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The Israel-Palestine Conflict: Causes, Consequences, and the Impending Abyss


IPRD Background Analysis

Zionism in Gaza's Shattered Mirror PDF
By M. Shahid Alam, Professor of Economics, Northeastern University

Has Israel Forfeited its Right to Exist as a Separate State? PDF
By Kees van der Pijl, Professor of International Relations, University of Sussex

Understanding the Gaza Catastrophe PDF
By Richard Falk, UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in the Palestinian Territories, 6 January 2008

Global Human Rights Groups Protest Slaughter in Gaza PDF
By Stephen Lendman, 5 January 2008

The Origins of the Israel-Palestine Conflict: Settler-Colonialism, Apartheid and Political Zionism PDF
By Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed, 5 January 2009

The Media Narrative on Palestine and Israel PDF
By Ahmed Bouzid, Published in association with Palestine Media Watch (PMW), 1 January 2008

  

Expert Perspectives

Robert Fisk: How can you trust the cowardly BBC?

Richard Falk: Israel’s War Crimes

Peter Beaumont: Gaza war crime claims gather pace as more troops speak out

Mahmood Pervez Alam: From Paralyzed Will to Sterilized Conscience

Mark Steel: Now we've all seen through the Israeli government's excuses

PM Gordon Brown, Here Is My Shopping List

Richard Falk: Gaza like Warsaw Ghetto

Neve Gordon: How to sell 'ethical warfare'

Robert Fisk: Posturing and laughter as victims rot

Amid dust and death, a family's story speaks for the terror of war

Robert Fisk: So, I asked the UN secretary general, isn't it time for a war crimes tribunal?

Chomsky: Undermining Gaza

'Gaza carnage recap on Holocaust'

Israel accused of war crimes over 12-hour assault on Gaza village

Gaza: War, from a distance

Untold stories lie buried in the rubble

Letters: Growing outrage at the killings in Gaza

Gideon Levy: Someone must stop Israel's rampant madness in Gaza

When Israel expelled Palestinians: What if it was San Diego and Tijuana instead?

Kim Sengupta: Claims that Israel is using illegal bombs won't go away

Gaza diary: To die with hope

Bowen diary: Arab anger

Ismail Haniyeh: My message to the West – Israel must stop the slaughter

Basim Naim: We believe in resistance, not revenge

In the US, Gaza is a different war

Seumas Milne: Israel and the west will pay a price for Gaza's bloodbath

Gaza conflict will shake the Arab world

Richard Silverstein: Hasbara spam alert

The United States Promotes Israeli Genocide Against the Palestinians

Ultimate aim remains unclear as government prepares for next move

Gaza crisis is having 'profoundly unhealthy' effect on UK Muslims, minister warns

'Soon we'll have nowhere left to run. Nowhere in Gaza is safe'

Paul Reynolds: Israel seeks airwave supremacy

Geoffrey Wheatcroft: How Israel gets away with murder

Ewa Jasiewicz: Limbs And Meat In The Street

Gareth Porter: Israel Rejected Hamas Ceasefire Offer in December

Peter Beaumont: Does the world have the appetite to prosecute Israel for war crimes in Gaza?

War of Choice: How Israel Manufactured the Gaza Escalation

Congressman Ron Paul: Weapons Killing People In Gaza, Made In USA

Robert Fisk: Wherever I go, I hear the same tired Middle East comparisons

John Pilger: Holocaust Denied, The lying silence of those who know

The Real Estate War in Gaza: The History and "Morals" of Ethnic Cleansing

Robert Fisk: Why do they hate the West so much, we will ask

Deborah Orr: There wouldn't have been Gaza rockets without the blockade

Michel Chossudovsky: The Invasion of Gaza: "Operation Cast Lead", Part of a Broader Israeli Military-Intelligence Agenda

This kind of war

Johann Hari: The true story behind this war is not the one Israel is telling

Do Israel pilots feel happy killing innocent women and children?

Finkelstein: Israel seeking Arab obeisance

Robert Fisk: The rotten state of Egypt is too powerless and corrupt to act

Israel’s Lie Machine Working Flat Out To Dodge “Killer” Question

Special spin body gets media on message, says Israel

Mark Steel: So what have the Palestinians got to complain about?

