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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Palestine as Archive
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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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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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نقاش نقدي لتطبيقات النموذج الجنوب إفريقي على فلسطين
أود في هذه المقالة التعرض بالنقاش النقدي لاستخدامات النموذج الجنوب إفريقي لتفسير القضية الفلسطينيةفلسطين قبل العام ١٩٤٨. أما الوجه الاقليمي لتلك السياسيات فهو نشاط لا مثيل له في مضمار أود في هذه المقالة التعرض بالنقاش …
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Reaping What We Have Sown in Gaza
Those who turned Gaza into an internment camp for 1.8 million people should not be surprised when they tunnel underneath the earth.
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No ceasefire without justice for Gaza
from the Electronic Intifada As academics, public figures and activists witnessing the intended genocide of 1.8 million Palestinians living in the Gaza Strip, we call for a ceasefire with Israel only if conditioned on an …