From Occupied Palestine

If Gaza falls...
SARA ROY
London Review of Books v31 n1 (1 January 2009)

Parallel lives
DALIA KARPEL
Ha'aretz, 4 October 2007

When she was in fifth grade, her father took her to the Golan Heights and showed her where he had lost his best friends in the battle for the Tel Faher outpost on June 9, 1967. "For years, that battle was an inaccessible emotional zone for him," says Nufar Yishai-Karin, a clinical psychologist whose years in the shadow of her father's battle trauma shaped her consciousness and steered her to her profession.

Children of war
GIDEON LEVY
Ha'aretz, 2 September 2007

War enters the classroom
JON ELMER
Inter Press Service, 6 February 2007

Gaza City (IPS) - The United Nations has indefinitely suspended elementary school classes for tens of thousands of Gaza City's children following a weekend of unprecedented factional violence, which turned this isolated enclave into a war zone and left at least 27 dead and 250 wounded.

The children killed in a war the world doesn't want to know about
DONALD MACINTYRE
Independent, 19 September 2006

Rafah -- Nayef Abu Snaima says his 14-year-old cousin Jihad had been sitting on the edge of an olive grove talking animatedly to him about what he would do when he grew up when he was killed instantly by an Israeli shell.

The boy who was buried twice
GIDEON LEVY
Ha'aretz, 9 September 2006

Saja'iya, Gaza City -- Abdullah a-Zakh identified his son's body by the belt. The shoes and socks also looked familiar, irrefutable proof that he had lost his son. In the morgue of Shifa Hospital, after hours of searching, he found the bottom part of the boy's body. The next day, when Operation "Gan Na'ul" - "Locked Kindergarten" - ended and the Israel Defense Forces exited the Saja'iya neighborhood of Gaza, leaving behind 22 dead and large-scale destruction, the other body parts were found.

Nasrallah didn't mean to
AMIRA HASS
Ha'aretz, 16 August 2006

During the past month, Hezbollah's Katyushas killed 18 Israeli Arabs among the 41 Israeli civilians who died in the war. Clearly, Hassan Nasrallah didn't mean to kill them. But as someone who knows that many Arabs live in northern Israel, and as someone who knows that the launchers for his inaccurate Katyushas cannot choose the target they will hit - the fact that it was unintended is meaningless.

Awakening the resistance
JENNIFER LOEWENSTEIN
Counterpunch, 10 August 2006

Thousands of Lebanese, Palestinians and others made a kind of pilgrimage to Fatima's gate in the summer of 2000 to celebrate the end of Israel

Almost half the fatalities in the Gaza Strip in July were civilians not taking part in the hostilities
B'Tselem Press release, 8 August 2006

In July, the Israeli military killed 163 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, 78 of whom (48 percent) were not taking part in the hostilities when they were killed. Thirty-six of the fatalities were minors, and 20 were women. In the West Bank, 15 Palestinians were killed by Israeli forces in July. The number of Palestinian fatalities in July was the highest in any month since April 2002.

God's chosen people
JOSTEIN GAARDER
Aftenposten, 5 August 2006

[Translated from Norwegian by Sirocco]

There is no turning back. It is time to learn a new lesson: We do no longer recognize the state of Israel. We could not recognize the South African apartheid regime, nor did we recognize the Afghan Taliban regime. Then there were many who did not recognize Saddam Hussein's Iraq or the Serbs' ethnic cleansing. We must now get used to the idea: The state of Israel in its current form is history.