Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Eva Bartlett AL ZAHARA, Central Gaza Strip, Aug 24, 2010 (IPS) – In a bright and spacious classroom, with plants overflowing in the courtyard outside, six students lean forward at their desks looking at the 10-digit addition they are asked to make. One student stands before the [...]
MIDEAST: Stitching Together a Living, Somehow
August 20, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Mel Frykberg GAZA CITY, Aug 20, 2010 (IPS) – Just off Omar Al-Mukhtar Street, Gaza City’s main thoroughfare, in a narrow, sandy alley way is a little second-hand clothing shop. In the dimly lit store, with only intermittent electricity for some hours a day at best, sits [...]
MIDEAST: Injured Workers Man Battered Services
August 9, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Eva Bartlett GAZA CITY, Aug 9, 2010 (IPS) – Outside the battered Civil Defence station in northern Gaza’s Jabalia region, Mohammed Zidan, a seven-year veteran of fire-fighting and rescue services, stands on crutches in front of battered Civil Defence vehicles. Zidan, 31, lost his right leg during [...]
MIDEAST: On the Freedom Flight From Gaza, For a While
August 7, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Nasser Barakat* GAZA CITY, Aug 7, 2010 (IPS) – I tasted freedom for the first time in three years. After being stuck in Gaza since 2007 I travelled to Malaysia for a holiday. It was like visiting another planet. Being treated like a human being and being [...]
MIDEAST: Hamas Slowly Islamising Gaza
August 3, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Mel Frykberg RAMALLAH, Aug 3, 2010 (IPS) – Gazans are caught between a rock and a hard place. While Israel continues to apply a crippling siege on the coastal territory, Gaza’s Hamas government is cracking down on civil and political liberties in what appears to be a [...]
‘Mediterranean Intifada’ Helping Hamas
July 9, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Adam Morrow and Khaled Moussa Al-Omrani CAIRO, Jul 9, 2010 (IPS) – Israel’s deadly assault on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla last month has led to mounting international pressure to end the ongoing Israeli and Egyptian blockade of the Gaza Strip. The incident, say local analysts, has also [...]
Now Israel Is Under Siege
June 7, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS Analysis by Jerrold Kessel and Pierre Klochendler JERUSALEM, Jun 7, 2010 (IPS) – The elemental reason for the outbreak of the seminal June 1967 Arab-Israel war was Israel’s self-inflicted doom prophecy that "the Arabs just want to throw us in the sea". In effect, that prophecy never materialised. [...]
Israel Censors News on Deadly Flotilla Raid
June 4, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Mel Frykberg TEL AVIV, Jun 3, 2010 (IPS) – Attempts by media to interview some of the hundreds of Free Gaza (FG) members, who were being deported from Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion International Airport, Wednesday, were thwarted by Israeli authorities. "No you will not be able to [...]
Obama Seeks to Quiet Outrage over Gaza Flotilla Killings
June 2, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Jim Lobe* WASHINGTON, Jun 1, 2010 (IPS) – Amid nearly universal condemnation of Monday’s pre-dawn Israeli assault in international waters on a flotilla carrying humanitarian and reconstruction aid bound for Gaza, the administration of President Barack Obama has steadfastly avoided assigning blame. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton [...]
Killings Could Boomerang on Israel
May 31, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS Analysis by Jerrold Kessel and Pierre Klochendler JERUSALEM, May 31, 2010 (IPS) – What exactly happened on the high seas off the Gaza-Israel coast remains in murky waters. Already though, the implications of Israel’s assault on the peace flotilla of civilian vessels headed with humanitarian relief supplies for [...]
