He contradicts himself. And did his 2022 memoir embolden Hamas?
Tag: Gaza
How Hamas deterred Netanyahu
The forgotten history of toppling Hamas.
The Nazi case for Hamas
A false equivalence has Nazi precedents.
Gaza Q&A: Palestinians answer
"I don't mind if Gazans continue producing babies, but they will have to move somewhere else." Palestinians speak.
WCFIA at Harvard: accusations are baseless
Weatherhead Center directors: Accusations against Martin Kramer are "baseless," and his critics are clueless about academic freedom.
Smear intifada
Electronic Intifada, a death-to-Israel website run by Ali Abunimah, says that in my Herzliya Conference speech, which I posted two weeks ago, I "called for 'the West' to take measures to curb the births of Palestinians, a proposal that appears to meet the international legal definition of a call for genocide." According to the site, …
Between Goldstone and Gaza, what’s one more zero?
I've been reading through the part of the Goldstone Report treating the economic impact of Operation Cast Lead—a part that hasn't gotten much attention. It's largely a crib of a March 2009 report compiled by the Palestinian Federation of Industries, whose deputy general-secretary, Amr Hamad, was interviewed three separate times by the mission. The mission …
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Gaza errors (or lies)
Henry Siegman, who must spend every waking hour hating Israel, has a piece in the London Review of Books, which is never complete without an Israel-bashing tirade. This one is called simply "Israel's Lies." Siegman spends a lot of time faulting Israel for the breakdown of the previous six-month cease-fire with Hamas, reached through Egyptian …
Did Hamas really win in Gaza?
Martin Kramer posted this comment in the thread "Did Hamas Really Win in Gaza?" at Middle East Strategy at Harvard (MESH). One way to approach this question is to ask whether Hamas has achieved the objectives for which it escalated the crisis, by its refusal to extend the cease-fire. Musa Abu Marzuq, number two in …
A plan for surrender (to Hamas)
Israeli Yossi Alpher today publishes a piece in the International Herald Tribune, under the headline "Stop Starving the Gazans." Alpher claims that the economic sanctions imposed on Gaza after the Hamas power grab in mid-2007 (what he calls "the economic-warfare strategy") have failed totally; indeed, they have "produced no political or strategic benefit." "There is …
Shrinking Gaza
Last week, I was listening to a podcast of an interview with Professor Rashid Khalidi on a Chicago public radio station. I had downloaded it in great anticipation, and it got off to a great start. Khalidi, a Palestinian-American, is the Edward Said Professor at Columbia, editor of the Journal of Palestine Studies, author of a …
Israel’s Gaza strategy
In the fog of war, it isn't just the truth that falls casualty. So does common sense. Quite a few pundits seem to think that Israel lacks a strategy in Gaza. But unlike the Lebanon war of 2006, this war has been planned in advance, and every stage has been war-gamed. Here is my read …
Gaza buried in flour
To believe these authors, each Gazan consumes almost half a ton of flour per day.
When I last saw Gaza
The Israeli "disengagement" from Gaza stirs my memory of my only visit to the place. It was twenty-two years ago, before the words intifada, Hamas, and "Oslo" had entered the Israeli-Palestinian lexicon. I had taken up my appointment at Tel Aviv University a couple of years earlier, and we had a treat that semester: the …
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