History and Analysis

Context

What You Don’t Know About Gaza by Rashid Khalidi The New York Times January 7, 2009
The Economy of Gaza by Sara Roy CounterPunch October 4, 2006
Disengagement and the Frontiers of Zionism by Darryl Li Middle East Report Online February 16, 2008
Grab more hills, expand the territory by Henry Siegman London Review of Books April 10, 2008
Our Second Biggest Mistake in the Middle East by Alastair Crooke London Review of Books July 5, 2007
How Israel Helped to Spawn Hamas by Andrew Higgins Wall Street Journal January 24, 2009
Diary [PDF] by Louisa Waugh London Review of Books June 5, 2008
The Jailer State by Oren Yiftachel newmatilda.com January 12, 2009
Sacrificing Gaza to revive Israel's Labor party by Smadar Lavie The Electronic Intifada January 19, 2009 (See this 2006 piece for more on the Mizrahi community.)
NEW Our Palestinian Future in Israel: How Long Can We Be Dehumanised in a Racist State? by Khalil Nakhleh Palestine Think Tank January 16, 2009
NEW Gaza siege intensified after collapse of natural gas deal by Mark Turner The Electronic Intifada January 23, 2008
NEW Deadly Gas in Gaza by Mohannad El-Khairy The Palestine Chronicle January 22, 2008
NEW War and Natural Gas: The Israeli Invasion and Gaza's Offshore Gas Fields by Michel Chossudovsky Centre for Research on Globalization January 8, 2009

How Israel brought Gaza to the brink of humanitarian catastrophe by Avi Shlaim The Guardian, January 7, 2009
Israel: End Gaza’s Humanitarian Crisis at Once by Human Rights Watch January 13, 2009
Weighing Crimes and Ethics in Urban Warfare By Steven Erlanger New York Times January 16, 2009
Gaza: Not a War of Self-Defense by Victor Kattan Jurist January 15,2009
Fresh evidence of Israeli phosphorus use in Gaza emerges by Richard Norton-Taylor The Guardian January 17, 2009
NEW Israel admits troops may have used phosphorus shells in Gaza by Peter Beaumont The Guardian January 21, 2009

An Unnecessary War by Jimmy Carter The Washington Post January 8, 2009
Reigniting Violence: How Do Ceasefires End? by Nancy Kanwisher Huffington Post January 6, 2009
(Photos) Scenes from the Gaza Strip The Big Picture January 7, 2009
Dummy or Real? by Ilan Pappé London Review of Books January 14 2009
Birth Pangs of a New Palestine by Mouin Rabbani Middle East Report Online January 7, 2009
If Gaza falls... by Sara Roy London Review of Books January 1, 2009
Crisis Imperils 2-State Plan, Shifting a Balance by Michael Slackman, New York Times January 16, 2009. (More discussion in the NY Times blog.)
How the Gaza War Could End: Three Scenarios Tony Karon Time January 16, 2009 [Update looks like [number 3](http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/17/world/middleeast/17mideast.html?hp).]
Foiling Another Palestinian "Peace Offensive": Behind the bloodbath in Gaza by Norman G. Finkelstein January 19, 2009
NEW Battered Gaza Still In the Grip Of Hamas by By Griff Witte and Jonathan Finer Washington Post January 24, 2009
NEW Fatah fears Gaza conflict has put Hamas in the ascendancy Patrick Cockburn The Independent January 23, 2009

The Great Middle East Peace Process Scam by Henry Siegman London Review of Books August 16 2007
An Open Letter to George Mitchell by Gershom Gorenberg The American Prospect January 28, 2009
The Indian Example by Radhika Sainath The Electronic Intifada January 26, 2009
NEW The settlement-terrorism equation by Aluf Benn Haaretz January 29, 2009

The Time of The Righteous by Gideon Levy, Haaretz January 10, 2009
Gaza's Future by Henry Siegman London Review of Books February 7 2008
Israel in Gaza: A critical reframing by Sadaf Gaza Rahman Facebook January 14, 2009.
Bring In the Diplomats by Richard N. Haass Newsweek Jan 19, 2009
How many Divisions? by Uri Avnery Gush Shalom January 10, 2009
LRB contributors react to events in Gaza London Review of Books January 15, 2009
Playing into the hands of Hamas by Bernard Avishai and Sam Bahour Haaretz January 9, 2009
How to sell 'ethical warfare' by Neve Gordon The Guradian January 16, 2009
What it means to be pro-Israeli by Ezra Klein Haaretz January 16, 2009.
Why Israel Won't Survive by Ali Abunimah The Electronic Intifada January 19, 2009.
Israel's right to defend itself by Joseph Massad The Electronic Intifada January 20, 2009.
Israel's Lies by Henry Siegman London Review of Books January 21, 2009.
Did Obama Set-up Mitchell to Fail in the Middle East? by Mazin Qumsiyeh The Palestine Chronicle January 23, 2009
NEW Israel Must Stop Fanning the Flames That Will Consume Us by David Grossman Washington Post January 25, 2009
NEW Israel's Righteous Fury and its victims in Gaza by Ilan Pappe The Electronic Intifada January 2, 2009

changed February 17, 2009