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O.I.L. Media Roundup (19 November)
![[Image of Mosque destroyed by Israeli bombing in Operation Cast Lead. Image by ISM Palestine. From Wikimedia Commons.]](/content_images/3/sm_800px-Cast_Lead_Mosque.jpg "[Image of Mosque destroyed by Israeli bombing in Operation Cast Lead. Image by ISM Palestine. From Wikimedia Commons.]")
[This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on Occupation, Intervention, and Law and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the O.I.L. Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each biweekly roundup to OIL@jadaliyya.com by Monday night of every other week] News "Israel Pounds Gaza Strip from Air and Sea," Al-Jazeera English Al-Jazeera English provides an overview of the first five days of Israel's assault on the Gaza Strip, Hamas' response, the political responses on both sides, and Egypt's involvement in the conflict. "Blogger is Dead ...
Keep Reading »Mowing the Lawn in Gaza
![[The father and one of only two survivors of the al-Dallo family holding the body of his youngest child during his family's funeral. Ten members of the al-Dallo family (five of them children) were killed during an Israeli air strike on a three-story building in Gaza City on 18 November 2012. Photo by Eman Mohammed.]](/content_images/3/sm__MG_2843.jpg "[The father and one of only two survivors of the al-Dallo family holding the body of his youngest child during his family's funeral. Ten members of the al-Dallo family (five of them children) were killed during an Israeli air strike on a three-story building in Gaza City on 18 November 2012. Photo by Eman Mohammed.]")
The mainstream media’s coverage of all things Middle Eastern is almost always toxic. In times of war, this toxicity exceeds tolerable levels. I’m not referring to the war in Afghanistan, recently brought under greater attention courtesy of General Petraeus’s body and those with access to it, and not the piling corpses of civilians being slaughtered there. No. I meant Gaza, where Israeli bombs continue to rain death and destruction from air and sea killing scores of civilians. There are fears of an imminent ground invasion. Take, for example, Richard Engel, the award-winning NBC News Chief Foreign Correspondent. In his report aired 16 November, he assured viewers that ...
Keep Reading »Netanyahu's First War
![[A Palestinian man picks up a binder from the debris after an Israeli air strike on the building of Hamas' Ministry of Interior in Gaza City, 16 November 2012. Image by Hatem Moussa/AP Photo.]](/content_images/3/sm_schmelzdebrisap.JPG "[A Palestinian man picks up a binder from the debris after an Israeli air strike on the building of Hamas' Ministry of Interior in Gaza City, 16 November 2012. Image by Hatem Moussa/AP Photo.]")
Despite his deserved reputation as an extremist and rejectionist of the first order, Israel’s Binyamin Netanyahu has unlike most of his predecessors never initiated a war. He appears not to have planned one this time either. The 1996 Tunnel Intifada, named after several days of clashes that followed Israel’s festive opening of a tunnel in the heart of occupied East Jerusalem, may well have been Bibi’s template for the current assault on the Gaza Strip. It after all transpired during his previous term in office and consists of three simple steps: 1. Launch outrageous provocation guaranteed to elicit armed response. 2. Use overwhelming firepower to kill Arabs and ...
Keep Reading »Israeli Aggression in the Gaza Strip: In Pictures
[If the pictures of the slide show are not visible, please click here.] On 14 November Israel assassinated Hamas military leader Ahmad al-Ja'bari, simultaneously blowing up a truce mediated by Egyptian intelligence officials and accepted by Ja'bari, other Palestinian parties and - according to the Egyptians - Israel as well. In this and a further series of air raids eight more were killed, at least two of them children. Claiming these initial attacks had destroyed the long-range missile capability in the Gaza Strip, Israel's strategy of a short, sharp assault that would remind the Palestinians who makes the rules proved illusory. As Israeli planes pounded the ...
Keep Reading »Timeline: Israel's Latest Escalation in Gaza
![[Skyline of Gaza burns during Operation Cast Lead. Image by Al-Jazeera English. From Wikimedia Commons.]](/content_images/3/sm_Gaza_Burns_-_Flickr_-_Al_Jazeera_English.jpg "[Skyline of Gaza burns during Operation Cast Lead. Image by Al-Jazeera English. From Wikimedia Commons.]")
