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Powerless in Gaza

By Baroness Jenny Tonge

Baroness Tonge writes about her experiences during European Parliamentarians’ trip to Gaza on 6-11 November.
A small girl lies in Al Nasr Children’s Hospital, arms spread out and tied to the bed. Tubes emerge from her belly and an endotracheal tube, leading to a ventilator, is strapped to her mouth.
She is fully conscious and her eyes roll around in terror, appealing to us to do something, as she struggles with the restraints – her doctors can only watch and hope.

She had emergency surgery for an intestinal obstruction and a chest infection followed, hence the ventilator.

Trouble is, the hospital has nearly run out of drugs and they have nothing to relieve her agony. Antibiotics, muscle relaxants, even simple painkillers are not there because of the Israeli blockade on Gaza.

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Israel Launches Covert War inside Iran: Report

Israel is involved in a covert war of sabotage inside Iran in an effort to delay Tehran’s attempts to develop a nuclear weapon, the Daily Telegraph newspaper reported on Tuesday.

Quoting intelligence experts and an unnamed former CIA agent, the newspaper said Israel’s "decapitation" strategy had targeted members of Iran’s atomic program, hoping to set back the country’s nuclear ambitions without resorting to war.

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Paying tribute to Palestinian resistance

IQBAL JASSAT reviews Jaqueline Rose’s The Last Resistance (UK: Verso, 2007), 256 pages, Hbk: £16.99.

A regular contributor to the London Review of Books, Jacqueline Rose has written a compelling new book which Sarah Roy of Harvard University correctly predicts is destined to become a standard in the field of literature on Zionism. Professor of English at Queen Mary’s College, University of London, Rose is also known for the Channel 4 documentary “Dangerous Liaison – Israel and America”, which she wrote and presented.

What makes The Last Resistance a powerful testament of contemporary Israeli politics is its ability to transcend the notorious Nazi era persecution of the Jewish people to position Zionism’s legacy of making life intolerable for another people: the Palestinians. The zionists’ favourite tool is to use the horrors inflicted on the Jewish people as a blunt instrument to stifle discussion, much less criticism of their own persecution of the Palestinians.

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