What's New on EI?
This page offers an extended What's New? section that lists the latest additons to EI in reverse chronological order, with descriptive summaries and thumbnail images.
Palestine :
Development:
UN diplomats frustrated at Gaza impasse
Haider Rizvi, The Electronic Intifada, 6 January 2009
UNITED NATIONS (IPS) - Disappointed with the Security Council's inaction regarding the worsening situation in Gaza, diplomats from numerous nations of the global South are close to taking the case of Israeli aggression to the United Nations General Assembly. "It seems like they will wait for another day or two about what happens at the Security Council. If the Council does not take any action, they will be going to the General Assembly soon," a diplomatic source told IPS on condition of anonymity.
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Palestine :
Israel Lobby Watch:
Israel's fabricated rocket crisis
Jim Holstun and Joanna Tinker, The Electronic Intifada, 6 January 2009
We have heard, and we will continue to hear, a droning litany of "Qassams! Qassams! Qassams!" The repetition will be difficult to resist, but for all of us who remember the reiterated US lies about Iraq of 2002-2003, whether with pride for our skepticism or shame for our credulity, a good first step might be for us to think "WMDs!" every time they say "Qassams!" Like the US Coalition of the Willing, Israel's Operation Cast Lead has not let the absence of actual provocation get in the way of a good bloodbath. Jim Holstun and Joanna Tinker analyze for The Electronic Intifada. [MORE]
Palestine :
Coverage Trends:
The BBC: Eyeless in Gaza
Muhammad Idrees Ahmad, The Electronic Intifada, 6 January 2009
To establish evidence of the BBC's journalistic malpractice one often has to do no more than pick a random sample of news related to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict currently on its website. In a time of conflict BBC's coverage invariably tends to the Israeli perspective, and nowhere is this reflected more than in the semantics and framing of its reportage. Muhammad Idrees Ahmad analyzes for The Electronic Intifada. [MORE]
Palestine :
Activism News:
Egypt government feels its people's ire
Per Bjoerklund, The Electronic Intifada, 5 January 2009
Thousands of Egyptians have taken to the streets to protest the continuing Israeli aggression against Gaza and the participation of the Egyptian regime in the isolation of its population. Last Wednesday, the state responded with a major crackdown in which tens of protestors and journalists were assaulted and arrested. Per Bjoerklund reports from Cairo. [MORE]
Palestine :
Human Rights:
Eighty-nine children and 30 women amongst Gaza's confirmed dead
Press release, Al Mezan, 5 January 2009
On the 10th day of its aggression on the Gaza Strip, the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) has seriously escalated its military operations, targeting mostly civilian targets, particularly homes. Air strikes and artillery shells hit tens of homes. IOF also targeted medical facilities and ambulances. A Civil Defense team was hit as it tried to fight a fire following the bombardment of a clinic. [MORE]
Palestine :
Opinion/Editorial:
Israel's blonde bombshells and real bombs in Gaza
Yosefa Loshitzky, The Electronic Intifada, 5 January 2009
Israel's oiled propaganda-machine was further lubricated by its self-acknowledged decision to select women as their masbirim (misinformation spokespersons) so as "to project a feminine and softer image." To add some cool glamour to Israel's hot lies, Tzipi Livni, the state's foreign minister and a natural blonde, announced, in response to calls for truce: "There is no humanitarian crisis in the [Gaza] Strip, and therefore there is no need for a humanitarian truce." Yosefa Loshitzky comments for The Electronic Intifada. [MORE]
Palestine :
Diaries: Live from Palestine:
Resisting to protect our own
Safa Joudeh, Live from Palestine, 5 January 2009
All Palestinian factions have united and are out facing the enemy, using all of their military capabilities that they collectively have. Although these capabilities are incomparable to the military strength exerted by Israel, yet it has made us more certain than ever that Palestinians will fight to the very end to protect their own. Safa Joudeh writes from the Gaza Strip. [MORE]
Palestine :
Human Rights:
Water, sewage system "collapsing" in Gaza, says official
Report, The Electronic Intifada, 5 January 2009
GENEVA (IRIN) - The UN has warned that power networks were down in large parts of the Gaza Strip on 4 January, with hospitals relying on generators. Without power for pumps, 70 percent of Gazans are estimated to be without tap water. Israel has been blocking fuel supplies, and stocks are dwindling, the latest (4 January) report by the UN's humanitarian coordinator in the occupied Palestinian territories said. [MORE]
