Tag Archives: Gaza

(All Red Lines Crossed) Israel and Hamas Forever War in Gaza (2024)

Posted on January 2, 2025 by zjb

2024 –the year following October 7, 2023– was a long year of bewildering violence against civilians defined by systemic destruction of human life on both sides of the border between Israel and Gaza. Nothing coheres its disorientation of political consciousness. … Continue reading →

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(New Norms) Anti-Zionism on Campus (October 7)

Posted on June 26, 2024 by zjb

                                                                           To the degree discourse about Israel and Palestine has been captured by the student and faculty left, the university has been made more strange in the wake of the Hamas terrorist attacks on October 7. On the one … Continue reading →

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There Is No Friend/Enemy Distinction in Israel & Palestine (May 2019)

Posted on May 6, 2019 by zjb

Until proven otherwise, after the latest round of bloodletting after the latest round of bloodletting right before the elections in Israel, it is more than clear that there is no friend/enemy distinction in Israel and Palestine. The friend/enemy distinction is … Continue reading →

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(Guilt, Morality, and Justice) Israel-Palestine 2012 (A Curse)

Posted on November 25, 2012 by zjb

My FB friends have wisely moved on, but I still want to try to get a wrap on the events of last week, so that I too might move on to things that matter more than Israel and Hamas. I’m … Continue reading →

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Photographs (Gaza) (2012)

Posted on November 21, 2012 by zjb

Pictures don’t say “anything,” they say “nothing” and certainly not “everything” as much as they show us “something.” I wanted to share this photograph gallery from the progressive Israeli website +972. They were created and distributed by Activestills, “a collective of … Continue reading →

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No Exit Nothing (Israel-Gaza)

Posted on November 20, 2012 by zjb

About Israel and Gaza, at first, when the fighting starts, there’s a lot to say. My initial attempts to get a handle on things had to do with “perspective” and “sympathy.” But the more and more anyone follows this story, … Continue reading →

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Israel-Gaza Calculations (Elections, Ahmed Jabari, and Ehud Barak)

Posted on November 19, 2012 by zjb

  What moves most of us about Israel and Gaza, I think, are the stories relating to threat and slaughter suffered by innocent people. That is the moral dimension to armed conflict. But what about the “wicked” who determine these … Continue reading →

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An Israel Hamas Timeline, 2012 (Territory, Population, Sovereignty)

Posted on November 17, 2012 by zjb

If you’re trying to keep track of the events leading up to the current conflict between Israel and Hamas, I’m recommending the following  timeline by Emily Hauser which  was posted by Robert Wright at the Atlantic, and which I’m posting … Continue reading →

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Israel-Gaza (No Enemies) (Sympathy & Criticism)

Posted on November 16, 2012 by zjb

(Michal Rovner, Outside, 1991) I remember during the 2006 Lebanon War or 2008-9 Gaza War sitting on the 1 train going downtown from 116th Street and there was an Arab twenty-something, wearing a keffiyeh, sitting across from me. It looked … Continue reading →

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Israel, Gaza, Solidarity, & Sympathy (2012)

Posted on November 15, 2012 by zjb

What did the Hamas leadership expect shelling southern Israel? A government, in this case, the government of Israel, has the right and obligation to defend its people. And then what? What does the Israeli leadership expect is going to happen … Continue reading →

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