Category Archives: Gazing on Gaza

What you need to know about Israel and Palestine right now

Posted on October 9, 2023 by Sabina Becker

First off, MSNBC’s Ali Velshi gives an on-the-ground impression: The situation is really stark, and awful for Palestinians in Gaza particularly (seeing as it’s already the world’s largest open-air prison, this is all too predictable). The Rational National’s David Doel … Continue reading →

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Nazi hate comes for Bernie

Posted on March 6, 2020 by Sabina Becker

Don’t blink, or you’ll miss it. Remember what happened the last time people shut their eyes to a turd in the political punchbowl? Some people do: The perpetrator has a name and a face, by the way. It’s this guy: … Continue reading →

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The idiotic right-wing freak-out over Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez…and Rashida Tlaib

Posted on January 6, 2019 by Sabina Becker

How do you know Donnie’s loyal nitwits are floundering and desperate for any straw to grasp, just to stay afloat? Because the best they can do to discredit one of his fastest-rising progressive critics is to dig up and distort … Continue reading →

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Nikki and the Nakba

Posted on May 16, 2018 by Sabina Becker

No, that’s NOT the name of an ’80s punk band. It’s my quick and dirty summation of the massive fuckery that’s going on in the Middle East right now. And here’s Sam Seder to help make some sense of the … Continue reading →

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Happy Birthday, Ahed Tamimi.

Posted on January 31, 2018 by Sabina Becker

Palestine’s young freedom-fighter turned 17 in jail today. If you want to know just how much of an outrage that is, watch the video.

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While a Palestinian girl sits in jail, Newsweek paints her captors as victims

Posted on January 7, 2018 by Sabina Becker

Jimmy Dore points out the hypocrisy of the major media, who paint Ahed Tamimi as “no angel” (sound familiar?) while her country’s occupiers kill one cousin of hers after another, and shoot her brother in the head. And they make … Continue reading →

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What Ahed Tamimi’s arrest and imprisonment mean

Posted on January 3, 2018 by Sabina Becker

This is obviously the Likud government of Israel, looking to make the Occupied Territories of Palestine finally, fully Israeli. In other words, to erase Palestine altogether. Ahed, inconveniently, decided to fight back against the colonizers, along with her family. That’s … Continue reading →

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Oh, fucking hell.

Posted on December 27, 2017 by Sabina Becker

Whoever in Israel signed off on this idiotic notion, you’re gonna regret that. Maybe. If the whole region doesn’t blow up before this planned station is inaugurated, that is. Good luck with that whole peace process you’ve just thrown down … Continue reading →

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Donnie and Israel threaten the UN — and FAIL!

Posted on December 22, 2017 by Sabina Becker

If you thought Nikki Fucking Haley’s chutzpah was jaw-dropping, get a load of that lisping twit who’s in there for Israel. All the sulking and pouting in the world, however, won’t change the fact that the overwhelming majority of countries … Continue reading →

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Music for a Sunday: Song for Gaza

Posted on October 16, 2016 by Sabina Becker

The crew of the Zaytouna-Olive, the Women’s Boat to Gaza, set an example for us all. They were illegally arrested in international waters and deported by the Israeli occupation force, but their message is still getting out. And making its … Continue reading →

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