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Neither seeing nor believing

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By Gideon Levy

The dogs no longer bark as the army convoy passes. The hospitals in Gaza and Israel are filling up with casualties, including more and more children and babies, and yet no one cries out and the defense forces are unmoved.

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(jongetje Khaled Wahba naar zijn begrafenis)

Last week we related the story of baby Khaled Wahba, whose pregnant mother and brother were killed in an army operation in Gaza, and who was lying paralyzed in Dana Children’s Hospital in Tel Aviv. With his uncle Mohammed by his side, between last Sunday and Monday, Khaled took his last breath. He was just a year and a half old.
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Dagboek 17 juli 2006

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Ik doe mijn best om niet de hele dag met Palestina/Libanon/Israel bezig te zijn. En niet de hele dag achter de PC te hangen, om elk nieuws en bericht op te vangen.

Condoleeza Rice vindt een staakt het vuren niet nodig, ‘want dat lost niets op’. Zie Haaretz. Het zou natuurlijk wel een boel doden schelen, het zou de aanleiding kunnen zijn om het op een andere manier op te lossen dan met geweld, maar Rice vindt dat ‘geen oplossing’. Een andere dan Israel maar het groene licht te geven om door te gaan met bombarderen heeft ze kennelijk ook niet.
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Who started?

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By Gideon Levy

“We left Gaza and they are firing Qassams” – there is no more precise a formulation of the prevailing view about the current round of the conflict. “They started,” will be the routine response to anyone who tries to argue, for example, that a few hours before the first Qassam fell on the school in Ashkelon, causing no damage, Israel sowed destruction at the Islamic University in Gaza.
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A Black Flag

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Te gast: Israelische journalist Gideon Levy van Haaretz.

By Gideon Levy

A black flag hangs over the “rolling” operation in Gaza. The more the operation “rolls,” the darker the flag becomes. The “summer rains” we are showering on Gaza are not only pointless, but are first and foremost blatantly illegitimate. It is not legitimate to cut off 750,000 people from electricity. It is not legitimate to call on 20,000 people to run from their homes and turn their towns into ghost towns. It is not legitimate to penetrate Syria’s airspace. It is not legitimate to kidnap half a government and a quarter of a parliament.
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There is no hunger in Gaza

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There is no hunger in Gaza
By Gideon Levy, Haaretz

For the information of all the anxious: There is no hunger in the territories. No baby has died of malnutrition; no child is walking around with a swollen belly. There is no lack of flour, and from Rafah to Jenin rice is available. Let the tongue-cluckers relax: The talk about a “humanitarian disaster” is exaggerated. The international relief and aid organizations are trying in despair to cry “wolf,” to alert the Israelis and the world and enlist them in the cause to save the Palestinian people, knowing that only exaggerated talk might move anyone. They might be right, but their calls are coming too soon, and also much too late.
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As the Hamas team laughs

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By Gideon Levy, Haaretz

The Hamas team had not laughed so much in a long time. The team, headed by the prime minister’s advisor Dov Weissglas and including the Israel Defense Forces chief of staff, the director of the Shin Bet and senior generals and officials, convened for a discussion with Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni on ways to respond to the Hamas election victory. Everyone agreed on the need to impose an economic siege on the Palestinian Authority, and Weissglas, as usual, provided the punch line: “It’s like an appointment with a dietician. The Palestinians will get a lot thinner, but won’t die,” the advisor joked, and the participants reportedly rolled with laughter. And, indeed, why not break into laughter and relax when hearing such a successful joke? If Weissglas tells the joke to his friend Condoleezza Rice, she would surely laugh too.
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Palestina (3)

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(Hebron)

Terwijl we in de media op de hoogte worden gehouden van de ontvoeringen in Gaza, worden er ook op andere plekken mensen gekidnapt – waar we nooit van zouden horen als er niet een paar hardnekkige Israelische journalisten waren, Amira Hass en Gideon Levy van Haaretz die onvermoeibaar doorgaan met het beschrijven van de dagelijkse realiteit van de bezetting.
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Good morning to the Israeli Left

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By Gideon Levy (Ha’aretz)

Good morning to the Israeli left. After an eternally long hibernation, we are starting to hear the sounds of its awakening. Only when the wind is once again blowing in its direction – and not because of anything it did – does the extra-parliamentary left dare to come out of the closet where it locked itself up more than four years ago.
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