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hyperbola10 months, 1 week ago
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The NY Times is pretty much revealing itself as a zionist controlled newspaper with this kind of pablum coverage of zionist crimes against humanity.
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Gaza Phone Tag
“…hundreds of thousands of Gazans have received warnings in the form of telephone messages or fliers that their buildings are Israeli targets…”
-- New York Times, 1 January 2009
Israeli soldier: Hello, Abdul, this is the Israel Defense Forces speaking…
Palestinian civilian: My name isn’t Abdul, I think you have the wrong number.
I: As I said this is the IDF, we never have wrong information.
P: So how can I help you?
I: I’m just calling to warn you to evacuate your place because of an imminent airstrike on a Hamas target in your building.
P: But there’s no Hamas in my building.
I: Not even on your street?
P: No, there was a Hamas member of parliament on the next street but you put him in jail.
I: Must be old information, anyway, there’s going to be an airstrike so you better go.
P: Can you tell me where you’d like me to go to?
I: It’s not my business, check into a hotel, stay with relatives on the beach, take a vacation in Cyprus, just go.
P: I’ve been unemployed for a year because of your siege so I can’t afford a hotel right now. My relatives just got bombed on the beach, in the Shati’ refugee camp. And I can’t get out of Gaza because no one can leave.
I: Don’t blame me, I’m just warning you.
P: So, if there were a Hamas guy in my building, what would prevent me from going to warn him so he could escape the airstrike?
I: Hmm… we hadn’t thought of that. I’ll make a note of it for my commanding officer.
P: Are you going to call everyone else in the building, or should I spread the word myself?
I: Do us a favor and tell the women and children. We’re mostly concerned not to harm children.
P: You mean, like the 634 Palestinian minors killed by Israeli security personnel in Gaza since September 2000?
I: Maybe they weren’t civilians--we’re only concerned with civilian children.
P: As opposed to the terroristic children who attack you?
I: Hey, don’t make fun of the IDF, we’re a very sensitive army, we don’t take criticism well.
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http://www.propeller.com/story/2009/01/05/gaza-pho...-
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hyperbola10 months, 1 week ago
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Where's the Academic Outrage Over the Bombing of a University in Gaza?
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Not one of the nearly 450 presidents of American colleges and universities who prominently denounced an effort by British academics to boycott Israeli universities in September 2007 have raised their voice in opposition to Israel’s bombardment of the Islamic University of Gaza earlier this week. Lee C. Bollinger, president of Columbia University, who organized the petition, has been silent, as have his co-signatories from Princeton, Northwestern, and Cornell Universities, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Most others who signed similar petitions, like the 11,000 professors from nearly 1,000 universities around the world, have also refrained from expressing their outrage at Israel’s attack on the leading university in Gaza. The artfully named Scholars for Peace in the Middle East, which organized the latter appeal, has said nothing about the assault.
While the extent of the damage to the Islamic University, which was hit in six separate airstrikes, is still unknown, recent reports indicate that at least two major buildings were targeted, a science laboratory and the Ladies’ Building, where female students attended classes. ...
..the Islamic University is the first and most important institution of higher education in Gaza, serving more than 20,000 students, 60 percent of whom are women. It comprises 10 faculties — education, religion, art, commerce, Shariah law, science, engineering, information technology, medicine, and nursing — and awards a variety of bachelor’s and master’s degrees. Taking into account that Palestinian universities have been regionalized because Palestinian students from Gaza are barred by Israel from studying either in the West Bank or abroad, the educational significance of the Islamic University becomes even more apparent.-
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Those restrictions became international news last summer when Israel refused to grant exit permits to seven carefully vetted students from Gaza who had been awarded Fulbright fellowships by the State Department to study in the United States. After top State Department officials intervened, the students’ scholarships were restored — though Israel allowed only four of the seven to leave, even after appeals by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
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How should academics respond to this assault on an institution of higher education? Regardless of one’s stand on the proposed boycott of Israeli universities, anyone so concerned about academic freedom as to put one’s name on a petition should be no less outraged when Israel bombs a Palestinian university. The question, then, is whether the university presidents and professors who signed the various petitions denouncing efforts to boycott Israel will speak out against the destruction of the Islamic University.
Neve Gordon is chair of the department of politics and government at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Jeff Halper is the Director of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD)
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