Israel-Palestine Links

Israel-Palestine Links

Gaza

• 'My son lived a worthwhile life'


• Civil War in Gaza Isn’t in Israel’s Interests


• Egypt's Gaza gateway: crossroad of frustration


• Gaza is hungry--and not because of Ramadan


• In Gaza, Palestinians see fruits of labor die


• In Hamas' Gaza, policewomen have to cover up


• Left to Rot in Gaza


• Life in Gaza steadily worsens


• My life in Gaza


• Rachel Corrie Interview (YouTube video)


• Severe shortages stymie life in Gaza


• Sewage glut--another ugly result of Gaza's wars


• Watching 'Friends' in Gaza: A Culture Clash


• When the Lights Went Out in Gaza

Gaza: Breaking the Siege

• 'Dear Palestinian Brothers… Please Return to Gaza'


• Activist boats reach Gaza Strip


• Activists to Test Gaza Naval Blockade


• Breach of Gaza Strip wall highlights failure of U.S.-Israeli policies


• Breaking the Gaza Blockade


• Gaza's falling wall changes Middle East map for ever


• Hamas transforms the regional map


• Intimidation will not stop our boats sailing for Gaza


• Israel may use force to halt boat trying to break Gaza siege


• Israeli police hold Gaza activist


• The day Gaza's Berlin Wall came down


• The People in Gaza Challenge Sham Peace Process


• The Siege of Gaza is Broken

Gaza: Israel's 'Disengagement' and Its Fruits

• 'Disengagement' Will Change Little for Gaza


• Israel's 'invisible hand' in Gaza


• Israel Gone, Yet Still in Gaza's Life


• The settlers' retreat was the theatre of the cynical


• When a Pullout Is Just a Ceasefire

Gaza: The Siege

• 'Gaza is a jail. Nobody is allowed to leave. We are all starving now'


• 'Israel's sanctions strengthen Hamas'


• As Israeli Siege Strangles Gaza Strip, Hamas, Smugglers Profit Off Tunnels


• Blockade frustrates Hamas


• Egypt tunnels sustaining Gaza's economy


• Ending The Stranglehold on Gaza


• Gaza suffers as siege goes on


• Hamas is Not the Real Issue


• Isolated Gaza a jail for its people


• Isolation of Gaza Chokes Off Trade


• Israel's economic blockade stops Gaza's strawberry-farmers selling their crop


• Israel's Encaging of Gaza


• Israeli military formulates plan to limit services to civilians in Gaza


• Palestinians forced to scavenge for food on rubbish dumps


• Poverty Pushing People into Hamas Militia


• The Strangulation of Gaza


• The Strangulation of the Palestinians in Gaza


• The war on Gaza's children


• Worse Than a Crime

Gaza-Israel Conflict

• (Mis-)framing the Gaza-Israel conflict


• 'Kill a Hundred Turks and Rest…'


• A Gaza Masada?


• A One-Sided War


• Aggression Under False Pretenses


• As Israelis Pull Out of Gaza, Hamas Celebrates Its Rocketry


• Gaza's innocents suffer amid the anarchy


• Hamas, long the peace spoiler, finds it hard to halt attacks


• Israel's failed-state strategy


• Militant Hamas as reluctant moderator


• Neturei Karta: Israeli military conducting ethnic cleansing in Gaza


• Rocket strikes punctuate Gaza life


• The Meaning of Gaza's Shoah


• They neither see nor remember

Hamas

• Breakout: Hamas and the end of the two-state solution


• Good news from Gaza


• Hamas, Son of Israel


• Hamas's exiled leader on Syria, Palestinian politics, and Vanity Fair


• Hamas and Democracy


• Hamas and Israel: Rival Twins


• Hamas in call to end suicide bombings


• How do you like your democracy now, Mr. Bush?


• Political Earthquake in Palestine


• The Polls: What the Palestinians Really Voted For


• The Rise of Hamas


• Who Elected Hamas?


• Why Hamas Resists Recognizing Israel


• Youths get military training in Hamas camp

Illegal and Questionable Israeli Conduct

• 'Racist' Marriage Law Upheld by Israel


• Bad Faith and the Destruction of Palestine


• Gaza Doctors Encounter 'Unexplained Injuries'


• Gaza doctors say patients suffering mystery injuries after Israeli attacks


• Gaza in the Vise


• In Palestine, a War on Children


• Israel's Policies Assassinate Jews, Too


• Israel's secret police pressuring sick Gazans to spy for them, says report


• Israel accused of stepping up psychological torture


• Israel and Apartheid


• Israel holding 710 Palestinians under administrative detention


• Israel shaken by troops' tales of brutality against Palestinians


• Israeli army veterans show dark side of occupation


• Israeli ex-soldiers expose abuse of Palestinians


• Israeli military trials impose 'charade' of justice on Palestinian children


• Israeli soldiers kill a Palestinian boy


• Look who's been kidnapped!


