Analysis

By Uri Avnery

Oh, Gaza. Strong as death is love.

I loved Gaza. That is a play on words. The Biblical Song of Songs says that love is strong as death. Strong in Hebrew is Aza. Aza is also the Hebrew name of Gaza.

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By Sheldon Richman

And a Whole Lot of Trouble

Shlomo Sand, a remarkable scholar who studies how “peoples,” including the Jewish people, have been invented through myths propagated by court historians and politicians, makes a startling yet obvious connection in his book The Invention of the Land of Israel (2014):

Read more: How an Anti-Semitic American Law Created the State of Israel

By MWC News

Nothing in a swath of land stretching from the Atlantic coast of Africa to China is undisputed.

Read more: Middle Eastern culture wars: The battle of the palates

By Uri Avnery

We all know the picture from the books and the movies: a gambler sits at the roulette table in a casino. He has luck. A lot of luck.

Read more: The Luck of the Gambler

By Sheldon Richman

From April 1950, nearly two years after the Zionists in Palestine unilaterally declared independence for the state of Israel, to March 1951, three bombs exploded among Jews in Baghdad, Iraq: one each outside a cafe on Abu Nawwas Street; at the US Information Centre, a popular reading place for young Jewish Iraqis; and outside the Mas’uda Shemtov synagogue, where Kurdish Jews were awaiting transit to Israel.

Read more: The Abused Jews of Iraq