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Bowed
Heads and Bantustans
Israel's Vision of the Palestinian Future
by Neve Gordon
Dissident Voice, July 31, 2002
JERUSALEM: A few hours after the F-16 jet dropped a 1-ton bomb on
a crowded residential area in Gaza, killing 17 people -- 11 of them
children -- and wounding over 140 more, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon
exclaimed that the attack had been one of Israel's "biggest successes."
Israeli spin-doctors immediately understood that the massacre would
generate bad PR and changed the official line, using apologetic
adjectives like miscalculation, mistake, error, and oversight to
describe the deadly assault. Noble Peace Prize laureate Shimon Peres
took it upon himself to lead the remorseful choir, hoping to suppress
world censure.
Q&A
WITH ZAIN VERJEE - Transcript
CNN, aired July 29, 2002 - 12:30:00 ET
ZAIN VERJEE, CNN ANCHOR, hosts Yoni Ben Menachem, a political correspondent
with Israel radio Arabic network, and Jawad Anani, a media consultant
and former media information and foreign minister of the UAE.
Q&A. Middle East media wars. Israel is now beaming its own Arabic
language channel to the Arab world while some Arab countries are
broadcasting Hebrew language broadcasts into Israel. Both sides
say they want to present their view of this conflict.
Just how successful are they, and just how much of this conflict
is being fought out via the media?
Heavy
Words or Heavy Actions: Stop U.S. Military Aid to Israel
by Frida Berrigan
Common Dreams, July 30, 2002
The Bush administration has sharply criticized Israel's latest attack
on a densely populated neighborhood in the Gaza Strip, calling it
a "heavy handed action that will not contribute to the peace." In
a mission termed by one Israeli general as a "precision attack,"
an Israeli F-16 fighter plane dropped a 1,000-lb bomb in an attempt
to assassinate a single man, Hamas leader Sheik Salah Shehadeh,
who was responsible for a series of suicide attacks in Israel. The
Israeli attack, initially hailed as "one of our major successes"
by President Ariel Sharon, killed the Hamas leader. But fourteen
other people, including nine children, the youngest of whom, Dina
Mattar, was two months old, were also killed. Shifa Hospital in
Gaza reported that 140 people were injured, 7 seriously. The bomb
destroyed five buildings, reducing an area the size of half a city
block to rubble.
Unity?
It's time to split
By Gideon Samet
Ha'aretz, July 31, 2002
Hold them back, the Labor Party ministers, because they are so
mad at the Sharon government. That's why they were going to vote
for the budget with exactly the show of hands that would guarantee
nothing would fall, not the budget nor the unity government. That
campaignus interruptus proves just how pathetic their occasionally
opinionated poses can be. In that sense, they looked just like
that resignation-sprinter David Levy. Like him, they didn't know
how to present an alternative budget. And is it only the budget
that bothers them? What about the political rejectionism? The
suffocation of any gasping effort for a cease-fire? And Sharon's
daily sarcasm about them?
Nothing
Is A Good Weapon
By Charley Reese
Middle East News Online, July 29, 2002
It seems to me that the terrorists with whom America is "at
war" are doing exactly the right thing — nothing. In the
meantime, the U.S. government seems to be digging itself into
a deeper and deeper hole. There are raucous debates over anti-terrorism
measures; any concern for budget discipline has gone out the
window; government power is being expanded on a willy-nilly
basis; civil liberties are being put in jeopardy; the American
economy, particularly the aviation industry, is being strained;
and pressing problems such as the environment, economic infrastructure
and a sensible trade policy are all shoved to the back burner.
The
Thin Line Between Murder and Routine
July 31 2002
Palestine Chronicle, By Ramzy Baroud
The recent Israeli war crime in Gaza, which now occupies a special
day of mourning in the Palestinian calendar of tragedies as
the “Gaza Massacre”, sparked condemnations and provoked
questions. Most of these condemnations from around the world
were strong and sharp, save the United States, Israel and maybe
Micronesia. But other condemnations are left open for interpretation,
like in the case of the United States.
Remembering
Dina
Palestine Chronicle, July 30 2002
By James J. Zogby
The night Dina was murdered I was on my way back to my office
following a meeting with a congressman when CNN called and informed
me of the attack. My taxi changed course and minutes later I was
on TV both watching live footage from Gaza and commenting on the
horror that was unfolding. The picture on the cover of the New
York Times was too powerful to ever forget. It showed the grieving
father of two-month-old Dina Matar carrying her tiny broken body.
She was wrapped in a Palestinian flag and she was being taken
to her grave.
Welcome
to the Erez Crossing: Glancing back at Gaza
NileMedia, July 28, 2002
By Jennifer Loewenstein
The sign on the way out of Gaza really says this. Yes. Greetings.
Welcome to a half a mile of concrete barriers and barbed wire.
Welcome to electrical wires and fortified soldiers' bunkers.
Take no notice of the machine guns pointed at your head. Follow
the arrows and obey the signs. Put your hands up, leave your
bags behind you, walk slowly, show us your passport, tell us
what the hell you think you're doing in this human garbage dump.
No, you can't be trusted. You're living in Gaza.
Step
Into The Past
Palestine Chronicle, July
31 2002
By Eddie Taylor for Palestine Chronicle
Former news journalist Masha Hamilton’s debut novel,
Staircase of a Thousand Steps, explores life in a Palestinian
village in the mid-1960s. Eddie Taylor asks her what led her
back to the desert.
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