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Are they still using “flechette” bombs in Gaza?

It has reportedly happened, again, in Gaza on 21 July – and this report comes via the International Solidarity Movement: “This is a mother describing to us her daughter, 9-year-old Sammah [Eid El-Massry]as she came in to her home at 4pm after the Israeli army reportedly shelled and fired four bombs into and around a [...]
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No, I don’t care about the new “mall” in Gaza

I did not see the new Gaza "mall" before leaving Gaza. I’m sure that like the news sites are reporting, that it is there. Who cares? Here’s who cares. Right-wing bloggers and Zionists are giddy that Gazans have a new place to shop. Jacob Shrybman comments, “Similarly, on the day of the Gaza mall's opening, [...] Related posts:

  1. is there a humanitarian crisis in Gaza? not the point Israeli hasbara and the nincompoops who repeat it in the...
  2. Nakba Day in Gaza Commemorating Nakba Day in Occupied Gaza felt somewhat like...
  3. hurrah for John Ging I tutor a girl at the headquarters of the United...
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Antony Loewenstein & Ali Abunimah: The Real Peace Process

Peace process, proximity talks, one state, two state...though these terms are often tossed around the mass media, they have been rendered virtually meaningless. Instead, we see footage of Benjamin Netanyahu and Barack Obama shaking hands, waxing eloquently on the need for mutual peace as the US simultaneously slips Israeli more tax dollars to further cement their occupation of Palestine.
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William K. Black, Real Peace Process, and Top Secret America

Former regulator, savings & loan investigator, and current Braintruster at the Roosevelt Institute William K. Black says that if Elizabeth Warren isn't appointed to head the consumer protection agency passed as part of the financial reform bill, it will be a clear sign that the agency isn't going to protect consumers at all. While Warren has done the research in the field for 20 years, he notes, other candidates preferred by Treasury Secretary Geithner have fallen more into the Rubin/Summers camp of deregulators.
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