water | Israel Palestine News

Search Results for: water

Peter Beinart: Jewish leaders encase Israel’s actions in Gaza in euphemism and lies

[email protected] April 30, 2018 Gaza, Peter Beinart, Return March, The Forward

How can American Jews endorse the strangulation of 2 million human beings in Gaza? Because Jewish leaders, in both Israel and the United States, encase Israel’s actions in a fog of euphemism and lies.The organized American Jewish community doesn’t only conceal the truth about Gaza from itself. It lobbies American politicians to do the same. The three main talking points: that Israel “withdrew” from Gaza, that its actions are decreed by a need for “security,” and that “Hamas” is to blame. Let’s look at the real facts:

Read the rest of this entry

Facts & latest news on Gaza Great March of Return (periodically updated)

[email protected] April 29, 2018 casualties, Gaza, Great March of Return, IDF, Return March, sniper

Since March 30, 2018 Palestinian refugees in the Gaza Strip–including families, women, and children–have gathered along the Israeli border to highlight their dispossession in 1948 and protest the growing humanitarian catastrophe. From that time through December 16th, 2019, Israeli forces have killed 364 Gazans and injured over 35,000, including women, children, disabled individuals, medics, and journalists. Many have been shot in the back, nearly all were unarmed and posed no risk to the heavily armed Israeli soldiers. During the same period, Gazan resistance forces killed 9 Israelis.

Read the rest of this entry

Amira Hass: As if Israel Did Nothing Shameful Before the Advent of Smartphones

[email protected] April 23, 2018 Amira Hass, history, smartphone, umm al hiran

Amira Hass writes in Ha’aretz that Israeli soldiers who kill unarmed Palestinians didn’t pop up for the 1st time three weeks ago. Nor did the army’s excuses start only then. Gross violation of human rights (and Israeli denial) are as old as the state itself – even older. The actions excuses continue unabated in spite of smartphones and security cameras.

Read the rest of this entry

Another Day, Another Mossad Assassination

[email protected] April 23, 2018 academic boycott, assassination, BDS, fadi al batsh, Gaza, malaysia, mohammed al zoary, Mossad

Richard Silverstein reports on the assassination of Gazan engineer Fadi al Batsh in Malaysia and notes it resembles that of of Mohammed al Zoary last year. He asks why Israel kills academics and then protests academic boycott. His answer: An Israeli professor “would never see the equivalence between him or herself and a dead Palestinian professor.”

Read the rest of this entry

The Forced Displacement of Palestinians Never Truly Ended: A Revealing Family Story

[email protected] April 21, 2018 1929, 70th anniversary, Bernadotte, Bisharat, folke bernadotte, golda meir, hanna ibrahim bisharat, history, Nakba, villa harun al rashid

As Israel celebrates its 70th anniversary, a child and grandchild of exiled Palestinian refugees describes his remarkable family history – family members harbored Jewish neighbors in 1929, helped Count Folke Bernadotte, after Israel confiscated the family home, Golda Meir lived there… and discusses the continuing injustices endured as Palestinians resist Israel’s violent colonization.

Read the rest of this entry

Israel advocacy groups demand questionable changes to Virginia textbooks

[email protected] April 17, 2018 aliza craimer elias, five ponds press, history, houghton mifflin harcourt, institute for curriculum services, israel lobby, mcgraw hill, national geographic, prentice hall, textbook, virginia, whitewash

Pro-Israel curriculum provider Institute for Curriculum Services (ICS) is working with local Jewish groups and the Virginia Department of Education to whitewash Virginia textbooks by removing words like “occupied” and “settlements” and replacing them with more favorable terms like “captured” and “communities.”

Read the rest of this entry

Haidar Eid: Contextualizing the Great March of Return

[email protected] April 13, 2018 ahmed kathrada, avigdor lieberman, BDS, desmond tutu, holocaust, increemental genocide, matan vilnai, ronnie kasrils, shoah

In the past 10 years, Israel has launched three massive genocidal wars of aggression on occupied Gaza… this came after years of a deadly medieval Israeli siege of Gaza… this followed Israel’s ethnic cleansing of multitudes Palestinians… It is time for the world to stand up to the only remaining apartheid regime in the world

Read the rest of this entry

US Churches & agencies support Palestinian rights, Gaza demonstrators

[email protected] April 13, 2018 AFSC, Baptist, Christian, Episcopal, Lutheran, Maryknoll, Mennonite, Methodist, Pax Christi, Presbyterian, Return March, United Church of Christ

A Statement of US Churches and Christian Agencies on Gaza: “As US churches and Christian agencies, we support the Palestinian people as they courageously stand up for their rights.” Statement supports refugees rights, calls for end of blockade of Gaza, calls for U.S. to censure Israeli violence…

Read the rest of this entry

Ha’aretz: ‘I Was Just Following Orders.’ What Will You Tell Your Children?

[email protected] April 10, 2018 Amira Hass, apartheid, Haaretz, Return March

Amira Hass writes in Ha’aretz: ‘How did you destroy villages?’ one daughter will ask. ‘How did you agree to imprison two million people?’ another will whisper. The answers will only make their weeping louder.

Read the rest of this entry

The Gaza Prison Uprising Continues: “The Friday of Tires,” another sign of determination by Palestinians

[email protected] April 6, 2018 Gaza, IDF, Return March, tires

Crowds of young men went to the border area, setting tires on fire to create a smokescreen to obstruct the vision of Israeli snipers. They were met with gunfire and tear gas as they hurled stones at the heavily armed Israeli soldiers backed up by tanks and warplanes. Israel, which controls all of Gaza’s border crossings, airspace and waters, imposed a ban on the entry of tires, and Israeli forces brought huge fans and massive water cannons to extinguish the fires…

Read the rest of this entry