“There are so many people, families, fleeing - many barefoot - trying to reach some place safe which hasn’t been hit. But everywhere has been hit,” says Abuelneen.
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Palestinians left facing the odds alone after ceasefire
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Palestine as Archive
These are but a few of the scenes of Gaza 2014. They are painful in their immediacy. But their familiarity is also a source of injury. They do not belong to this time or this place alone. They are instances in what is now a century-long confrontation with colonialism. They are part of an archive that is the Palestinian condition. In the immediate present, to live in Gaza is to live in perpetual search for refuge.
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Unthinkable Thoughts in the Debate About ISIS in Iraq
What unites marginalized Sunnis in Iraq and the hardcore ideologues within ISIS is their desperation to be rid of Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki, who has left them with no choice but to operate outside of the political system in order to better their lives.
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Liberal Zionism After Gaza
from The New York Review of Books by: Jonathan Freedland Majdi Fathi/NurPhoto/Corbis Destroyed houses in the Shejaia neighborhood of Gaza City, July 26, 2014 Never do liberal Zionists feel more torn than when Israel is at …
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Gaza Will Take Years To Recover From Israeli Attacks, Experts Say
by: Ibraheem Abu Mustafa JERUSALEM — Gaza will need years to recover from the damage inflicted upon the strip by nearly three weeks of Israeli bombardment, United Nations experts say, as a brief cease-fire this …
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Five Israeli Talking Points on Gaza—Debunked
from The Nation by Noura Erakat Israel has killed almost 800 Palestinians in the past twenty-one days in the Gaza Strip alone; its onslaught continues. The UN estimates that more than 74 percent of those …
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Not just numbers: online memorial publishes names, faces of Palestinians killed in Gaza
from the Electronic Intifada by Ali Abunimah Qassem Talal Hamdan, 23, was killed on 13 July 2014 in Beit Hanoun in northern Gaza. An engineering student, his “dream was to be a successful engineer to …
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Why do Palestinians continue to support Hamas despite such devastating losses?
I know of many Palestinians who do not like Hamas. Yet for them, the Gaza war is about the siege – part of their own war of independence. Israelis refuse to get that.
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Can Palestinian Men be Victims? Gendering Israel’s War on Gaza
Every morning we wake up to an updated butcher’s bill: one hundred, two hundred, four hundred, six hundred Palestinians killed by Israel’s war apparatus. These numbers gloss over many details: the majority of Gazans, one of …
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Ending Zionism is a feminist issue
by: Nada Elia from The Electronic Intifada As Israel’s assault on the besieged Palestinian population in Gaza approaches its third week, we continue to hear about the “disproportionate number” of women and children victims. This expression …
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