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
Human Rights
- 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
War
- 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
Peace
- 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
Opinion
- 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
Other, similar, collections
- J Street Perspectives
- Brit Tzedek Resource Page on the Israel-Gaza Crisis
- Gaza Siege Resources
- Be sure to check out our resources page for even more: blogs, organizations, news, etc.
changed February 17, 2009