This is the Forward’s coverage of the Gaza Strip, a Palestinian territory on the Mediterranean sea bordering Israel. Israel withdrew from the strip in 2005, ceding direct control to the Palestinian Authority, but it maintains strict indirect control.
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The Schmooze The Best Part of Traveling
Earlier this week, Martin Fletcher wrote about stories he’s covered for NBC’s London bureau and about choosing a title for his book. His newest book, “Walking Israel: A Personal Search for the Soul of a Nation,” is now available. His blog posts are being featured this week on The Arty Semite courtesy of the Jewish…
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The Schmooze Rabbi Funnye’s Sukkot Plans
While President Barack Obama spent Labor Day weekend at Camp David, his wife Michelle’s cousin, Rabbi Capers Funnye, is heading out for a very different kind of camp experience over Sukkot. While Obama and his diplomatic team will work (thanklessly in some quarters) through a historically intractable conflict to spread a sukkah of peace over…
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The Schmooze Survey: One in Three Spaniards Is Anti-Semitic
Look at the bright side… Muslims here are hated even more than Jews! That’s the line Spanish government officials are using to mitigate the damage from a new survey suggesting one-third of Spaniards harbor anti-Semitic sentiments. According to AFP, The “Study on anti-Semitism in Spain” revealed 34.6 percent of Spaniards had an “unfavourable opinion” of…
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News When You Need Israel Advice, Who Ya Gonna Call?
Congressman Joe Sestak’s signature on what is now known as the Gaza-54 letter has been at the center of attacks launched against him by Republicans and right-wing groups as he campaigns now for the Senate in Pennsylvania. The letter, signed by 54 Democratic members of Congress, called for an easing of Israel’s blockade of the…
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News Did Joe Sestak Cave In?
Pundits on the right were quick to celebrate the first casualty of the war between the dovish J Street and the hawkish Emergency Committee for Israel, but it is not clear that Joe Sestak did indeed retract his support for J Street’s congressional letter calling for easing the Gaza blockade. Sestak has been the prime…
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The Schmooze Canada Halts Mail to Gaza
First it was building materials, now it’s the mail. In the latest international Gaza blockade spat, Israel’s national mail carrier, Israel Post, told the Canada Post last week it would not deliver Canadian mail to the Strip, citing circumstances “beyond their control.” It’s not known what caused the mail stoppage. Just days after the embargo…
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The Schmooze Gaza Kids Attempt To Break World Record for Bouncing Balls
In a rare piece of lighthearted, apolitical news from the Gaza Strip, AP reported that more than 7,000 Palestinian children there spent five minutes on Thursday simultaneously dribbling basketballs in an attempt to enter the Guinness Book of World Records. The children, among 250,000 in the Gaza Strip who attend United Nations summer camps, were…
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Opinion The Flotilla, the Israeli Moral Imagination and the Failure of U.S. Jewish Leadership
Haaretz reporter Anshel Pfeffer has a very important piece in the Friday paper that looks at the Gaza Flotilla incident and the yawning gap between Israeli and international perceptions of the affair — and then connects it to Peter Beinart’s “breathtaking” New York Review of Books essay, “The failure of the American Jewish establishment.” In…
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