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The ‘War’ Is Not Over

by Yahav Zohar – October 29th, 2025 –  Are you still following the news from Gaza? Are you still protesting? Because despite what we’ve been told, nothing is over. Just last night (Tuesday 28 Oct.) the Israeli army killed 104 Gazans, 46 of them children. The Israeli military still directly occupies half of the Gaza […]

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Domicide: On Accountability and Destruction

by Yahav Zohar – October 11th, 2025 – A city was destroyed. In fact, several cities were. First there were bombs and missiles from the air, high rise apartment buildings collapsed and the people buried within. Finally it was armored bulldozers and unmanned ‘suicide’ APC’s collapsing what remained. Like the Roman army ploughing Jerusalem flat […]

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Graffiti Sprayed on the Western Wall

– Yahav Zohar – September 2nd, 2025 – Did you hear about the graffiti sprayed on the Western Wall? It made the news in a small wayalmost a month ago. Some outlets even showed the photo, Hebrew letters on the ancientstones יש שואה בעזה “There is a shoa (holocaust) in Gaza”. Earlier that evening, the […]

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Cash Dries Up In Gaza

– Hani Qarmoot, Gaza – August 23rd, 2025 –Israel has blocked the transfer of currency into Gaza; the result is catastrophic. – You try to buy a kilo of flour in Gaza. You open your wallet; what’s inside? A faded 10-shekel note, barely held together by a strip of tape. No one wants it – […]

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Violence Without Context – a War Update

– by Yahav Zohar – May 2021 Israel-Palestine is in the news again, there are bombs and rockets lighting up the sky, turning homes to rubble and dramatically toppling towers. Heads turn in our direction and people want to know what’s going on. “Israel is bombing us” say Gazans. “Hamas shot rockets first” say Israelis. […]

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Palestinians have every right to reject another Oslo

With the Bahrain workshop, the Trump administration is relying on the same old Oslo model of economy before politics. What needs to be done is to hold Israel accountable. – by Sam Bahour – American President Donald Trump speaks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and advisor Jared Kushner at the White House, May 22, […]

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Palestinian cities are ghost towns between settlements, on Google Maps

 The notorious, massive Qalandiya checkpoint lies in the center area surrounded by three roundabouts. Qalandiya is the scene of relentless ethnic control, murders by the IDF, violently suppressed protests, and a major cause of the impossibility of normal civilian life and movement. On GoogleMaps, the checkpoint does not exist. – by Tom Suàrez, of Mondoweiss […]

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The Killing Fields of Gaza

– by Fred Schlomka – – 20th May, 2018 – Gaza continues to be desperate. Your help is needed. Imagine a giant prison bounded by the sea on one side, and fences and walls on the other three sides. The original prison guards were thrown out in 1967, and the new prison guards evacuated themselves in […]

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Jaffa to Gaza – A Short Cycling Odyssey – Day 1

– by Fred Schlomka – Day 1 • 18th May, 2017Tel Aviv – Zikkim Dunes (Israel) 2.30 am – I slip out of bed and prepare to depart from our urban homestead on the beach. My wife Sunita mumbles something about it being a crazy hour to depart, and goes back to sleep. I am ready […]

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Jaffa to Gaza – A Short Cycling Odyssey – Day 2

– by Fred Schlomka – DAY 2 • 19th May, 2017Zikkim Dunes – Gaza Border area – Sderot – Tel Aviv (Israel)About 2am, after fitfully dozing off and on for a few hours, I finally have had enough of the nearby beach party. The Mizrachi pop music is blasting away with no end in sight. […]

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Gaza Context

by Yahav Zohar – The media tends to juxtapose Hamas’s rockets against Israel’s bombings so that it almost seemed in this war one should support one side or the other based on its ethics of warfare.  War was made to look like a game conducted and judged by some rules of fair play. There is […]

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Next Summer in Gaza

by Chema Arraiza –  There is something sacred and untouchable about kids and the summer. Summer is the time for endless evenings, for cycling, jumping on a river, a beach, a lake, for staying up late. Summer is pure life. It is freedom, the scenery of our best childhood memories. Swimming, laughing, discovering love… Life […]

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