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REPORTS & COMMENTARY From time to time, the Palestine Center distributes articles it believes will enhance understanding of the Palestinian political reality. The following recently published articles are worth reading.
Lessons of the conflict in Gaza
by Avi Shlaim (AJE) "Israel claims that its offensive on Gaza is a war on terror; in fact, it is an act of state terrorism."
Israel mows the lawn
by Mouin Rabbani (LRB) "After pursuing a policy of enforced integration between 1967 and the late 1980s, Israeli policy shifted towards separation during the 1987-93 uprising, and then fragmentation during the Oslo years."
Gaza’s children: ’Israel is creating a new generation of enemies’
by Harriet Sherwood (Guardian) "Najia Warshagha, age nine, is a veteran of three conflicts in Gaza. She cannot sleep properly and is always terrified."
Out of the carnage of Gaza a new spirit: we are all Palestinians
by Karma Nabulsi (Guardian) "The world has witnessed the daily brutality of Israel’s collective punishment and our cause is now stronger."
Negotiations continue in Cairo as a new 72-hour ceasefire holds in Gaza
(PM)
"A second round of negotiations between Palestinian and Israeli delegations started this morning in Cairo after a three-day ceasefire came into effect Monday midnight local time."
Israeli forces shoot, kill 12-year-old Palestinian boy near Hebron
(Maan)
"A 12-year old Palestinian boy was shot dead by Israeli soldiers while playing in front of his home in al-Fawwar refugee camp south of Hebron in the southern West Bank early Sunday, medics told Maan."
Gaza man Mohammad Al Qassas on quest for dignity by
Layelle Saad (GN)
"Mohammad hopes to secure a decent future despite a past filled with hardship."
Human Rights Watch Letter to U.S. State Secretary
by Sarah Leah Whitson (HRW) "Suspend Providing Israel with Weapons Documented to Have Been Used to Commission War Crimes, Help UN Fact-Finding Mission into Gaza."
Ending the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Is No Longer a Vital American
Interest
by John Judis (New Republic) "Since the breakdown of negotiations between the Israelis and Palestinians at the end of March, the Obama administration has become openly critical of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government and more inclined to mediate between the parties rather than siding with one party against another."
Serving Israel’s aim of lowering civilian deaths, ’New York Times’ Gaza
tally says 15- to 17-year-old’s aren’t children by
Patrick Connors (Mondoweiss)
"On August 5, The New York Times published a highly problematic article ’Civilian or Not? New Fight in Tallying the Dead from Gaza Conflict’, that presented information supporting dubious Israeli government claims that 900 Palestinians killed by Israel in Gaza, or around half of all Palestinian killed in Gaza in Israel’s current offensive, were ’terrorists.’"
Academic heavyweights slam Univ. of Illinois firing of Steven Salaita
for Palestine views by Ali Abunimah (EI)
"There has been a strong and unified response from prominent academics, as well as academic and civil rights organizations, condemning the decision by University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Chancellor Phyllis Wise to summarily terminate the appointment of Professor Steven Salaita."
Shoppers Use App To Boycott Israel In Grocery Store Aisles
by Clare O’Connor (Forbes)
"Today, more than a year since the app first gained ground, Buycott’s fastest-growing campaigns are those allowing shoppers to avoid products deemed to support Israel."
The views expressed in these articles are these of the authors
and do not necessarily reflect those of The Jerusalem Fund.
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501(c)(3) non-profit organization based in Washington, DC that does
educational and humanitarian work on behalf of Palestinians, particularly
those living in the Occupied Territory and surrounding refugee camps.
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communicating reliable and timely information about the Palestinian political
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