The day after one of the bloodiest days in Gaza’s history was comparatively calm. That’s the most optimistic way of comparing the 62 Palestinians murdered yesterday by Israel’s Occupation Forces with the 11 killed today. Apparently that’s what the international community had in mind when it asked Israel to please, if you don’t mind, make your violence a bit more proportional with that of the Palestinian resistance fighters.
You can’t expect much from the world when the UN Secretary General, Ban Ki-Moon, begins his address of Israel’s crazed slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza by condemning Palestinian violence against the occupation, and then equating the two, so that the live of the one Israeli killed by Palestinians on Wednesday equals the 113 Palestinians killed by Israel since that day.
I don’t want to make life too difficult for Israel’s apologists in the mass media, but justifying the massacre or implying that this is all a reaction by Israel to the death of one Israeli is grossly inaccurate. 6 Palestinians in Gaza and one in the West Bank had been killed by the Israeli army that morning, before Palestinian fighters launched several home-made projectiles at Israel in retaliation.
As if the gruesome Palestinian death toll would have been any more acceptable had events occurred in any other order.
Israel is deliberately and unapologetically targeting civilian homes and infrastructure. Sam’an Attalah, a family friend, was victim to this disgraceful disregard for civilian life when Israeli warplanes attacked his family home with 3 missiles. 7 members of his family, including his parents, his wife and daughter, his sister and a nephew were murdered in the attack.
The home of Khalil Ahel was another to be attacked by the warplanes. What makes this specific attack even more heinous is the fact that Khalil was murdered three days ago by the Israeli army. His home was full of mourners and people paying respect to his memory.
Although the attacks have hit every part of Gaza, most of Israel’s terrorism is still targeting Jabalya for the third day in a row. Loay Abed Rabbo, 20, Mahmoud Bahhar, 14, and Yousef Mohammad Abu Wardeh, 50, were three victims of Israeli snipers killed around the town. The terror is universal, and with 50% of Gaza’s population under the age of 18, the psychological damage being inflicted on an entire generation is a heinous crime in of itself.
The war planes do not leave the sky, the sea to the west has been blockaded by the Israeli navy for years now, and tanks and artillery are being massed and sometimes enter from the north, east and south of the Strip. Israeli special forces are entering homes in border areas, locking up entire families in a single room and taking position on the rooftops. Often the soldiers stay for days on end, with the families forced to eat, sleep and defecate in that one room during that time.
It really is a sad day for humanity when the death of 11 people at the hands of their occupiers is viewed with relief that the number wasn’t six times that.
In the aftermath of yesterday’s insanity, Gaza’s medical services were warning of an imminent catastrophe. Thankfully (and it never stops sounding strange to be thankful for anything in the midst of all this), Egypt allowed many of the wounded to enter its territory for medical attention, and allowed some medical supplies to enter. The situation is still dire, however. Get the truth out about what is happening in Gaza. As 1.5 million people attempt to sleep again tonight in darkness, without power, without adequate food, without medication, without the freedom to escape this prison, and with a powerful, ruthless military attacking them indiscriminately, it is the least you can do.
Sunday, March 02, 2008
Shoah Watch: The fifth day
Saturday, March 01, 2008
Shoah Watch: Black Saturday
Saturday, March 1st, 2008. Sixty two Palestinians are massacred in an insane Israeli slaughter committed against the besieged people of the Gaza Strip. From the early hours of the morning, the Israeli airforce conducted dozens upon dozens of airstrikes against civilian homes, police stations, civilians in the streets and a mosque.
The massacre was concentrated around Jabalya and the village of Izbet Abed Rabbo. TV footage clearly showed the Israeli army pounding civilian homes in and around the area. Children, women and the elderly were not spared. Ambulances were targeted by Israeli snipers and machine guns, as were journalists and the media.
Its past midnight here, but the attacks are ceaseless. I just want to talk about Saturday for now, so the killing going on now will be chronicled tomorrow as part of the Sunday chapter of this heinous crime.
Its just hard to put into words what happened in Gaza today. There can be no justification whatsoever. Israel promised a holocaust (excuse me, a mere disaster) and it didn’t waste time in delivering. I don’t understand how the lives of a certain group of people can mean so much less than another group because of race, or ethnicity, or religion. Sixty two Palestinians in 24 hours. Amongst them were children, including Samah and Sana, two teenage sisters murdered by an Israeli missile that was fired into their family home.
Also amongst the dead: a 45 year old man who was shot by an Israeli sniper as he stood on his doorstep, and his 19 year old son, who was killed by an Israeli rocket as he came to his father’s rescue. The Darduna family, which lost 3 of its young sons as they were playing soccer only yesterday, lost yet another member of the family when more Israeli missiles hit the family home.