Earlier today it was reported that Israel assassinated the leader of Hamas’ military wing, Ahmed Jabari, breaking a tentative truce with Palestinian fighters that had been in place since Monday. The truce followed an escalation in violence that began last Thursday in which six Palestinian civilians were killed, including three children, and more than fifty others injured. The IMEU offers the following timeline of the recent violence and a fact sheet on previous Israeli ceasefire violations. I. TIMELINE: ISRAEL’S LATEST ESCALATION IN GAZA THURSDAY, 8 NOVEMBER Following a two-week lull in violence, Israeli soldiers invade Gaza. In the resulting exchange of gunfire ...
Keep Reading »Counting Calories and Making Lemonade in Gaza
![[Rafah Tunnel, 2009. Image by Zoriah]](/content_images/3/sm_3179626368_1bc948c87f_z.jpg "[Rafah Tunnel, 2009. Image by Zoriah]")
The calorie is a crucial measurement in our self-imposed scrutiny of the body. As a recently released Israeli government document shows, it is also an instrument of rule. After a two-year legal battle, the Israeli human rights organization Gisha has secured the release of “Food Consumption in the Gaza Strip — Red Lines.” Measurement obsession In September 2007, after Hamas took control of Gaza, the Israeli cabinet restricted the passage of goods, fuel, and people to and from the strip. Prepared in January 2008, “Red Lines” prescribes the “humanitarian minimum” of this policy. In implementing the siege on Gaza, Israeli officials sought to allow “for subsistence ...
Keep Reading »The UN at ASIL: R2P and the Arab Uprisings
![[Image of a UN Peacekeeping Forces Helmet. Image by Daniel Košinár. From Wikimedia Commons.]](/content_images/3/sm_bluehelmetschmelz.jpg "[Image of a UN Peacekeeping Forces Helmet. Image by Daniel Košinár. From Wikimedia Commons.]")
The Under-Secretary for Legal Affairs and United Nations Legal Counsel, Patricia O Brien, recently addressed the American Society of International Law Midyear Meeting at the University of Georgia School of Law. In her representative capacity, O’Brien dedicated her luncheon remarks to a discussion about the still-developing concept of responsibility to protect. (She contributed the full remarks as an IntLawGrrls post.) Also known by its shorthand abbreviation, R2P, the doctrine of responsibility to protect suggests that sovereignty is not a privilege that shields states from accountability; rather, in addition to international privileges, sovereignty entails ...
Keep Reading »O.I.L. Media Roundup (22 October)
![[Fire burns in the U.S. consulate in Benghazi after the attack there on September 11, 2012. Image by Voice of America. From Wikimedia Commons.]](/content_images/3/sm_2012_Benghazi_consulate_attack.png "[Fire burns in the U.S. consulate in Benghazi after the attack there on September 11, 2012. Image by Voice of America. From Wikimedia Commons.]")
[This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on Occupation, Intervention, and Law and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the O.I.L. Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each biweekly roundup to OIL@jadaliyya.com by Monday night of every other week] News "CIA Seeks to Expand Drone Fleet, Officials Say," Greg Miller CIA director David Petraeus has proposed an expansion of the agency's armed drone program, arguing that it would allow the agency to sustain its current targeted killing programs in Pakistan and Yemen and respond to "emerging ...
Keep Reading »The Struggle for Security in Eastern Libya
![[Clashes in Al-Badya, Libya, in February 2011. Image by ليبي_صح via Wikimedia Commons.]](/content_images/3/sm_albadyalibyaweb.jpg "[Clashes in Al-Badya, Libya, in February 2011. Image by ليبي_صح via Wikimedia Commons.]")
[The following report was issued by the Carnegie Endowment in September 2012.] The Struggle for Security in Eastern Libya Summary Despite successful parliamentary elections in early July, localized clashes over identity, power, and resources persist in Libya, straining the capacity of the weak government, deterring foreign investment, and possibly stunting the emergence of democratic institutions. The most pressing of these conflicts — growing insecurity in Libya’s eastern region of Barqa, where Benghazi is located — is fueled by longstanding neglect, Salafi militancy, and fighting between ethnic Tabu and Arab tribes. Lacking an ...
Keep Reading »NYC Event: Three Jadaliyya Co-Editors on The Uprising in Syria at The Brecht Forum (22 October 2012)
![[Syrian opposition flags painted on the walls of a government school in Homs. Image by FreedomHouse via Flickr]](/content_images/3/sm_syriauprisingweb.jpg "[Syrian opposition flags painted on the walls of a government school in Homs. Image by FreedomHouse via Flickr]")
The Uprising in Syria Time/Date: 7:30 PM, 22 October 2012 Location: The Brecht Forum Address: 451 West Street (that's the West Side Highway) between Bank & Bethune Streets The uprising against the regime of Bashar al-Asad in Syria, which began in March 2011, has polarized the U.S. left. Some denounce the rebels, whom they view as fighting to overthrow a regional bulwark against Western imperialism; others support the rebels in their struggle against a ruthless dictatorship, in line with the spirit of the Arab Spring. Some in the latter camp support U.S. or NATO intervention on the rebels' behalf, while others do not. In the context of this polarization, Bassam ...
