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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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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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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Palestine is Still the Issue | Interview – The Angry Arab on Zionism, Syria, and more
He is known for his radical leftist political stances and, in particular, his emphatic support for the Palestinian struggle. However, he has recently received criticism from readers and former fans for his stance on …
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Sharif Abdel Kouddous: 72 Die in Shejaiya
The Israeli assault on the Gaza Strip has seen its bloodiest day so far, bringing the Palestinian death toll to more than 500. More than 100 Palestinians were killed in a 24-hour period between Saturday …