• Mysterious wounds from Israel shells


• Palestinians 'face collective punishment'


• Palestinians face more restrictions than ever


• Palestinians live in horror of losing their homes


• Physicians for Human Rights: Only most severely wounded Palestinians allowed into Israel


• Report: Palestinians abandon 1,000 Hebron homes under IDF, settler pressure


• Rights group: Shin Bet lied about interrogations


• Shin Bet admits using relatives to pressure jailed Palestinians


• The 'torture police': Every Shin Bet move is watched by its legal team


• The Hebron confessions


• We Cannot Allow These Murders to go Unpunished


• Why an Economic Boycott of Israel is Justified

Israel's Arab Minority

• 'Marriage to an Arab is national treason'


• Arabs under siege as Israel tightens grip on Holy City


• Caterpillar Fashion


• Civil rights group: Israel has reached new heights of racism


• Day of the Land, 32 Years Later


• For Israel's Arab Citizens, Isolation and Exclusion


• Israel destroys Bedouin homes to make way for Jewish town


• Israel expels record number of east Jerusalem Arabs


• Israeli Arabs discriminated against: Olmert


• Occupation by Bureaucracy


• Prime Minister's Office tells Arab party: We will thwart anti-status quo activity even if legal


• What's Driving the Jerusalem Attacks

Israel's History, Then and Now

• Against Holocaust Denial, Against Naqba Denial


• Embarrassing history


• History Erased


• Israel's Original Sin


• Israel at Sixty


• Israel Is Suppressing a Secret It Must Face


• Lavon Affair


• My Palestinian Wife


• Palestinian plight is flip side of Israel's independence joy


• Sixty and Beyond


• State's Creation Had Ugly Side


• The Apostate


• The country that wouldn't grow up


• The Palestinian Catastrophe, Then and Now


• The Six-Day War, 40 Years Later


• Zionist guerrillas told British: quit Palestine or die

Mohammed Omer

• 'Why did they treat me like that?'


• Award-Winning Palestinian Reporter 'Abused' by Israeli Security Officers


• Mohammed Omer's Statement on His Mistreatment by Shin Bet

Palestinian-Americans and Israel

• Born in Lakeland; detained by Israel


• Israel backs down on visas for Palestinians from U.S.


• Stricter Policy Splits West Bank Families: Americans Who Live There Denied Visas

Sanctions and Scheming Against the Hamas Government

• Embracing a Lethal Tar Baby


• Hamas and the Palestinians: Punishing the Innocent is a Crime


• Handicapping Hamas


• Hurting Peace, Not Hamas


• Palestinian Territories Falling into Chaos


• The Gaza Bombshell


• The Persecution of the Palestinians


• U.S. Freeze on Hamas Aid Carries Humanitarian Price


• U.S. plotted to overthrow Hamas after election victory

Settlements and Settlers

• A West Bank struggle rooted in land


• Behind closed doors, police admit 'turning a blind eye' to settler violence


• Israel building 3,000 new settler homes


• Israel Must Rein in Settler Movement, Protect Palestinian Children


• Israel OKs expansion of Jewish settlements


• Israel redraws the roadmap, building quietly and quickly


• Israel to build new homes on occupied land


• Israeli Interior Ministry: West Bank settler population grew by 6% in 2006


• Israeli settlement activity surges despite 'peace talks'


• Israelis Claim Secret Agreement With U.S. on Settlement Growth


• Many West Bank Settlements on Private Land, Data Shows


• More than one-third of settlements built on private Palestinian land:Report


• Most attacks on Palestinians go unpunished: Israeli group


• Peace Now: West Bank settlement construction nearly doubled this year


• Secret memo shows Israel knew building of settlements on land captured in Six Day War was illegal


• The Struggle Against Jerusalem's Quiet Ethnic Cleansing


• West Bank settlements 'expanding'


• What do you mean when you say 'no'?


• Who Will Stop the Settlements?

Talking to and Engaging with Hamas

• A Case for the Palestinian Government


• Former Mossad Chief Argues for Talks with Hamas: Halevy’s views beyond the pale of American politics


• Good Morning, Hamas


• Is U.S. ignoring the Hamas call for peace?