Keep Reading »O.I.L. Media Roundup (8 October)
![[Supreme Court Building of the United States, where arguments for Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Shell took place last week. Image from Wikimedia Commons.]](/content_images/3/sm_800px-Supreme_Court_06.jpg "[Supreme Court Building of the United States, where arguments for Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Shell took place last week. Image from Wikimedia Commons.]")
[This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on Occupation, Intervention, and Law and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the O.I.L. Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each biweekly roundup to OIL@jadaliyya.com by Monday night of every other week] News "White House Widening Covert War in North Africa", Kimberly Dozier The Associated Press reports on small teams of American special operations forces that have arrived at US embassies in North Africa in the months prior to the months before the attacks at Benghazi. Dozier reports on ...
Keep Reading »Israel's Hypocrisy on a Nuclear Middle East
![[Graffiti image of Benjamin Netanyahu. Image by Abode of Chaos/Flickr.]](/content_images/3/sm_netanyahugraffitischmelz.jpg "[Graffiti image of Benjamin Netanyahu. Image by Abode of Chaos/Flickr.]")
When world leaders packed their bags and headed home last week, there was one lingering memory of the General Assembly’s high-level debate: Benjamin Netanyahu’s dramatic presentation of a cartoonish nuclear red line, which hit the front pages of most mainstream newspapers in the United States. The Israeli prime minister warned Iran against crossing that red line even though the Jewish state itself had crossed it when it went nuclear many moons ago. As Mouin Rabbani, contributing editor to the Middle East Report, told IPS, “The real absurdity of Netanyahu lecturing the world about nuclear weapons was precisely that – an Israeli leader lecturing the world about the ...
Keep Reading »Colonial Experiments in Gaza
Once again Israel, still the occupying power of Gaza, has unleashed its war machinery on occupied Palestinians. Since the start of the second intifada in 2000, this ritual has become compulsive and repetitive. Israel initiated its new round of bloody violence by targeting Palestinian resistance fighters who, Minister of Transportation Yisrael Katz explained, Israel will “hunt like beasts.” In this new round of war, shelling and bombardment--or "hunting," to use Katz’s colonial vocabulary-- have ...
Keep Reading »Dissecting IDF Propaganda: The Numbers Behind the Rocket Attacks
In this brief study, I examine the many numbers cited by the Israeli military relating to Gaza rocket attacks into Israel. To begin, Israeli spokespeople frequently remind the world that a million Israeli citizens are within range of Gaza rockets, twelve thousand of which have been fired into Israel in the last twelve years, inflicting thousands of injuries and several dead. However, we are rarely told exactly how many people have been killed by these rocket attacks. Counting the dead Below is a ...
Keep Reading »خرائط الصبّار
١ جرّافات التاريخ السائد الذي يصنعه الرجل الأبيض منذ قرون تزمجر وتندفع، مرة أخرى، إلى ”الأمام“. حوافر التكنولوجيا والتقدّم تحمل آخر ما ابتكره من أدوات القتل والمحق لاقتلاع الشعوب، الأكثر سمرة في الغالب، التي يعرقل وجودها أساطيره العنصرية ويذكّر بتاريخ جرائمه ويشوّش خرائطه. لكن هناك دائماً من يقاوم ومن يرفض أن يخرج من التاريخ بصمت ليتحول إلى عيّنة في متحف أو إلى موضوع مثير لبحث أنثروبولوجي أو ذكرى قد تثير شيئاً من الخجل أو العار بعد عقود، هذا إن لم يغطّه تراب النسيان كليّاً. لكن، هناك من يبقى ويرفض أن ...
Keep Reading »Bodies for Ballots
They say when all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. But, when you are a politician and all you have is a hammer, you must convince voters every problem looks like a nail. This is the only thinking that can explain Israel’s behavior in escalating bombardment of Gaza. The Israeli spin machines are out in full force in the hopes of convincing Israelis and the rest of the world that the attacks on Gaza are in self-defense. But anyone following the situation closely and over time will ...
