Tag: Gaza’s Martyrdom

NOVANEWS Norman J. Finkelstein challenges media assumptions. [Staff Photo J. Adas] By Jane Adas Of late, some writers for The New York Times have noticed that conditions for people living in Gaza are challenging.  Columnist Thomas Friedman wrote in a Feb. 7 op-ed, “Due largely to Hamas’ malevolence and incompetence, but also some Israeli restrictions, Gaza has limited hours of electricity each day.” He does not mention that since 2006—more than a decade—Israel has sealed off Gaza with varying intensity and bombed its only power plant several times. The crisis as Friedman sees it is that Gaza’s untreated sewage goes into the Mediterranean and flows north, clogging Israel’s desalination plant in Ashkelon. For David M. Halbfinger, author of a Feb. 12 front-page article entitled “Gaza...