Category Archives: Gazing on Gaza

Lebensborn, Israeli style?

Posted on August 22, 2014 by Sabina Becker

Nazi officers overseeing the baptism of a baby of the Lebensborn program. Germany, 1936. Photographer unknown. Source: German Bundesarchiv, via Wikimedia Commons. That not-so-fine line between “Never Again” and “It’s not fascism when WE do it!” just got blurred yet … Continue reading →

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Quotable: Naomi Wolf on Gaza

Posted on August 9, 2014 by Sabina Becker

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The “most moral army in world” shits all over Gaza. Literally.

Posted on August 8, 2014 by Sabina Becker

Israeli troops may have (momentarily) withdrawn from the Gaza Strip, but they haven’t really left it. Traces of them still cling to everything they’ve occupied, and not in a good way: When Ahmed Owedat returned to his home 18 days … Continue reading →

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Two maps that say it all

Posted on August 1, 2014 by Sabina Becker

First, the meaning of the ludicrous term “buffer zone”: …which also explains why there was a massacre in Shejaiya this week. What a coincidence that that’s the very area Israel decided to annex! And where are Gazans supposed to go…into … Continue reading →

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Israeli crapaganda is for the birds. Literally.

Posted on July 28, 2014 by Sabina Becker

Who would think the shrapnel injuries to an owl (a BIRD, for fucksakes) to be more worth mentioning than the deaths of over 1000 Gazan citizens, fully a quarter of them children, even as Eid al-Fitr gets underway? The Times … Continue reading →

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Quotable: Jon Stewart on the Gaza bombings

Posted on July 15, 2014 by Sabina Becker

More than ever, Jon is my hero: It seems pretty safe to say that he is no Zionist…and that is a good thing.

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Music for a Sunday: In silence and darkness…

Posted on July 13, 2014 by Sabina Becker

Whenever there’s ghastly violence somewhere in the world, this great (and greatly underrated) Genesis suite comes to mind. It’s a three-part song that veers from quiet contemplation of love lost, to nightmares of tragedy, to outrage and back. Right now, … Continue reading →

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Music for a Sunday: Unsettling Goods

Posted on December 1, 2013 by Sabina Becker

Singer-songwriter Tony Quarrington makes the case for boycotting Israeli settler goods. Be sure to watch to the end, so you know what to cross off your holiday shopping lists.

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Sorry to Grinch you, but…

Posted on December 24, 2012 by Sabina Becker

…this seasonal message just had to be said: And while we celebrate the birthday of Jesus, how about the death of irony? Gaza militants violated laws of war by launching hundreds of rockets at Israeli civilians during last month’s fighting, … Continue reading →

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Spooks just got spookier

Posted on December 10, 2012 by Sabina Becker

And also downright necrophiliac… And no, this is not a metaphor for the spy industry. This shit is absolutely literal. Sudanese officials are said to have concluded that the bird was a secret agent after discovering it was fitted with … Continue reading →

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