Gaza
This conflict in the Holy Land must end – for the children’s sake
The enduring fact of the failure of peace in the so-called Holy Land is a royal spring of misery from which bitter tensions flow, with mournful consequences for the entire restive middle-east region, already strained by wars and rumours of wars.
By Emanuel Stoakes | Notebook, Opinion, The Foreign Desk | Monday, 9 July 2012 at 12:26 pm
Israel, Netanyahu and The ‘Gilad Factor’
The main ring road that runs through the city of Jerusalem and past Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s residency has, for a little over two years, been home to Noam and Aviva Shalit, the distraught and disheveled parents of kidnapped IDF soldier Gilad.
By Oliver Duggan | The Foreign Desk | Monday, 17 October 2011 at 1:19 pm
Mic Righteous; the latest case of BBC impartiality-syndrome
“I can still scream free Pale*****”, raps Mic Righteous on Fire In The Booth, Charlie Sloth’s hugely popular hip-hop showcase on BBC Radio 1Xtra. As the smashing glass effect proved, Mic Righteous was wrong; on the BBC, the words ‘Free Palestine’ are not allowed.
By Jody McIntyre | Notebook | Monday, 23 May 2011 at 11:14 am
A welcome reconciliation
Divide and conquer. One of the oldest methods of colonialist powers. Sow seeds of division amongst the people you are there to “civilise”, in order to weaken their resistance against your occupation of their land.
Since 2006, when democratic elections in Palestine led to the victory of Hamas, and the subsequent US-backed Fatah attempted coup to [...]
By Jody McIntyre | The Foreign Desk | Thursday, 28 April 2011 at 1:41 pm
Goldstone’s apparent U-turn does not change the reality on the ground
Last week, scores were killed in Gaza after renewed Israeli air strikes. Initial rumours of plans to launch an ‘Operation Scorching Summer’ seem to have been dispelled, although it was another bloody week for the battered yet resilient people of Gaza.
By Jody McIntyre | The Foreign Desk | Friday, 15 April 2011 at 1:03 pm
As Saleh clings on for dear life, Israel bombs Gaza
If soon to be ex-President Ali Saleh thinks the Yemeni people can be tricked so easily, he really has “lost it”. He will leave by the end of the year he says! Wasn’t it going to be by the end of his term, in 2013, a few weeks ago? The continued strength of the people [...]
By Jody McIntyre | The Foreign Desk | Wednesday, 23 March 2011 at 11:04 am
Disasters and the media
How should journalists report disasters and humanitarian relief operations? What is the right balance between stirring the sympathies of viewers and readers, which will increase contributions to the response, and pointing out the problems and the gaps? Between compassion and complexity? That was the subject of a recent symposium, organised by NGO Plan UK, with [...]
By Sir John Holmes | Notebook | Tuesday, 22 February 2011 at 4:03 pm
How can we resist?
An uprising that was sparked on Valentine’s Day; how romantic? Not so for the people of Bahrain. As a tide of resistance continues to sweep across the Arab world, protestors in Manama, the country’s capital, were met with the brutal force of the Bahraini security forces; an assault which left up to six people dead, and many more injured.
By Jody McIntyre | Notebook | Friday, 18 February 2011 at 3:36 pm
The lion and the lion tamer
They say that the relationship between a dictator and the people of his country is like that of a lion tamer and a lion; the lion tamer knows that the lion could eat him at any point. In fact, everyone knows that the lion could eat him at any point, apart from the lion itself. Yesterday, the Egyptian people awoke from a lion’s slumber.
By Jody McIntyre | Notebook | Wednesday, 26 January 2011 at 2:29 pm
Two years after Operation Cast Lead, Gaza remains imprisoned
It feels strange to spend time over the Christmas period in a quiet Yorkshire village with family; this time last year, I was on my way to the Gaza Strip. It was the second time I had travelled to Gaza; the first time was in March 2009, just a few months after Israel had launched [...]
By Jody McIntyre | Eagle Eye | Tuesday, 28 December 2010 at 10:57 am
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