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The World Wakes Up

To say that Israel has wrought death and destruction on the Gazans is an oxymoron.   That has been known to those who have taken an interest and followed events in the Middle East - and,  in particular, Israel and the Palestinians.

All too sadly the media has been craven to following the Israel perspective on what has been happening over the years.   The Palestinians have barely figured so that not only has the world not really known or understood what has been happening but what suffering the Palestinians have been going through.   

The most recent events have shone light on the whole situation.    And the world doesn't like what it has seen.    The tide has been turned as this piece on Mondoweiss explains.   

‘NYT’ puts faces of 60+ slain Palestinian children on front page, at last

"The New York Times does an unprecedented thing for a paper that has long supported Israel: puts the faces of dozens of Palestinian children slaughtered by Israel in Gaza on its front page. “Never thought I’d see the day when Palestinian victims were pictured, named, & their stories told,” says James Zogby."

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This is welcome, but I’ve become more cynical: I used to think that U.S. pressure could bring Israel to heel, but I think at some point Israel will just tell the U.S. to shove it, they can buy and sell weapons with Bolsonaro or Putin. Reading Haim Bresheeth-Zabner’s “An Army Lie No Other – How The Israel Defense Forces Made A Nation” has made me realize the extent to which the army permeates life in… Read more »

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“More than 140 Rutgers Faculty Sign Statement of Solidarity with Palestinians”

https://csrr.rutgers.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/ru-faculty-solidarity-with-palestinians.pdf
 

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Well it seem they took their cue from Haaretz. That is one powerful front page.

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Gazan Artist Speaks About a Lifetime of Trauma and War“We live in constant fear of censorship. No artist should have that fear,” says 21-year-old artist Malak Matar. “In several previous interviews with the international press, Matar has been routinely asked: “What message do you have to the world?” Admittedly, that’s a question we intended to ask her as well, as voices of artists from Gaza are rarely amplified. But before we did, Matar stated that… Read more »

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