Advertisements Quite frankly, the Goldstone Report on the Israeli devastation of the Gaza Strip and Hamas rocket firing during what was called Operation Cast Lead has been a fiasco of politicization from day one. Back in November of 2009, I wrote a piece looking at some of the basic flawsContinue Reading
Advertisements It is not easy being the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights in Gaza. It is impossible for them to issue any statement that doesn’t become instantly politicized. And, like many NGOs, their reports are often put in less than ideal contexts by the media. Much like their counterparts —Continue Reading
Advertisements American leaders continue to demonstrate that changes in the rest of the world, and the deep flaws in our foreign policy which they reveal, will have no impact on our thinking whatsoever. The latest case in point is the position staked out by Senators John McCain (R-AZ) and JoeContinue Reading
Advertisements Prior to Operation Cast Lead, the devastating Israeli attack on Gaza in 2008-09, there had been six months of a truce which both sides claimed the other did not maintain in good faith. Still, the truce endured. When Israel escalated the tensions on November 4, 2008, killing six HamasContinue Reading
Advertisements The PLO’s spokesman, Saeb Erekat, released a statement today in response to Al Jazeera’s publication of The Palestine Papers. The release is pasted below. The statement would seem, at least at this early stage, to reflect genuine panic on Erekat’s part. The standard denial of something having been “takenContinue Reading
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