Israeli leaders have barely hidden their jubilation at an opinion article in last Friday’s Washington Post by the South African jurist Richard Goldstone reconsidering the findings of his United Nations-appointed inquiry into Israel’s attack on Gaza in winter 2008-09. In reality, however, he offered far less consolation to Israel than its supporters claim. Read more about Goldstone reconsideration undermines justice for Gaza
Until now, there have been good reasons to believe Israel would hesitate to launch a new major military assault on Gaza. But EI’s Ali Abunimah sees warning signs Israel could be laying the ground for another big attack. Read more about Another war on Gaza?
Richard Goldstone’s shameful U-turn did not happen this week. It comes after more than a year and a half of a sustained campaign of intimidation and character assassination against the judge. Ilan Pappe comments for The Electronic Intifada. Read more about Goldstone's shameful U-turn
On 30 March 1976, while thousands of Palestinian citizens of Israel were protesting against the expropriation of their lands, Israeli security forces shot and killed six of them and injured many. Thirty-five years later, Mohammed Rabah Suliman writes about the significance of Land Day for Palestinians. Read more about In Palestine, curse anything but the land
Phantasms from the 1990s are upon us: no-fly zones; the rhetoric of humanitarian war in Washington, Europe and the UN; guarantees that no US ground troops will be deployed; an air war which alone cannot decisively affect earthbound events. Tarak Barkawi comments. Read more about The language of liberal war
Kiss front-man Gene Simmons, who was born Chaim Witz near Haifa, recently opened that mouth to call artists boycotting Israel “fools.” Alexander Billet comments for The Electronic Intifada. Read more about The foolish side of the cultural boycott line
The 15 March mass mobilizations in the West Bank and Gaza came and went. But did they achieve what they set out to do? Safa Joudeh comments for The Electronic Intifada. Read more about March 15 and the roots of our struggle
Radical change in Egypt should mean radical change in Palestine as well: a pro-Palestine Egypt should mean the end of the siege. But when will we see that? Haidar Eid comments for The Electronic Intifada on the future of Egyptian-Palestinian relationship. Read more about Palestine and the Egyptian revolution: a view from Gaza
