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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Life Supporters of Disengagement Rethink Their Stance
It has been the big question Israeli politicians and analysts have been asking ever since the 2005 disengagement. If Israel could turn the clock back and rewrite the past, would it have left Gaza? According to a new poll, the public hopes not. Research by the public opinion company Maagar Mochot found that some 68%…
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Life ‘Seven Jewish Children’ — Provocative Playlet or Agitprop?
Caryl Churchill’s “Seven Jewish Children: A Play for Gaza” is inciting more controversy stateside since it jumped the pond. Last week, Washington’s Theater J, staged two free readings of the 10-minute playlet that the The Washington Post called “a beautifully crafted cheap shot” and “an effort to compress to black-and-white a question of conscience of…
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Life Valentine’s Day Exports From Gaza
They say that love conquers all. Well, it can apparently do what neither Palestinian violence nor international diplomacy have managed: lead to a lifting of Israel’s blockade of Gaza. It’s almost Valentine’s Day, and Dutch romantics are seemingly set on giving carnations to their sweethearts (despite the fact the rest of the world pines for…
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Life Human Rights Watch Head Surveys the Gaza Battlefield
Kenneth Roth, executive director of Human Rights Watch, paints a not very pretty picture of Israeli actions during the latest Gaza war. Writing in Forbes, he scores the IDF on the following points: Targeting: Part of the problem was the IDF’s expansive definition of a military target. It attacked a range of civilian facilities, from…
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Life J Street’s Disappearing Gaza Statement (UPDATED)
UPDATE: As of a little bit after noon, the J Street statement in question is back online. UPDATE II: Isaac Luria of J Street e-mails that the “text was down due to a technical error. It’s back up, as you’ve noted. Thanks for bringing this to our attention.” J Street, the dovish new Israel lobbying…
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Life ‘Joe the Plumber’ Puts Down the Plunger, Heads to Israel
“Joe the Plumber” won’t be unclogging any toilets, at least not while war is raging in Gaza. Samuel J. Wurzelbacher — the Ohio plumber and would-be country music star who became a fixture of John McCain’s presidential campaign — is heading to Israel for 10 days as a war reporter for the conservative Web site…
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Life Obama Breaks His Silence on Gaza, but Doesn’t Say Much
The Associated Press reports: President-elect Barack Obama broke his silence on the crisis Tuesday, saying that “the loss of civilian life in Gaza and in Israel is a source of deep concern for me.” He declined to go further, reiterating his stance that the U.S. has only one president at a time. Obama had been…
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Life Hamas Beards vs. Fatah Moustaches
The Jerusalem Post reports: Hamas has resumed its policy of shaving mustaches of political opponents to humiliate them, Fatah officials said Wednesday. Hamas resorted to this form of punishment in the past after arresting senior Fatah representatives in the Gaza Strip, the officials said. Hamas, for its part, accused the Palestinian Authority security forces of…
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