Palestine :
Diaries: Live from Palestine:
Scared but steadfast in Gaza
Rami Almeghari, Live from Palestine, 4 January 2009
My family is from Karatiya village a few kilometers away from the Gaza Strip in what is now called Israel. Karatiya is one of the 450 towns in historical Palestine that were cleansed by Zionist militias in 1948, displacing my family along with hundreds of thousands of other Palestinians. I now live in Maghazi refugee camp in the Gaza Strip, which is currently being bombarded by Israel from tanks along the border, American-manufactured F-16s in the sky, and from the sea. The Electronic Intifada correspondent Rami Almeghari reports from the besieged Gaza Strip. [MORE]
Palestine :
Diaries: Live from Palestine:
Trapped, traumatized and terrorized
Laila El-Haddad, Live from Palestine, 4 January 2009
My father and I made simultaneous back to back appearances on domestic CNN and CNN International last night. My father spoke calmly, eloquently, in the pitch dark of besieged Gaza, with only the the fire of Israeli bombs illuminating his world. "They are destroying everything that is beautiful and living," he told the anchor. His hands were trembling, he confessed, as my mother and he lay on the floor of their home, where they moved their mattress far away from the windows. Laila El-Haddad writes from the US. [MORE]
Palestine :
BNN:
Israel collaborator recruiter punked
Transcript, The Electronic Intifada, 4 January 2009
In addition to bombs and missiles that have killed an ever increasing number of Palestinian civilians, Israel has dropped millions of flyers on the occupied, besieged Gaza Strip. The Electronic Intifada decided to call the number provided on one such flyer. What follows is a translation of the Arabic conversation between an EI editor and an Israeli officer who identifed himself using the Arabic name "Abu Ibrahim." [MORE]
Palestine :
Human Rights:
Testimony: "They found her body in the kitchen"
Testimony, B'Tselem, 4 January 2009
I turned on the generator to turn on the light. Then we heard the sound of planes in the sky. I heard a buzz and within a few seconds, I found myself under ruins. Everything collapsed so quickly, like in an earthquake. The smoke was thick. I couldn't see any of my family, who had been sitting with me a few moments earlier. Abdallah Kashku testifies to the Israeli human rights organization B'Tselem on the Israeli bomb strike that killed his daughter and sister-in-law. [MORE]
Palestine :
Human Rights:
Testimony: Five girls in one family killed by Israeli bombing
Testimony, B'Tselem, 4 January 2009
On Monday [29 December], around 11:50pm, I woke up and heard my husband calling to me: "Samira, Samira, they shelled the mosque, get up and see, and recite the Shahada [Prayer of the dying]." It was dark, and I couldn't see anything. I recited the Shahada. I felt something heavy choking me and pressing on my body. Samira Balousha testifies to the Israeli human rights organization B'Tselem about the deaths of her five daughters. [MORE]
Palestine :
Opinion/Editorial:
The Gaza Ghetto Uprising
Joseph Massad, The Electronic Intifada, 4 January 2009
The crushing of the Gaza Ghetto Uprising and the slaughter of its defenseless population will be relatively an easy task for the giant Israeli military machine and Israel's sadistic political leadership. It is dealing with the aftermath of a strengthened Palestinian determination to continue to resist Israel that will prove much more difficult for Israel and its Arab allies to deal with. While the thousands of dead and injured Palestinians are the main victims of this latest Israeli terrorist war, the major political loser in all this will be Abbas and his clique of collaborators. Joseph Massad comments for The Electronic Intifada. [MORE]
Palestine :
Activism News:
US academic group decries the targeting of schools in Gaza
Statement, California Scholars for Academic Freedom, 4 January 2009
California Scholars for Academic Freedom, a group of 100 scholars at 20 California institutions of higher learning, condemns in the strongest possible terms the Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip that have targeted the Islamic University and other educational sites. While we decry Israeli war crimes and violations of human rights, and condemn the massive Israeli bombardment of Gaza which has caused hundreds of deaths, as educators in California institutions of higher learning, we are especially appalled at the destruction of educational institutions and student casualties. [MORE]
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