(Let op de foto met de vlaggen: je moet Gaza een beetje kennen om te weten hoe belangrijk het is wat daar gebeurt: daar rouwen mensen van Hamas (groene vlaggen), van Fatah (geel) en het Volksfront (rood) samen.)
(The Deeb family was preparing bread when they were killed in their home by Israeli shelling.)
Te gast: Gideon Levy
The legend, lest it be a true story, tells of how the late mathematician, Professor Haim Hanani, asked his students at the Technion to draw up a plan for constructing a pipe to transport blood from Haifa to Eilat. The obedient students did as they were told. Using logarithmic rulers, they sketched the design for a sophisticated pipeline. They meticulously planned its route, taking into account the landscape’s topography, the possibility of corrosion, the pipe’s diameter and the flow calibration. When they presented their final product, the professor rendered his judgment: You failed. None of you asked why we need such a pipe, whose blood will fill it, and why it is flowing in the first place.
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Te gast: Robert Fisk
How easy it is to snap off the history of the Palestinians, to delete the
narrative of their tragedy, to avoid a grotesque irony about Gaza which – in
any other conflict – journalists would be writing about in their first
reports: that the original, legal owners of the Israeli land on which Hamas
rockets are detonating live in Gaza.
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De speech van Bert Cremers, van Doorbreek de stilte, van de PvdA, gisteren in Rotterdam. Erg verkort uitgesproken vanwege het uitvallen van de geluidsinstallatie, maar hier de hele tekst. Met dank aan Marja Bijl
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Te gast: Neve Gordon
The first bombardment took three minutes and 40 seconds. Sixty Israeli F-16 fighter jets bombed 50 sites in Gaza, killing more than 200 Palestinians, and wounding close to 1,000 more.
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Aan het woord: Jaap Hamburger, Een Ander Joods Geluid
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By Stuart Littlewood
While the murderous assault on Gaza continues, I notice there’s a briefing document on the website of the Israeli Embassy in London which has a lie in every line. The West’s mainstream media repeat them, and even the most senior TV and radio interviewers don’t bother to challenge them.
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It began to be clear that all of us meant to be attacked, if not our bodies is our souls and dignity. This morning I decided to visit one of my relatives who was injured yesterday. I did not recognize the streets and the roads. This was very clear that the tears I had in my eyes are due to the bombs. My body is intact and I am not injured but I felt a very deep pain inside me. Why is this happening to us, why us in the world, are we the only people in this world with mistakes. Animals have the right to defend themselves against their enemies, why don’t we have this right?
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Te gast: twee ooggetuigenverslagen van de situatie in het belangrijkste ziekenhuis in Gaza: Shifa hospital
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Gaza today: ‘This is only the beginning’
By Ewa Jasiewicz
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