Who attacked the mosque in Gaza City in which 21 people allegedly died during Israel's counterterrorist Operation Cast Lead last winter in Gaza? The question was one of many debated Thursday night by retired South African Judge Richard Goldstone and former Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Dore Gold at a special event hosted by Brandeis University and broadcast live over the internet. It was...
A senior Hamas official on Wednesday warned of "dangerous consequences" facing the Palestinians if President Mahmoud Abbas went ahead to stage elections without national agreement. "The elections should be held with national understanding for the sake of the Palestinian interest," Khalil al-Hayya said at a news conference in Gaza city. Abbas, who heads Fatah party, has decreed presidential...
If you’re a foreign aid worker with twenty bucks to blow in Gaza City -- something, by the way, few Gazans can do on account of their being totally immiserated by Hamas -- you can buy this commemorative Richard Goldstone...
South African Judge Richard Goldstone's name may be infamous in Israel, but in the Gaza Strip it is sewn onto souvenir Palestinian headscarves in honour of his controversial war inquiry. Tariq Abu Dia, owner of the President Arafat souvenir shop in Gaza City, says Goldstone, who is Jewish, deserves the honour of appearing on the iconic Palestinian keffiyeh made famous by Yasser Arafat, for whom the...
Gaza City - The Islamist Hamas movement denied Wednesday that it has test-fired a long-range rocket capable of striking deep into Israel, saying the claim, made by the head of Israeli military intelligence, was propaganda. Such claims are untrue, ...
A young man looks for his mother’s grave in a cemetery in Beit Lehia that was destroyed by tanks in January. Israel’s three-week-long attack has given rise to charges of war crimes on both sides. Photograph by Christian Als. What really happened during the Israeli attacks? by Lawrence Wright November 9, 2009 New Yorker In southwest Israel, at the border of Egypt and the Gaza Strip, there...
Well, it's nothing special when on terrorist talks to another... 1. On October 28 Fathi Hamad, interior minister of the de facto Hamas administration, gave a speech at a conference in Gaza City sponsored by the Association of Factions and [Trade] Unions. In his speech he described the close ties between Hamas’ interior ministry and the terrorist organizations operating in the Gaza Strip (“the...
Despite being written in semi-legalese, The Goldstone report [warning: 600-page PDF] never ceases to be an interesting read. I keep finding these dry little statements of fact that are either heartbreaking or pithy wordings that somehow encapsulate the breadth of the crimes committed. Here are a couple of the ones I found today. First off, the account of the shelling of the United Nations Relief and...
Volgens andere berichten eist Hamas wel degelijk een deel van de opbrengst op als belasting. Hoe dan ook, het is duidelijk dat de mensen in Gaza niet van de honger omkomen. RP -------------- http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/22/world/middleeast/22rafah.html'_r=3&ref=middleeast The New York Times Rafah Journal Goods Flood Gaza's Tunnels, Turning Border Area Into a Shopping Mecca By TAGHREED EL-KHODARY...
If everyday Palestine especially Gaza Citizen look a war, More than 5,000 fans from around Gaza crammed into the Palestine Stadium in Gaza City for what is an increasingly rare occasion these days: a game of Soccer. The "Gaza Dialogue and Tolerance Cup final" between Al Shate (a mixed team of Hamas and Fatah members that represents the 80,000 strong Al Shate refugee camp) played Al Salah...
Craig Nelson, Associate Editor Hamas yesterday declared that it would not allow elections in the Gaza Strip early next year, further ratcheting tensions between the Islamist movement and Fatah. The Hamas-run interior ministry in Gaza City said last week’s decree by the president, Mahmoud Abbas, calling for parliamentary and presidential voting on January 24 was made “by someone who has...
Israeli forces stormed the Palestinian side of a Gaza commercial crossing and conducted search operations before withdrawing, a Palestinian official said on Monday. During the operation, the Israeli soldiers held nearly 10 Palestinian truck drivers and questioned them, Ra'ed Fatouh, an economy ministry official, told Xinhua. Witnesses said there was no violence before or during the raid at Karni crossing...
It should be noted that the video may be NSFW, but then again there is no true nudity, so most folks will be fine. You won't know what the headline means until the end, so watch it all the way through. We all recall how well the Islamic world handled the cartoons of Muhammad. This led to protests across the Muslim world, some of which escalated into violence with police firing on the crowds (resulting...
By TAGHREED EL-KHODARY RAFAH, Gaza — Dusty sacks filled with cans of Coca-Cola were being loaded onto trucks by young boys, headed for supermarkets in Gaza City. Thousands of motorcycles were lined up on display in a nearby stadium, ranging in price from $2,000 to $10,000. The tunnels emerged as a lifeline for Gaza two years ago. Profits are high, but precarious. Israel regularly bombards the...
Defenseless Palestinians Seek Justice! - By Dr. Abdul Ruff Colachal *** US-led West so far has offered all sorts of support to fascist Israel in its genocides in destructions in Palestine while they criticize lack of democracy in Islamic world. By reigning in the protection of the powerful western powers, Israel goes on rampage in Palestine and terrorizes the Arab world. The crudely pathetic existence...
The MSM, reporting from Gaza City is once again showing its bias against Israel. By reporting an Israeli reaction to an act of violence at the beginning of an article, the intent is to cast the IDF and Israel in the worst possible light. The roadside bomb which killed an Israeli soldier and wounded three others, mentioned initially in the second paragraph without explanation and then in the third paragraph...
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