Israel’s Greatest Loss: Its Moral Imagination

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Written by Henry Siegman Henry Siegman
Published: 11 June 2010 11 June 2010
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So, yes, there is reason for Israelis, and for Jews generally, to think long and hard about the dark Hitler era at this particular time. For the significance of the Gaza Flotilla incident lies not in the questions raised about violations of international law on the high seas, or even about “who assaulted who” first on the Turkish ship, the Mavi Marmara, but in the larger questions raised about our common human condition by Israel’s occupation policies and its devastation of Gaza’s civilian population.
 

 If a people who so recently experienced on its own flesh such unspeakable inhumanities cannot muster the moral imagination to understand the injustice and suffering its territorial ambitions—and even its legitimate security concerns—are inflicting on another people, what hope is there for the rest of us?


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Amira Hass: Not by cement alone

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Written by Amira Hass Amira Hass
Published: 11 June 2010 11 June 2010
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[Amira offers a warning that Israel's true goal for Gaza is to permanently separate Gaza from the West Bank, so ending the material siege does not necessarily keep Israel from achieving this larger goal and efforts should also focus on thwarting and being aware of Israel's larger goal]

"The flotilla, like its predecessors and the ones still to come, serves the Israeli goal, which is to complete the process of separating the Gaza Strip from the West Bank"

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Israeli Gush Shalom Ad published in Haaretz

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Written by GUSH SHALOM GUSH SHALOM
Published: 10 June 2010 10 June 2010
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Which holy principle

Is shared both

By the Government

And the “opposition”?

“Soldiers must not

Be interrogated!”

 

How to call a regime

That forbids criticism

Of the military?

 

It can have

Many names –

Democracy is not

One of them

 

 

Gush Shalom Ad published in Haaretz

June 11, 2010

Israeli Gush Shalom Ad published in Haaretz

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Written by GUSH SHALOM GUSH SHALOM
Published: 10 June 2010 10 June 2010
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Which holy principle

Is shared both

By the Government

And the “opposition”?

“Soldiers must not

Be interrogated!”

 

How to call a regime

That forbids criticism

Of the military?

 

It can have

Many names –

Democracy is not

One of them

 

 

Gush Shalom Ad published in Haaretz

June 11, 2010

Israel eases Gaza embargo . . . to allow snack food

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Written by Reuters Reuters
Published: 09 June 2010 09 June 2010
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[You can blow Cheetos into attics, they make an excellent insulator. Israel once again proves itself amazingly tone-deaf to world opinion and blind to Palestinian suffering]

GAZA (Reuters) - Israel is easing its Gaza embargo to allow snack food and drinks into the Palestinian enclave, Palestinian officials said Wednesday, following an international outcry over Israel's raid on an aid flotilla.

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