• Israel, Hamas and the Palestinian Elections


• Hamas Officials Already Recognize Israel's Right to Exist, Apparently


• In defense of foreign aid--for Hamas


• Israel's Mossad, Out of the Shadows


• Israel Says 'No'


• Jimmy Carter Gets the Point


• Majority of Israelis want to negotiate with Hamas


• More Failure for 'Sensible' American Middle East Policy


• No way to avoid Hamas now


• Shalom, Hamas


• Talking to 'terrorists'


• The Hamas Government Should be Recognised


• Why We Cannot Talk With Hamas

The Gazan Fulbright Scholarship Recipients

• Blocking a Gazan’s Path to San Diego


• Gaza 'Fulbright three' lose visas


• Gaza students denied chance to study abroad


• U.S. Tries to Help Three Students Barred from Leaving Gaza

War and Peace Between Israel, the Palestinians, and the Wider Middle East

• 'An Offer that Contains the Issues for Peace with Israel'


• A History of Nonviolence


• After Annapolis


• An Apology: The First Step Toward Lasting Peace?


• Arab states threaten to rescind 2002 Saudi peace initiative


• Beware of Barak


• Bush's Israel Problem--And Ours


• Camp David: The Tragedy of Errors


• Coalition of Evangelicals Voices Support for Palestinian State


• Combatants for peace


• Don't blame Arafat


• God vs. Elliott Abrams


• Hamas's Meshaal offers ten-year truce for Palestinian state on '67 borders


• Hooray, they hate me


• In Defense of Non-Violence


• Is a third intifada brewing?


• Israel and Hamas Just Say No to Peace


• Look Who's Talking


• Mahmoud Abbas's Time Has Passed


• Meshaal: We accept state on 1967 borders


• Occupation by Another Name


• Oslo at 15 Years--A Vanishing Dream


• Palestinian 'gambit' could be prophetic


• Palestinian census carries sobering subtext for Israelis


• Palestinians, Israelis React Differently to Saudi Plan


• Palestinians lose faith in two-state solution


• Peace Is Not Impossible


• Rice Visit Leaves Palestinians Gloomy


• The Devil's Hoof


• The jailer


• What is in the Saudi peace initiative?

West Bank

• 'Our Dreams Are Dead'


• 'This Is Like Apartheid': ANC Veterans Visit West Bank


• A rough guide to Hebron: The world's strangest guided tour highlights the abuse of Palestinians


• A West Bank Town's Fight to Survive


• Arab Aid to Palestinians Often Doesn't Fulfill Pledges


• Israeli sanctions 'will ruin plans to rebuild Palestinian economy'


• King of the West Bank


• Law sets three-year jail penalty for car owners who go to mechanics in West Bank


• Living Off Scraps: The West Bank's Bitter Harvest


• My Trip to the West Bank


• No room at the inn: Christmas bonanza in Bethlehem


• O little (divided) town of Bethlehem


• Palestinians capture violence of Israeli occupation on video


• West Bank Boys Dig a Living in Settler Trash


• West Bank residents face severe water shortage as drought continues


• West Bank tours reveal the grim reality of Israeli occupation


• What Palestinians will do with $7.4 billion in aid

West Bank: The Checkpoints

• Born in the shadow of a checkpoint


• Ex-Israeli Generals Denounce Checkpoints


• For West Bank, It’s a Highway to Frustration


• Israeli restrictions create isolated enclaves in West Bank


• The Legend of the Removed Checkpoints


• Today's Joseph and Mary would face 15 checkpoints


• World Bank: Palestinians will get poorer if roadblocks remain

West Bank: The Wall

• A class divided: Israeli wall runs straight through the playground


• Israel's separation wall unchanged despite Supreme Court rulings


• Israel wall 'hurting farmers'


• Israeli separation barrier is cutting off Palestinians from their livelihood


• Palestinian Authority: Israeli decision to move West Bank wall undermines peace efforts


• Palestinian women forced to give birth at home because of wall


• Palestinians say Israel's barrier 'stealing' land


• Wall guards shoot at journalists


• West Bank: Desperate battle for a permit to work their own land


• West Bank wall severs Palestinian farmers from fields: U.N.

Miscellaneous

• A summer camp for political dissenters in Israel


• Failed States


• Fleeing Bethlehem: Implications of Christian migration from the Holy Land


• George Habash, Palestinian Terrorism Tactician, Dies at 82


• Jews attacking Jews


• Knesset passes stiffer anti-terrorism bills


• NATO’s West Bank Nightmare


• Palestinian group sounds like al-Qaida but forgoes violence


• U.S. Arming of Israel: How U.S. Weapons Manufacturers Profit From Middle East Conflict


• What Obama missed in the Middle East


• Who Owns Passover?