News from Gaza - inside the open air prison

First - A short video showing life in Gaza today (actually, before the Israeli attacks), the reality of a Gaza cut off from the world, from food, fuel and even the humanitarian supplies necessitated by the failure of diplomatic efforts: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=DSzn7XLLM7c&eurl=&feature=player_embedded

"Slouching Toward a Palestinian Holocaust", an article by American Jewish writer and diplomat, Richard Falk - an insightful (although long and involved) reflection, written in 2007, which sheds light on events in Gaza these past two days: http://www.transnational.org/Area_MiddleEast/2007/Falk_PalestineGenocide.html

Another article by Sara Roy, to be published January 1 in the London Review of Books - summarizes the recent history of the blockade of Gaza and the roles of the U.S., Israel, the U.N. and others in the failure of the peace process: http://www.lrb.co.uk/v31/n01/print/roy_01_.html

All three of these resources provided by Sam Bahour in Ramallah, who publishes eNews about what is going on inside the Palestinian areas. To subscribe to his list, go to: http://lists.riseup.net/www/info/epalestine To subscribe to his listserve, send mail to:epalestine-subscribe@lists.riseup.net