Keep Reading »غزة "القلعة الأخيرة" والأولى
أتذكر في خضم الأحداث الثورية في مصر، كنت دائماً أميل لفكرة التصعيد على حساب التسليح التي راجت بين شباب الثورة المصرية رداً على توحش العسكر والداخلية وتحديداً في فترات محمد محمود وأحداث مجلس الوزراء والعباسية. والفارق بين التصعيد والتسليح فارق كبير من حيث مخزون الردع/التدمير في المواجهات، فالتصعيد لا يشترط أن يكون بالسلاح المركب "المعقد"، قد يكون التصعيد هو وسيلة لتعطيل مخزون الردع/التدمير الخاص بسلاح الطرف الآخر كالبندقية وقنابل الغاز مثلاً مما يفقده أفضليتها الميدانية، مثال ذلك في الثورة كان ...
Keep Reading »O.I.L. Media Roundup (5 November)
[This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on Occupation, Intervention, and Law and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the O.I.L. Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each biweekly roundup to OIL@jadaliyya.com by Monday night of every other week] News "Palestinian Cars Vandalized in Apparent Hate Attack", Agence France-Presse Six Palestinian vehicles in an East ...
Keep Reading »وردة على قبر سركون بولص
“وهكذا الشاعر، هو المطوَّق بصيحاتِ القبيلة حين يجولُ بينَ الخرائب ويرثي أبناء مدينته.” ١ كثيراً ما نقرأ عن عجز القول الشعري، والنص الأدبي عموماً، عن الارتقاء إلى ما يُتوقّع منه في اللحظات المفصلية والكارثية التي يسود فيها الخراب، ويجرف فيها الموت أعداداً مهولة من البشر. هذا إن أفلح المرء في الكتابة أصلاً ولم يُصَب بالشلل الإبداعي. وحتى لو نجح، فليس من السهل أن يفلت من شراك شتّى تقف له بالمرصاد على طريق المعانى الوعر. ومن هذه الشراك ما هو واضح كالمباشرة والمنبريّة وغيرها، ومنها ما هو أقل وضوحاً، ...
Keep Reading »What is a Car Bomb?
It is surreal to wake up to news of a car bomb back home, now thousands of miles away. Immediately, the war-shaped body is both numb and preoccupied with images of death and destruction. The mind wanders and sutures the past, present, and future seamlessly. Phone calls, emails, and texts begin. The space between a call and its response seems immense, and the time it takes to hear from blood and choice family--particularly when they live or work or frequent the targeted neighborhood--is bloated with the ...
Keep Reading »HRW Calls on Turkey and Iraq to Open Borders to Syrian Refugees
[The following statement was issued by Human Rights Watch on 14 October 2012.] The Iraqi and Turkish authorities should immediately re-open border crossings where more than 10,000 Syrians have been stranded for weeks and allow all those wishing to seek asylum to cross without delay, Human Rights Watch said today. Tens of thousands of Syrians fleeing recent fighting – including in Syria’s Aleppo, Idlib, and Deir el Zor provinces – are attempting to use the crossings to reach Iraq and Turkey quickly ...
Keep Reading »Tentative Jihad: Syria's Fundamentalist Opposition
[The following report was issued by International Crisis Group on 12 October 2012.] EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Prematurely and exaggeratedly highlighted by the regime and belatedly and reluctantly acknowledged by the opposition, the presence of a powerful Salafi strand among Syria’s rebels has become irrefutable. That is worrisome, but forms only part of a complex picture. To begin, not all Salafis are alike; the concept covers a gamut ranging from mainstream to extreme. Secondly, present-day Syria offers ...
Keep Reading »Invitation: Two Public Events on the Impact and Legality of "Firing Zone 918" Under International Humanitarian Law (Ramallah, 11 October 2012)
Diakonia International Humanitarian Law Resource Centre is pleased to invite you to two public events on the impact and legality of “Firing Zone 918” under International Humanitarian Law (IHL). The events are organized on the occasion of the visit of Prof. Michael Bothe, Professor emeritus of international law from Goethe University, Frankfurt/Main. He is the author of a recent expert opinion in IHL on the "Limits of the right of expropriation (requisition) and of movement restrictions in ...
Keep Reading »Text of Netanyahu's Speech to the UN General Assembly, 2012
[The following statement was made by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the U.N. General Assemby on 27 September, 2012. It was published by the The Algemeiner.] It’s a pleasure to see the General Assembly presided by the Ambassador from Israel, and it’s good to see all of you, distinguished delegates. Ladies and Gentlemen, Three thousand years ago, King David reigned over the Jewish state in our eternal capital, Jerusalem. I say that to all those who proclaim that the Jewish state has no ...
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