Media Monitoring: I SRAELI C RACKDOWN ON
H AMAS IN W EST B ANK
... and thus threatening the fragile truce in Gaza (1948 - present)

 

 

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US NEWS ARTICLES & OPINION PIECES

  • Boston Globe: Israeli crackdown hits Hamas services in West Bank, by Griffe Witte (20 July 2008).
    This article describes the Israeli raids on Hamas facilities and members in the West Bank, which has caused great resentment both in the West Bank and in Gaza. This includes anger from Fatah because many of the raids take place in Nablus which Israel was supposed to have turned over to the PA, and thus the raids undermine the authority of the PA.

  • Washington Post: Unease Over West Bank Raids - Israeli Crackdown on Charities Problematic for Palestinian Authority, by Griff Witte (18 July 2008).
    This article describes the Israeli crackdown on Hamas social services and charities in the West Bank, which is largely backfiring bringing more support to Hamas and making Fatah look powerless because it cannot protect these vital services or replace them. The crackdown included a shopping mall reportedly owned by Hamas affiliates, but whose merchants were unaffiliated.

  • Washington Post: Around the World: THE MIDDLE EAST: Police Shot in Jerusalem - Hezbollah Sends Report (13 July 2008).
    This article describes a shooting incident in Jerusalem where a Palestinian shot two Israeli policemen and then escaped, and then describes a rocket attack from Gaza, and then describes a report about a missing airman sent to Israel by Hezbollah.

  • Christian Science Monitor: Palestinians: Let us tame wild Jenin, by Ilene R. Prusher (11 July 2008).
    This article describes how Israeli raids have undermined Abbas's PA asserting its authority in line with the demands on the PA from the peace process, thus undermining the peace process.

  • Chicago Tribune: Israel shuts down Nablus shopping mall (9 July 2008).
    "NABLUS — Israeli troops stormed the shopping mall in this city Tuesday and ordered it to close, saying the popular facility is linked to the militant Hamas. The move was the latest in a widening crackdown on the Islamic group in the West Bank, even as Israel observes a cease-fire with the Hamas regime in the Gaza Strip. Israel kept a vital Gaza cargo crossing open, though Palestinians fired three mortar shells at Israel on Tuesday, violating a 3-week-old truce."

  • Chicago Tribune: Rockets fly again as Gaza truce broken - Barrage sparked by Israeli raid in West Bank,
    Los Angeles Times: Israel shuts Gaza crossings after militants violate truce,
    both articles by Joel Greenberg (25 June 2008).
    Both of these articles describe the struggle over the Gaza truce between Gaza Palestinian groups and Israel. But the articles are clearly biased toward Israel in that they only thoroughly describes the Palestinian violations (rocket attacks), attributes them only to retaliation for Israeli actions in West Bank (which the truce does not cover), and do not describe the Israeli border closure as itself a violation (because the truce terms do not allow Israel to halt border openings in response to violations) and do not describe at all the Israeli shootings of Palestinian Gaza civilians (which is clearly a truce violation).

  • Miami Herald: Militants' rockets threaten Gaza cease-fire, by Dion Nissenbaum (25 June 2008).
    This article describes the struggle over the Gaza truce between Gaza Palestinian groups and Israel. But the article is clearly biased toward Israel in that it only thoroughly describes the Palestinian violations (rocket attacks), attributes them only to retaliation for Israeli actions in West Bank (which the truce does not cover), and does not describe the Israeli border closure as itself a violation (because the truce terms do not allow Israel to halt border openings in response to violations) and also does not describe at all the Israeli shootings of Palestinian Gaza civilians (which is clearly a truce violation).

  • Washington Post: Gazan Rockets Threaten Truce: Islamic Jihad Cites Israeli Operation in West Bank, by Griff Witte and Samuel Sockol (25 June 2008).
    This article describes the struggle over the Gaza truce between Gaza Palestinian groups and Israel. But the article is clearly biased toward Israel in that it only thoroughly describes the Palestinian violations (rocket attacks), attributes them only to retaliation for Israeli actions in West Bank (which the truce does not cover), and does not describe the Israeli border closure as itself a violation (because the truce terms do not allow Israel to halt border openings in response to violations) and Israeli shootings of Palestinian Gaza civilians (which is clearly a truce violation).

  • Boston Globe: Israeli crackdown hits Hamas services in West Bank, by Griffe Witte (20 July 2008).
    This article describes the Israeli raids on Hamas facilities and members in the West Bank, which has caused great resentment both in the West Bank and in Gaza. This includes anger from Fatah because many of the raids take place in Nablus which Israel was supposed to have turned over to the PA, and thus the raids undermine the authority of the PA.

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