Subject: Gaza Strip

• 'Disengagement': Just Another Brick in the Wall

  August 15, 2005

• Morning Report 8/16/05
  Unsettling Developments

  August 16, 2005

• Morning Report 8/19/05
  Dual Disloyalty: Feith and the Occupations of Gaza and Iraq

  August 19, 2005

• School's a Blast in Middle East

  September 26, 2007

• TABLOIDED: The Mourning After Heath Ledger

  January 24, 2008

• Daily Flog: Doom day -- Election shakes, global bombings, massive firings

  October 30, 2008

• Drop a ball on Times Square! Drop a bomb on Gaza!

  An agitprop video from the Israeli government. See the Forward's "YouTube Yanks Israeli Army Videos." Who would have guessed that, with the end of the disastrous Bush regime in sight, we would have been so gloomy on New Year's Eve 2008? You'd think this would be a time of celebration, or at least some happy whistling to ourselves as we sweep out Dick Cheney's accumulated droppings from the past eight years. But the dropping's not done, and the deepest suffering is yet to come, as the fallo

  December 31, 2008

• amNY Finds Upsides to New Year, Which We Partially Endorse

  You might expect us, as board-certified curmudgeons, to note the end of 2008 with bleak visions of a hellish new year. But our colleague Ward Harkavy has already posted the mother of all New Year's bummers ("Drop a ball on Times Square! Drop a bomb on Gaza!"), so we turn instead to such glimmers of hope as are provided by amNY, which says "New Yorkers have some things to look forward to." For one thing, they agree with us that the "dismal news on the housing front" means rents are going to drop,

  December 31, 2008

• Mike Bloomberg launches preemptive trip to Israel; invasion of NYC unlikely

  Waltz With Bashir, a movie that sprang from a previous Israeli invasion of Lebanon, won Best Picture from the National Society of Film Critics. A free Madoff Watch T-shirt to the reader who suggests the best title for the first movie spurred by Israel's current invasion of Gaza. On an overseas trip while Rome burns, Mike Bloomberg is acting as if term limits remained intact and he couldn't run for another term. The mayor's in Israel, having a "blast," as the Post puts it, during the invasio

  January 5, 2009

• Bloomberg Defends Israel Stance

  Having this weekend visited Israel and strongly backed that country's incursion into Gaza, Mayor Bloomberg has reaffirmed his support, saying "This is one of those clear-cut cases. There's one terrorist organization that says repeatedly we're going to try to kill and maim as many innocent people as we can," and referring to New York's "special relationship with Israel." The Mayor is seen on Fox 5 News, saying in the upper register he traditionally uses to express strong feeling, "You should go o

  January 6, 2009

• Americans start acting responsibly, sending country deeper into depression

  Your own private Idaho. When you can no longer afford even a night out in Boise, Idaho, your country's in deep financial trouble. In a clever immorality tale about 21st century capitalism, the Wall Street Journal tells us this morning that people in the Intermountain West are having to give up meet and potatoes. Like many other families throughout the country, the average-American Capp and Muir families have had to stop spending and start saving. No more nights out in downtown Boise. The Ca

  January 6, 2009

• Jews v. Arabs: It's war, even if the 'Times' tries to avoid calling it that

  Al Jazeera reporting on the war in Gaza Will somebody please call this a war? You won't find the word "war" in this morning's lede story in the New York Times on Israel's bombardment and invasion of Gaza. Is the Times afraid of offending New York's Jews, especially the right-wing Jewish establishment? Is it fearful of provoking a slew of accusations from that hawkish establishment that the paper is antisemitic? Probably. But that's nuts. The word pops up several times in the city's main J

  January 7, 2009

• News From All Over

  Outside the New York perimeter, the world is, as usual, blowing up. Israel observed a brief truce to allow humatarian aid into Gaza, and then commenced to bomb the shit out of them again. Russia is doing its usual mid-winter nut-squeeze on the oil pipeline leading through the Ukraine to Europe, and blaming the Ukraine for it. This will persist until the Ukraine pays more for Russian gas. Turkey arrested 30 men, including retired generals and a former police chief, claiming they wanted to overthr

  January 7, 2009

• Palestinian Supporters, Jon Stewart Dis Mayor

  A pro-Palestinian demonstration was held at City Hall yesterday, WCBS reports, and part of the entertainment was a chance to throw shoes at a picture of Michael Bloomberg. The larger point was to criticize Bloomberg for his implication that New York supported Israel in its conflict with Gaza. "He doesn't speak for all New Yorkers," said councilman Charles Barron, who also demanded an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. Barron said that people who felt similarly should not "be afraid to stand up and sa

  January 8, 2009

• Blintzkrieg in Gaza; Madoff covers up family jewels

  "Gaza medics in the line of fire," from Al Jazeera Congratulations to the New York Times. The word "war" made it into a front-page story this morning about Israel's war on Gaza. Ethan Bronner's piece even sports the word in its headline: "Gaza War Role Is Political Lift for Ex-Premier." As I noted yesterday, the Times has a particular problem calling a spade a spade in the Middle East. Witness one of its other war stories this morning, Steven Erlanger's "Rockets Fired From Lebanon Into Is

  January 8, 2009

• 'Times' declares war on news, gets right in your grille -- for a change

  The Times as Jimmy Cagney and the reader as Mae Clarke. It's about time. A banner day for the New York Times. Newspapers that don't go out for blood are worthless. The Times often should be itself flayed because it so often doesn't take full advantage of its tremendous resources and usually undeserved clout and instead exudes arrogance and condescension. This morning, however, its reporters slapped on their fedoras and got the goods, and their editors snapped out of it, rolled up their Br

