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From the perspective of the dialogue of hate, Gaza and Hamas, Palestinians and Arabs, are all the same
Gideon Levy
Gideon Levy is a Haaretz columnist and a member of the newspaper's editorial board.
Levy joined Haaretz in 1982, and spent four years as the newspaper's deputy editor. He is the author of the weekly Twilight Zone feature, which covers the Israeli occupation in the West Bank and Gaza over the last 25 years, as well as the writer of political editorials for the newspaper.
Levy was the recipient of the Euro-Med Journalist Prize for 2008; the Leipzig Freedom Prize in 2001; the Israeli Journalists’ Union Prize in 1997; and The Association of Human Rights in Israel Award for 1996.
His new book, The Punishment of Gaza, has just been published by Verso Publishing House in London and New York.
Two Norwegian doctors who have been working at Shifa Hospital in Gaza offer harrowing eyewitness accounts of events there
More than 1,200 Gazans have been killed, about 80 percent of them civilians. But Israelis’ hands are clean and their consciences are quiet – so quiet you could cry
Israeli journalist Gideon Levy argues that Middle East peace will never come until the Israeli government drops its rejection of basic Palestinian rights
The man came right up close to me, to the point where I could smell his fetid breath. He took a wad…
The goal of Operation Protective Edge is to restore the calm; the means: killing civilians
Now we know: In the Jewish state, there is pity and humane feelings only for Jews, rights only for the Chosen People. The Jewish state is only for Jews
Human life only refers to ours; concern for it and its liberty only matters when it’s us. Only we are permitted to be our “Brother’s Keeper,” as the IDF is calling the operation to find the three kidnapped teens
Anyone who really fears for the future of the country needs to be in favor at this point of boycotting it economically.…
She was standing there screaming, the veins in her neck seeming about to burst. “What’s happened to you − have all of…