Understanding Gaza

Understanding Gaza When a vast military machine is being unleashed on a captive population under siege, whose most militant members are lightly armed and try to make up in suicidal courage for what they lack in materiel, the image most likely to spring to mind is that...

Jonathan Cook

Bombing to make the Gaza prison even more secure for Israel Jonathan Cook, The Electronic Intifada, 7 January 2009 There are two persistent myths about the aim of Israel’s onslaught on Gaza: the first that it is an entirely defensive move, a way to end the...

Bush Plan

Bush Plan Eliminated Obstacle to Gaza Assault Analysis by Gareth Porter WASHINGTON, Jan 5 (IPS) – Until mid-2007, there was a serious political obstacle to a massive conventional war by Israel against Hamas in Gaza: the fact that Hamas had won free and fair...

Avi Shlaim

How Israel brought Gaza to the brink of humanitarian catastrophe Oxford professor of international relations Avi Shlaim served in the Israeli army and has never questioned the state’s legitimacy. But its merciless assault on Gaza has led him to a devastating...