Robert Fisk: The self delusion that plagues both sides in this bloody conflict

Disinformation, secrecy and lies: How the Gaza offensive came about

Institute for Policy Studies: Gaza Crisis - Israel Rejected Hamas Diplomacy

Tikkun-A Jewish Magazine: Media Myths about Israel-Palestine Conflict and Thomas Friedman

IDF plans to use disproportionate force in next war

Gaza: a gas for Blair? Palestine has a major strategic resource in its natural gas reserves off Gaza

 

Selected News

Netanyahu says settlements can expand

Israel admits Tube advert map 'mistake'

Israel PM 'may back two states'

UN report on Israeli attacks in Gaza: 'It calls for reparations against Israel'

UN retreats after Israel hits out at Gaza report

UN report on Gaza incenses Israeli president

UN chief rejects further inquiry in Gaza

UN rebukes Israel over Gaza raids

UN report condemns Israel over Gaza war

UN probe finds Israel guilty of war crimes

Israel snubs UN Gaza war inquiry

Netanyahu calls for recognition

UN appoints Gaza war-crimes team

Israel FM rejects Annapolis deal

Israel accused of indiscriminate phosphorus use in Gaza

Israeli soldiers admit to deliberate killing of Gaza civilians

UN envoy: Gaza op seems to be war crime of greatest magnitude

Unconventional weapons used in Gaza, says Norwegian surgeon based in Gaza

Gaza desperately short of food after Israel destroys farmland

Israeli commanders in crosshairs for war crimes

Israel launches attacks in Gaza

'Phosphorus wounds' alarm Gazans

BBC crisis over refusal to broadcast Gaza appeal

Israel to grant legal aid to IDF troops accused of Gaza war crimes

New evidence of Gaza child deaths

The childhoods blighted by war

Israeli fighter jets roam over Gaza

Israel accused of "genocide" by UN

Gaza faces failed harvests after the bombardment by Israel

Gaza mother prays for daughter crippled by shell blast to die

Israel 'admits' using white phosphorus munitions

Belgian court petitioned to arrest Livni upon arrival in Brussels

Outcry over weapons used in Gaza

Israeli gunboat targets Gaza civilians

UN Says More than 50,000 Left Homeless in Gaza Following Israeli Attacks

Israel threatens Gazans with another attack

Protests over Gaza spread to eight English universities

New evidence of Gaza child deaths

IAEA to investigate Israeli uranium use

Gaza doctor's loss grips Israelis

UNRWA: Open Gaza crossings or brace for crisis

BBC scuppers TV fundraising appeal for Gaza victims

Gaza doctors struggle to treat deadly burns consistent with white phosphorus

Israel accused of war crimes

UN chief demands investigation into Israeli attack on Gaza headquarters

IAEA urged to probe Israeli ammo

Gazans return to mourn their dead and salvage their lives

Livni makes light of Gaza civilian casualty

Gaza rebuild 'to cost billions'

Gaza was demolished in three weeks. Rebuilding it will take years

Israeli students call Barak 'murderer'

Half of Gazan children need mental care

'Israel breaks the ceasefire again'

Scale of Gaza destruction emerges

Agencies rush aid to Gaza Strip

Israel fears wave of war crimes lawsuits over Gaza offensive

100 bodies pulled out from rubble in Gaza

Gazans confront shattered lives

Rafah, a landscape scarred by Israel's war

Norwegian doctor: Israel used new type of weapon in Gaza

'My daughters, they killed them': TV doctor shows Israelis horror of war

British Jews attacked for pro-Gaza solidarity

Palestinians find 95 bodies in rubble of battle-torn Gaza

'Israel has achieved nothing from this'

Palestinians fear ‘crazy’ parting raids

Ban Ki- moon urges Israeli withdrawal

Israel accused of war crimes over 12-hour assault on Gaza village

The Palestinians say: 'This is a war of extermination'