  January 9, 2009

• Joe the Plumber Says No One Should Report from Israel Except Joe the Plumber

  There were protests over the Gaza incursion in New York this weekend -- a pro-Palestinian one at West 55th Street and Eighth Avenue, at which seven police officers were reported hurt and ten protesters arrested, and a pro-Israeli one near the UN. Meanwhile Joe the Plumber was in Israel, telling the Associated Press that reporters should not be allowed report on the war. "I don't think journalists should be anywhere allowed war [sic]," said the Pajamas Media embed/buffoon. "I think media shoul

  January 12, 2009

• Bin Laden Back, Calls for Jihad; Nude Celebrity Angle Found

  It's been a season of comebacks: Mickey Rourke, Kurt Warner, and now Osama Bin Laden. A voice that "resembled that of bin Laden in previous messages" has told followers via audiotape to prepare "for jihad to stop the aggression on Gaza." The alleged Osama further claims that Israel is trying to "get rid of their enemies in Gaza" before the inauguration of Obama. whom the voiceover artist says will suffer a "heavy inheritance" from the conflict: "If he withdraws from the war, it is a military

  January 14, 2009

• Super Sunday! Bread and circuses and suicide bombings!

  The Taliban conduct a night ambush against U.S. troops on January 24. A commenter on this YouTube video wrote: "holy cow, tracer rounds are so cool!" Yeah, really cool. What a Sunday in sports and terror: Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer fought to the death in a Grand Slam final, and so did the Pittsburgh Steelers and Arizona Cardinals. Best Super Bowl I've ever seen. Best display of tennis skills I've ever seen. Now that those matches are over, let the real games begin. Sorry, Cardinal fans,

  February 2, 2009

• The mark of cane: Governor Paterson keeps getting blindsided by personal shots

  From the New Yorker's "Your Eustace, 2009," the mag's annual contest for the best new version of Rea Irvin's classic cover, this entry (one of 12 winners — and my favorite) is "Eustace, the Undead New Yorker," by David Cook of Suwanee, Georgia. Further proof of the schizophrenic media culture: Despite the widespread political correctness that infects discourse on numerous topics, Governor David Paterson keeps getting hammered because his eyes don't work right. Israel's ever-increasing

  February 3, 2009

• Drama at the Food Coop

  There's drama at the Park Slope Food Coop over a proposal to ban Israeli food products to protest fighting in Gaza. [NY Post]A new study finds that living in a neighborhood with a high concentration of fast food restaurants may increase your risk of stroke by 13 percent.[U.S. News & World Report]An increasing number of New Yorkers are composting food waste in their own (often very small) homes.[NY Times]Hollis Famous Burgers, a burger joint in Queens, is doubling as a hip hop museum.[NY Time

  February 20, 2009

• Anti-Semitic? Controversy Over Caryl Churchill's Seven Jewish Children Continues

  Debate continues to rage in the British press as to whether or not Caryl Churchill's new playlet Seven Jewish Children is anti-Semitic or not. The 10-minute piece, which was written is response to Israel's invasion of Gaza, just concluded its run at London's Royal Court, where it was met with a range of sometimes impassioned responses.

  February 25, 2009

• Caryl Churchill's Controversial Seven Jewish Children Gets New York Hearing

  Photo from the Royal Court's February production in London For a minor playlet, Caryl Churchill's Seven Jewish Children has certainly generated quite the brouhaha. In seven brief scenes, the 10-minute piece tracks 80 years of Jewish history--from the Nazi era to the recent Gaza invasion--in the form of a conversation about how Jewish children should be taught about what's happening in the world around them. In London, the Royal Court's February production of Seven Jewish Children caused a tem

  March 26, 2009

• New York Jewish Film Festival Reflects a Semitic Identity Crisis

  January 14, 2009

• Will the Latest Jerusalem Bloodshed Be Followed By Talks or Intifada?

  March 25, 2008

• Where the Hell Are You?

  January 1, 2002

• Say My Name

  March 7, 2006

• Return of the Oppressed

  January 19, 1999

• Shoot to Maim

  February 20, 2001

• Political Ads Shot Down

  February 27, 2001

• Uprooting the Olive Branch

  August 28, 2001

• Dove Tales

  October 23, 2001

• Palestine 101

  July 30, 2002

• Crime Scenes

  July 30, 2002

• Film

  October 1, 2002

• Battle of the Wombs

  December 3, 2002

• Music

  February 18, 2003

• Intrigue in Gaza

  December 2, 2003

• Tracing the Roots of Violence and the Rise of Sharonism

  May 4, 2004

• Bush, Whacked

  May 18, 2004

• Meanwhile in Palestine

  September 28, 2004

• Standing Still Is Drama in Gaza

  August 16, 2005

• Letters

  August 23, 2005

• The Lost Dream of Peace

  Sharon's life, and Israel's, in the balance

  January 3, 2006

• Girl, Interrupted

  October 10, 2006

• The Cold, Cold Heart of Hamas

  With new killings of Palestinians and Israelis, is a two-state solution gone?

  March 18, 2008

• Unsettled: Burningly Smart

  May 6, 2008

• Progressive Scan

  May 30, 2006

• Rita, Katrina: Religious Fringe Sees Apocalypse Now

  September 20, 2005

• Letter From Gaza

  August 13, 2002