Informed Comment daily updates (11/12/2023)

 

A Tale of Two Sets of Dead Babies: The Preemies of Gaza and Imaginary Beheadings Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Israel’s repeated shelling in the vicinity of hospitals and clinics in Gaza has led 20 of 38 hospitals to close their doors to patients, since they lacked the electricity, medicine and functioning equipment they needed to treat patients. The Israeli government’s cut-off of electricity has killed premature babies in incubators, […]

Gaza: Where should the Birds fly after the Last Sky? By Ahmad Rayees | – Where should the birds fly after the last sky? Where should we go after the last sky?  ( Middle East Monitor) – In the haunting verses of Mahmoud Darwish‘s poetry, the tragic tale of Gaza unfolds—a narrative of shattered hopes, enduring resistance and the stark reality of life under Israeli […]

Victims of War are more than just a Statistic By Ibrahim Al-Marashi | ( San Francisco Chronicle ) – If someone had asked the students at my Monterey high school which one of us would be the first to go to Iraq, everyone would have probably said me. After all, my parents were the ones who emigrated from Iraq in the 1970s to escape […]

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