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Israel: LGBT center shooting in Tel-Aviv

Ever since the news article on the massacre in the LGBT center in Tel Aviv was published, social networks have been flooded with acts of solidarity towards the victims. Hundreds of users have changed their profile image on facebook and twitter to the ...

From GILAD LOTAN, Global Voices Online,  4 Aug 2009
Related Topics: Facebook Inc.,  Twitter Inc

Israel: Eurovision Peace Duo Push for Another Way

Can music help bring us closer together? Noa and Mira Awad hope their message from the Eurovision Song Contest reaches far and wide. Earlier this year, in the midst of the Israeli military operation in Gaza, it was announced that Mira Awad, a ...

From GILAD LOTAN, Global Voices Online,  17 May 2009

Israel: Reflections on the Holocaust Memorial Day and Durban II

Yesterday was the national holocaust memorial day in Israel. Coincidentally, it was also the opening day of the highly contested UN Durban II conference on racism in Geneva. Dozens of delegates have walked out as Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ...

From GILAD LOTAN, Global Voices Online,  21 Apr 2009
Related Topics: United Nations,  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Israel: What Happens when IDF Soldiers Testimonials are Taken Out of Context

Danny Zamir, the program founder, had invited combat soldiers and officers who graduated the program for a lengthy discussion of their experiences in Gaza. They spoke openly, but also with considerable frustration. The session transcript was published ...

From GILAD LOTAN, Global Voices Online,  18 Apr 2009

Israel: Hamas Raids UN Aid in Gaza

Justin wonders why this story, on the United Nations accusing Hamas police in Gaza Strip of seizing thousands of blankets and food parcels meant for needy residents, is not displayed in any of the mainstream media outlets. Kuwaiti Dr Naif Al Mutawa has ...

From GILAD LOTAN, Global Voices Online,  4 Feb 2009
Related Topics: Hamas,  United Nations

Israel: Dealing with the Aftermath of Operation Cast Lead

Ya'akov Amidror from the JCPA blog lists some of the lessons learned from the IDF's recent operation in Gaza: One may assume from the fighting in Gaza that also in the future the IDF will win the asymmetrical fighting if it will take control over the ...

From GILAD LOTAN, Global Voices Online,  2 Feb 2009
Related Topics: Hamas,  NATO,  Shimon Peres,  Thomas Crampton

Israel: Where is Mahmoud al-Zahar?

Senior Hamas official Mahmood el-Zahar is no where to be seen. Gilad Lotan tunes into to the whispers making rounds on the blogs about his possible whereabouts. No Thumbnail A Palestinian source was quoted on Sunday as saying that senior ...

From GILAD LOTAN, Global Voices Online,  28 Jan 2009
Related Topics: Hamas,  Mahmoud al-Zahar,  Ismail Haniyeh

Israel: IDF Operating a Moral War in Gaza?

Yaron reacts by posting the following image, displaying an IDF soldier protecting a baby carriage, while a Hamas fighter uses the baby as a shield: Mr. Halbertal takes quite seriously the threat that Hamas poses to Israel’s existence, and that issue ...

From GILAD LOTAN, Global Voices Online,  18 Jan 2009
Related Topics: Hamas,  Hezbollah

Israel: Unilateral “Ceasefire” Goes Into and Out of Effect

Israel claims to have destroyed roughly 60 percent of the hundreds of tunnels between Gaza and Egypt, and significantly weaken Hamas. “Our fight is not with the people of Gaza,” Olmert said at the Tel Aviv press conference following the cabinet meeting. ...

From GILAD LOTAN, Global Voices Online,  18 Jan 2009
Related Topics: Hamas,  Ariel Sharon

Israel: Voices against the violence

The Hebrew blogosphere is battling over right and wrong, support vs. opposition and what it means to be patriotic to your own country, while at the same time condemning its actions. In this post, I translated four different entries which highlight ...

From GILAD LOTAN, Global Voices Online,  17 Jan 2009
Related Topics: Yasser Arafat,  Hamas,  Tzipi Livni,  Ariel Sharon,  BBC

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