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Why the Gaza war is a crime against the State of Israel

12 Jan 2009 8 minute read

This article is almost 15 years old.

Why the Gaza war is a crime against the State of Israel

Uri Avnery considers the role of propaganda in the war on Gaza. The battle for the TV screen is one of the decisive battles of...

Christmas in Palestine

22 Dec 2008 3 minute read

This article is almost 15 years old.

Christmas in Palestine

Although Gazan Christians
remain tentative about their future, they say are not living in fear.

4 Dec 2008 3 minute read

This article is more than 15 years old.

Absurdistan

Israels full-scale closure of the Strip has lasted 28 days, with no sign of a
let-up, and life inside Gaza gets grimmer...

When oh when will I get back home?

28 Nov 2008 3 minute read

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When oh when will I get back home?

Twenty days on and the Gaza Strip is still closed. Everyone who lives in Gaza is either locked in, or out.

Choking the life out of Gaza

21 Nov 2008 3 minute read

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Choking the life out of Gaza

Israel is responsible for a hell of a lot of the misery and human rights violations in the Gaza Strip: but Hamas is also...

18 Nov 2008 3 minute read

This article is more than 15 years old.

Zift

Gaza is not facing a humanitarian crisis: this is a human rights
crisis.

All prisons are penetrable

4 Nov 2008 2 minute read

This article is more than 15 years old.

All prisons are penetrable

The international media has devoured the story of Palestinian and
international human rights activists, doctors...

28 Oct 2008 3 minute read

This article is more than 15 years old.

Tunnel fever

As a consequence of the illegal siege, many Gazans are literally going underground to circumvent the border controls that keep...

Wish I was there

15 Oct 2008 3 minute read

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Wish I was there

I am stranded and can’t get home. I left Gaza early Friday morning,
before the border at Erez closed, and thought I...

The beauty of a rope harness

7 Oct 2008 2 minute read

This article is more than 15 years old.

The beauty of a rope harness

The festival of Eid al-Fitr ended a couple of days ago, and most of us
in Gaza have just dragged ourselves back to work...

Palestinian ambulance

1 Oct 2008 1 minute read

This article is more than 15 years old.

Palestinian ambulance

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So... how do you resist the occupation?

29 Sep 2008 2 minute read

This article is more than 15 years old.

So... how do you resist the occupation?

Resistance to the Israeli occupation of Palestine comes in many forms:
every Friday, Israeli, Palestinian and...

20 Sep 2008 2 minute read

This article is more than 15 years old.

Get plucked!

As she scanned my overgrown eyebrows, tweezers in hand, the beautician
berated me for my laziness. ‘You should have come...

Ramadan... Ramadan

9 Sep 2008 3 minute read

This article is more than 15 years old.

Ramadan... Ramadan

The month of Ramadan began about ten days ago. Most of my colleagues
are fasting, as are most of my friends, though – as...

The boat people who came… and couldn’t leave

3 Sep 2008 2 minute read

This article is more than 15 years old.

The boat people who came… and couldn’t leave

When two small fishing vessels sailed into Gaza Port on 23 August with their renegade crews of international solidarity...

So now it’s OK to shell journalists in Palestine

22 Aug 2008 2 minute read

This article is more than 15 years old.

So now it’s OK to shell journalists in Palestine

Four months ago, on April 16, the Israeli military carried out two separate attacks against groups of civilians in Juhor al-...

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