At least 1,300 Palestinians - among them some 220 children - were killed in Israel's 22-day assault of Gaza, and over to 5,400 were wounded. The IMEU presents a collection of background information and resources on this continuing crisis.

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Obama off to good start in Middle East
Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Obama's decision to appoint George Mitchell as the U.S. envoy to the region reflects a commitment to serious and impartial engagement that marks a welcome change from the bias and incoherence of the Bush administration's approach, writes Omar Dajani. Read more.

Mitchell's mission: saving the two-state solution
IMEU

US Middle East envoy George Mitchell has been tasked to listen and to help shore up the Israel-Hamas ceasefire during his week-long visit. But the signs point to a more ambitious agenda ahead: Saving the two-state solution, argues Nadia Hijab. Read more.

Fueling the cycle of hate
The Guardian (UK)

No matter how many times the Israeli government tries to blame Hamas for the latest Palestinian civilian deaths it simply cannot explain away the body count, especially that of the children, write Yigal Bronner and Neve Gordon. Read more.

It's 'all about Hamas'
Agence Global

Irrespective of whether the Palestinian people have good or bad leaders or none, there are some basic principles of international law that must be applied to this conflict, posits Nadia Hijab. Read more.

Time running out for a two-state solution?
60 Minutes

While negotiations have been going on for 15 years, hundreds of thousands of Jewish settlers have moved in to occupy the West Bank. Palestinians say they can't have a state with Israelis all over it, which the settlers say is precisely the idea, reports Bob Simon. Read more.

Breaking Gaza's will: Israel's enduring fantasy
The Palestine Chronicle

As long as there are no witnesses to the war crimes committed in Gaza, Israel is confident that it can sell a fabricated story to the world that it is, as always, the victim, writes Ramzy Baroud. Read more.

Israel's war and Barack Obama's inauguration
Bitterlemons.org

There is a need for an inclusive approach - one that will encourage dialogue and negotiations among all parties to conflicts and that will put an end to the present approach, which is based on exclusion and boycott, argues Ghassan Khatib. Read more.

Rafah, a landscape scarred by Israel's war
The Independent (UK)

Rafah, Gaza's southernmost city, probably suffered more than any other from the eight years of conflict before the start of Operation Cast Lead. But even on the short journey here, some of the new devastation was evident, writes Donald Macintyre. Read more.

Israel accused of war crimes over 12-hour assault on Pales- tinian village
The Guardian (UK)

Israel stands accused of perpetrating a series of war crimes during a sustained 12-hour assault on the village of Khuza'a, near Khan Younis in southern Gaza, last week in which 14 people died, reports The Guardian. Read more.

Will Israel's Gaza war spell the end of the Jewish state?
Agence Global

If Israel fails to destroy Hamas, is a two-state solution now possible? Both Palestinian and world public opinion is moving towards the one-state solution. And this is of course the end of the Zionist project, posits Immanuel Wallerstein. Read more.

When Israel expelled Palestinians
The Washington Times

Think about what would happen if San Diego expelled most of its Hispanic, African American, Asian American, and Native American population, about 48 percent of the total, and forcibly relocated them to Tijuana? asks Randall Kuhn. Read more.



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