Peace 'a mirage' for Palestinians

Patients flee as flames engulf Gaza hospital: medics

Israeli-trained Gaza doctor loses three daughters and niece to IDF tank shell

Fresh evidence of Israeli phosphorus use in Gaza emerges

UN condemns shelling of Gaza school

UK Jewish Member of Parliament likens Israel to Nazis

Outrage as Israel bombs UN

British MP: Israel exploiting Holocaust

Video shows evidence of phosphorus bombs in Gaza

LSE students continue Gaza protest

Israel Bars Arab Parties From Election

Sarkozy: Gaza war useless bloodshed

D'Escoto: Israel breaching int'l law in Gaza

Israel's 'colonial tactics' decried

Minister calls for inquiry into attack on UN HQ in Gaza

Israel Navy ships turn back boat carrying Gaza humanitarian aid

Red Cross says Gaza humanitarian situation 'shocking'

Israelis shell hospitals and UN HQ

UN headquarters in Gaza hit by Israeli 'white phosphorus' shells

Israel hits media building in Gaza

Israel 'breaking law' with Gaza war

UN accuses Israel over phosphorus

Brown condemns Israeli attack as "indefensible"

Civilian casualties: Human rights groups accuse Israelis of war crimes

ICC prosecutor says has no jurisdiction in Gaza

Israeli human rights groups speak out as death toll passes 1,000

Israel may face UN court ruling on legality of Gaza conflict

Palestinian death toll in Gaza reaches 1,000

Gaza under cloud of white phosphorous

Israel 'stops Iranian aid ship'

Israelis 'shot at fleeing Gazans'

War crimes trials loom over Israel

Bolivia cuts Israel ties over Gaza

Demands grow for Gaza war crimes investigation

Israel disqualifies Arab parties

War in Gaza: Abbas accuses Israel of trying to 'wipe out' Palestinians

Gaza: UN Official Reports Horrific Hospital Scenes of Casualties

Israel bans Arab parties from coming election

Gaza now Israeli weapons testing lab?

Israel keeps pounding Gaza, hits children's hospital

Egypt opens airspace to Gaza aggressors

UN watchdog condemns war on Gaza

IDF reservist refuses to fight in Gaza over civilian deaths

UN human rights chief accuses Israel of war crimes

Willie Pete burns Gazan residents again

Bush ordered ceasefire retreat at UN

Massacre of a family seeking sanctuary

US Senate supports Israel's Gaza incursion

Red Cross finds starving children with 12 corpses in Gaza 'house of horrors'

UN levels war crimes warning at Israel

Gaza under fire: Children found next to dead mothers

Israelis admit militants not in UN school

Israel 'shelled Gaza civilians'

US Congressman Dennis Kucinich: 'US responsible for war on Gaza' 

UN: No fighters in targeted school

Saudis reject oil embargo on Israel 

UN aid agency suspends work after Gaza strike

Red Cross slams Israel over access to wounded

Red Cross: Israel leaves wounded to die 

Israel attacks UN convoy amid ceasefire 

Israel kills 215 kids, 98 women in Gaza 

Massacre of innocents as UN school is shelled

'As I ran I saw three of my children. All dead'

Israeli shelling kills dozens at UN school in Gaza

Unconventional weapons used against Gazans 

How Israel brought Gaza to the brink of humanitarian catastrophe

Depleted uranium found in Gaza victims 

Israeli troops invade Gaza - live

Livni: No crisis in Gaza Strip

Special spin body gets media on message, says Israel

UN official says Israel responsible for breaking truce with Gaza

Israel ordered to let international media into Gaza

Grieving Palestinians struggle on

UN official slams Israel 'crimes'

Gaza truce broken as Israeli raid kills six Hamas gunmen

Israeli minister warns of Palestinian 'holocaust'

Moderate Arab states feel popular anger

Mubarak: Egypt won't open Gaza crossing unless PA takes control

Israel expels UN rights envoy who compared Israelis to Nazis

 

The Gaza Story 

The Israeli 'Public Information Directorate' says that it is winning the 'War of Words' in the media by planting and repeating key messages in the world press, banning international journalists from entering Gaza and using modern propaganda methods to ensure that they are accepted as the unquestionable consensus in public opinion.

However, they have also admitted that when it comes to images, they cannot win the battle, as the images speak for themselves.

The IPRD has compiled some of the most the images from Gaza. These are the images the Israeli Government doesn't want you to see.