01.01.09
EI update
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ONGOING COVERAGE OF ISRAEL’S WAR ON GAZA:
http://electronicintifada.net/bytopic/687.shtml
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PALESTINE : OPINION/EDITORIAL:
NEW BIRTH PANGS FOR THE MIDDLE EAST
By Hasan Abu Nimah, The Electronic Intifada, 31 December 2008
No one can say with certainty what Israel’s new aggression
will unleash, but one can point to some likely outcomes.
The attack on Gaza will not destroy Hamas, and even if
Israel kills every person who ever supported Hamas, the
attack will not end resistance. On the contrary,
resistance will be strengthened throughout the region,
undermining the notion that resistance is outdated or
impossible and that the only remaining “strategic choice”
for the Arabs is negotiation from a position of weakness.
The Gaza attack will weaken and discredit even further the
so-called “moderates” who did their best to extinguish any
form of resistance and bet heavily on the failed peace
process and its sponsors. Hasan Abu Nimah comments.
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article10082.shtml
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PALESTINE : HUMAN RIGHTS:
“IF THERE IS AN ISRAELI INVASION HOSPITALS WILL COLLAPSE”
Report, The Electronic Intifada, 31 December 2008
GAZA CITY, occupied Gaza Strip (IRIN) – In Gaza’s main
hospital, the director’s office is under virtual siege,
according to an IRIN journalist in Gaza. Relatives of the
injured are desperate to get their kin transferred to
Egypt for emergency treatment. There is a fear here that
the already overstretched healthcare system will collapse
if Israel mounts a ground offensive into the tiny coastal
strip, home to 1.5 million Palestinians.
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article10083.shtml
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PALESTINE : DEVELOPMENT:
“PEACE PROCESS” BLOWN TO BITS
By Adam Morrow and Khaled Moussa al-Omrani, The Electronic Intifada, 31 December 2008
CAIRO (IPS) – Formally, the Israeli-Palestinian “peace
process” appears set to continue, in line with the last
United Nations Security Council (UNSC) resolution. But the
chances of finding a resolution are virtually nil in light
of Israel’s new campaign against the Gaza Strip. “Even
before Israel’s latest bombardment of Gaza, the so-called
peace process was dead,” Magdi Hussein, secretary-general
of Egypt’s Islamist-leaning Labor Party (officially frozen
since 2000), told IPS. On Saturday, 27 December, Israel
began a series of punishing air strikes throughout the
Israeli-occupied Gaza Strip, whose interior is controlled
by Hamas.
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article10081.shtml
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PALESTINE : OPINION/EDITORIAL:
WHERE PEACE IS A PROBLEM
By Haim Bresheeth, The Electronic Intifada, 31 December 2008
As the death toll in Gaza rises by the hour, and the few
civic buildings still left are collapsing under the
combined firepower of the Israeli air force, with its
up-to-the-minute bombers and destructive armaments, we are
again facing an incredible political phenomenon — the
foretold disaster which surprises all political leaders as
if they, unlike the rest of us, never see a newspaper or
watch the television news channels. Haim Bresheeth
comments for The Electronic Intifada.
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article10080.shtml
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PALESTINE : HUMAN RIGHTS:
RIGHTS ORGS: UN BODY MUST ACT TO END GAZA WAR CRIMES
Intervention, various undersigned, 30 December 2008
Representing the Palestinian human rights community, we
write to you with an urgent request for intervention by
the UN Human Rights Council to put an end to the war
crimes and crimes against humanity being committed in the
Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) as a result of the
Israeli occupying forces’ ongoing attacks on the Gaza
Strip.
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article10079.shtml
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PALESTINE : DIARIES: LIVE FROM PALESTINE:
BLOODIED IN GAZA AS THE WORLD SILENTLY WATCHES
By Laila El-Haddad, Live from Palestine, 30 December 2008
“There is a complete blackout in Gaza now. The streets are
as still as death.” I am speaking to my father, Moussa
el-Haddad, a retired physician who lives in Gaza City, on
Skype, from Durham, North Carolina in the United States,
where I have been since mid 2006 — the month Gaza’s
borders were hermetically sealed by Israel, and the
blockade of the occupied territory further enforced. Laila
El-Haddad writes from the US.
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article10077.shtml
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PALESTINE : DIARIES: LIVE FROM PALESTINE:
DESERTED STREETS AND FEAR AS ISRAEL DEMOLISHES GAZA
By Rami Almeghari, Live from Palestine, 30 December 2008
I am in al-Maghazi refugee camp, in the central Gaza
Strip. This afternoon Israeli drones targeted a house in
al-Maghazi with three missiles. Fortunately there were no
casualties. But unfortunately there have been many
casualties elsewhere in Gaza where they have targeted
houses and mosques. I went out of the house to deal with
some urgent matters today. But movement is really risky
right now. The Electronic Intifada correspondent Rami
Almeghari reports from the besieged Gaza Strip.
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article10076.shtml
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