Mohammed Omer: Operation Cast Lead Is Over, But the Nightmare Continues

Abdullah (in red shirt) and his little brother (r) play “Arabs and Israelis” with their friends in the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah. (Photo M. Omer)


The Sept. 6, 2010 issue of the leading German newspaper Der Spiegel included the article "Studies Show Nurture at Least as Important as Nature" by Joerge Blech on the findings of a groundbreaking study on intelligence. Researchers found that prolonged poverty, stress and other environmental factors—including war and the deprivation of basic needs—directly affect a child's intelligence and, therefore, his or her life prospects.

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Dr. David Halpin: Silence is Complicity: The methodical shooting of boys at work in Gaza by snipers of the Israeli Occupation Force

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They Listen to our criticism after all

A few days ago I published an expose of Captain Israel, a new Jewish racist comic magazine. I also mentioned the names of the Jewish organisations and sponsors as listed by the Jewish magazine publisher.

Earlier on today, the Foundation For Jewish Culture contacted me. They wanted to disassociate themselves from the new Jewish comic magazine.  Someone out there starts to feel the heat. I guess that our criticism may fall on some attentive ears after all,

Here is the letter from Ester Bloom@ Foundation for Jewish Culture:

Dear Gilad,

I saw your piece on OnlineJournal and wanted to correct a misunderstanding. Although the Foundation for Jewish Culture was a nominal supporter of a project several years ago called "Team SuperJews," through the UJC and the Federation/Alliance, that project ended in 2008.

This new Captain Israel comic book is a product of StandWithUs, a completely separate and different organization with no ties to us at all. The confusion seems to stem from the fact that "Team SuperJews" had, and the new StandWithUs comic book have, main characters called "Captain Israel." But we have no relationship to the comic book or to StandWithUs.

Let me know if you have any further questions.

Thanks,

Ester

Ester Bloom

Program Associate

Foundation for Jewish Culture

www.jewishculture.org



Melanie Philips: “Israeli Hasbara is a joke”

It is almost amusing to hear Philips dismissing Hasbara (Israeli propaganda) in Britain.

It is also very cheering to learn from rabid Zionist Philips that in spite of the Israeli Lobby, David Aaronovitch, Nick Cohen and herself, the Palestinians are winning the hearts and minds of British public. 

I guess that it is about time Philips gathers the fact that humanism may win after all. 



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Vera Macht Reports From Gaza: Amjad – The Next Victim in Gaza Buffer Zone

It took eight days. Eight days since the last innocent was killed. You watch people die here one after another, getting killed one by one, without consequences, without justice, without an outcry in the media. Innocent people who have never done anything wrong in their lives other than try to make a living from something amidst the stifling four year siege. Civilians. Palestinian civilians, whose life doesn’t seem to be worth more than an entry in the statistics. And you feel like your hands are tied. “So that’s what I can do: register it in my notebook. It is registered, and there is an empty line after Shaban’s name. That is for those who they kill tomorrow”, wrote the American writer Max Ajl after the farmer Shaban Karmout was killed. It took eight days, and the place was filled. Amjad ElZaaneen, was 17 years when he was killed today. Too young, too early, too meaningless, too many names in all of our laptops.

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Gilad Atzmon: Can A Criminal State Deal With War Criminals?

Haaretz reported today that Israeli citizen Aleksander Cvetkovic, 42, is suspected of participating in the murder of at least 1,000 Bosnian Muslims at the Branjevo farm near the city of Zvornik.

Cvetkovic, 42, was arrested at the request of the Bosnia-Herzegovina government. He is suspected of participating in the murder of between 1,000 and 1,200 Bosnian Muslims at the Branjevo farm near the city of Zvornik. This was one of a series of mass murders over a 10-day period of the Bosnian War that are collectively known as the Srebrenica Massacre. In 2006, Cvetkovic immigrated to Israel with his Jewish wife and received citizenship.

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Rafeef Ziadeh : Poetry against Israeli Barbarism (must watch)

Vera Macht Reports from Gaza: Life and death in the buffer zone

Death comes quickly at a place like this. On sunny winter days, when the smell of the night’s rain is still in the air, as if it would have brought some hope for the raped, barren land of Gaza, overrun hundreds of times by Israeli tanks and bulldozers. The land between the foothills of the village of Bait Hanoun and the Israeli border, guarded by watchtowers, soldiers, snipers, helicopters and drones. A land in which death is a regular guest. 
But despite all that, the 65-year-old Shaban Karmout probably had something like hope when he woke up on that winter morning. His house is in exactly this 300 meter wide strip of land in the so-called buffer zone.  He has built his house 40 years ago, in 1971, when Gaza was already occupied by Israel, and yet he had thought to have a future there for himself and his family. Shaban began to plant fruits, his land was full of palms and trees, lemon, orange, clementine and almond trees were growing there. He had a good life.

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Palestinian child attacked by Israeli settler

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