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Andrew Gilligan, Dispatches and "Islamic terrorism"
Andrew Gilligan, Dispatches and "Islamic terrorism"

Gilligan’s Island" was a sixties sitcom with an eponymous hero who was "bumbling, dim-witted [and] accident-prone". Andrew Gilligan had nothing to do with that programme, but one can’t help thinking about him as he seems to be everywhere at the moment; the London Evening Standard, the Daily Telegraph and, this week, Channel 4’s Dispatches.

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The Goldstone recommendations on Israel/Palestine have been adopted by the European Parliament today on March 10 2009. The resolution was adopted with 335 votes in favour, 287 against and 43 abstentions and the following recommendations were agreed on:

1. All parties should respect human rights
2. Independent and impartial investigations within the next five months should take place within the next five months
3. The Goldstone recommendations should be implemented and monitored
4. There should be no restriction of NGO activities and the authorities should stop refraining their activities

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Book Review

Israeli Exceptionalism

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Israeli Exceptionalism by M.Shahid AlamIsraeli Exceptionalism: The Destabilizing Logic of Zionism
By M. Shahid Alam

Hardback: 288 pages
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan (November 10, 2009)

ISBN-10: 0230614841
ISBN-13: 978-0230614840
RRP: £55.00

Review by Kathleen Christison

Zionism Laid Bare
The essential point of M. Shahid Alam’s book, Israeli Exceptionalism: The Destabilizing Logic of Zionism, comes clear upon opening the book to the inscription in the frontispiece. From the Persian poet and philosopher Rumi, the quote reads, “You have the light, but you have no humanity. Seek humanity, for that is the goal.” Alam, professor of economics at Northeastern University in Boston and a CounterPunch contributor, follows this with an explicit statement of his aims in the first paragraph of the preface. Asking and answering the obvious question, “Why is an economist writing a book on the geopolitics of Zionism?” he says that he “could have written a book about the economics of Zionism, the Israeli economy, or the economy of the West Bank and Gaza, but how would any of that have helped me to understand the cold logic and the deep passions that have driven Zionism?”

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My trip to the land of pride

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...A doctor in the hospitals of Gaza under fire

By Jihad Abdel-Alim Al-Farra

Paperback: 170 pages
Publisher: Danish Islamic Council, Copenhagen: 2009

Reviewed by Salah Issa (Quds Press)

This is an exceptional book, by any standards. Its words convey a profound human experience packed with emotional force, touching the conscience enough to make the reader cry again and again.

Published in Copenhagen, the author takes the reader initially to Scandinavia, where he lives and works as a surgeon in a hospital accident and emergency department. It was there during the long winter nights of January 2009 that the Israeli shelling of Gaza affected Dr. Al-Farra and moved him to the core. So much so that he realized that his sense of humanitarian and moral duty, professional commitment and religious beliefs, all made it imperative for him to go to the besieged Gaza Strip, even as it was being pummelled by the Israeli war machine.

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Palestine in Pieces: Graphic perspectives on the Israeli Occupation

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Palestine in pieces, book review by Zulaikha AbdullahPalestine in Pieces: Graphic perspectives on the Israeli Occupation
By Kathleen and Bill Christison

Paperback: 176 pages
Publisher:
Pluto Press (20 Jul 2009)
ISBN-10: 0745329292
ISBN-13: 978-0745329291
RRP: 14.99
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Review by Zulaikha Abdullah, Middle East Monitor, (MEMO), London

Palestine in pieces: Graphic perspectives on the Israeli Occupation is the most recent contribution by Kathleen and Bill Christison in their long standing effort to bring into the public domain the realities and horrors of the Palestinian people's plight as a colonised and oppressed nation living under the belligerent occupation of Israel.

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Bad News From Israel

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Bad News From Israel, by Greg Philo and Mike BerryBad News From Israel
By Greg Philo and Mike Berry

Glasgow University Media Group
Pluto Press, London, 2004
304 pp,
RRP: £9.99
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Review by Zulaikha Abdullah, Middle East Monitor, (MEMO), London

Bad News from Israel is an authoritative, eye-opening and highly readable empirical study by the world renowned Glasgow University Media Group. It tackles and supports long standing lamentations about modern news values and practices such as its failure to explain and analyze more fully; its use of official voices as sources of information; its strategic use of language and its often one sided account of events to name but a few. It highlights the tremendous impact of such failings by means of the current Israeli-Palestinian conflict; possibly the most intractable and intensely disputed conflict of modern times with boundless ramifications vis-à-vis international relations and the so called clash of civilizations.

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