What’s hardest to comprehend is the size of the slaughter. How can over 60 people be murdered is such a cold, murderous manner in one of the most high profile conflict regions on earth? Why have there not been any moves, from any official body, to denounce the massacre? The Palestinian people have been under illegal Israeli occupation and a brutal military rule for decades-so why is Israel’s butchering of Palestinians accepted as necessary self-defense, while Palestinian resistance to this brutality is denounced as abhorrent?
Why is it that in so many parts of the world, the death of one Israeli on Wednesday continues to receive equal or greater media coverage than the death of over 90 Palestinians since then? Is that really the equation, that 1 Israeli life is far more important than that of 90 Palestinians?
Talking to relatives in the Gaza, the situation is beyond terrifying. The airforce has begun attacking Khan Younis and Rafah in the south, as ground forces have moved several kilometers deep into the north of the Strip. Any moving car is liable to be hit with an airstrike without warning. A mosque in Rafah was bombed, killing three men, and two policemen walking home from duty were bombed in the street.
The medical services are warning of an imminent catastrophe. Gaza’s main hospital, Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City, says that it cannot take in any more wounded. Mothers that have recently given birth have been sent home, as have dialysis patients, to make room for makeshift surgery rooms and intensive care units. The Strip is close to running out of anesthesia, making a disturbing situation even more gruesome as the majority of the wounded come in with missing limbs, severe burns and gaping wounds. The hospitals are close to running out of the diesel they need to power the emergency generators that are so necessary during these times of continuous power cuts, and with 50% of Gaza’s ambulance fleet parked due to a lack of fuel, there are official warnings that the fuel available to the other 50% will not last more than two days.
The two hospitals that are struggling the most are Al-Shifa in Gaza City and Kamal Udwan Hospital in the northern Gaza Strip, the latter of which had 21 dead bodies brought in today alone. There is a shortage of sheets to cover and wrap the dead in, so hospital bed sheets, already scarce, are being used for the task. One Al-Shifa doctor has warned that if urgent medical supplies do not get through soon, the hospital will be unable to save many of the wounded, and that many of the over 200 wounded today will be buried in mass graves.
The extreme nature of the medical situation has many on the ground believing that the border with Egypt may well be breached again soon, if only to transfer the wounded to Egyptian hospitals.
With Israeli TV announcing yesterday that this is part of a four step plan designed by the Israeli government to overthrow Hamas in Gaza, it seems like what happened today is the beginning of an extremely bloody period in Gaza’s history.
As the governments of the world watch in silence, in apathy, or actively conspire against the people of Gaza, we all need to make every effort towards shedding light on the inhuman brutality of Israel’s merciless attacks on Gaza.
God be with them.
Shoah Watch: Account from Gaza
This was sent from Gaza. The sender adds, at the time of sending, "last total in last hour is 45 killed in less than 24 hours within whole GS with jaballayah the worst hit."The term here could be ‘chaos’ but the word I could also choose is ‘organized destruction’ from the Israeli side. Over the previous 48 hours 35 killed and around 75 injured. Last night to now in one hospital in Jabbalayeh a further 28 killed including 3 women and 10 under 16 the youngest being one week old. Less than 10% would be classed as ‘fighters’ the majority are civilians with varying injuries. Those with head and chest wounds from blast and shrapnel are, if they survive, among the seriously injured often transferred into Shifa Hospital from the peripheral smaller hospitals. (The total injured at this one hospital being 50 cases in last 24 hours). We are told 44 candlescumhomemade rockets, incapable of being aimed specifically, into Israel with 10 injured in Israel in the same time.
While returning from Jabalyyeh where most of the casualities are from today, a report of a missile in Rafah in the far south. Escalation is another word to use here. In response to one recent death on the Israeli side, regrettable though any death is, the retaliation within primarily civilian residential areas being experienced is out of any proportion. At present it is a common sight to see people looking into the sky at the circling drones that are said to be both visual ‘spotters’ and capable of attack, with accompanying F16 and helicopters with flares. Audibly, over the last 24 hours have been regular sounds of the drone followed by an explosion. A little later the sound of the sirens of the overworked ambulances using precious petrol resources to respond to distress calls. Hospitals have been emptied of routine cases and other hospitals normally elective have been opened for emergencies as required in a major disaster response.
Again most of the injured are from within houses demolished by the missiles. One man has lost both lower limbs with an injury to one shoulder whilst feeding his goats. His father requests his photograph is sent to US as the chances, when he is ready for getting out for appropriate prosthetic limb fitting, are slim to nil at present and getting any kind of prosthesis in, let alone fitted, is costly. He is 20 years old with a new wife and baby on the way. Whilst he may well become mobile again on prostheses the way ahead for him will be long and difficult to regain any degree of independence in any society let alone one that is being systematically destroyed. He is one of many just in these last few days.
Underlying all these tragedies is the fact that such sophisticated military destruction is being supported by US and Europe with silence from the rest of the world, there is little condemnation for the state terrorism or continuing collective punishment with the closure.
(Tarboush Tip: Laila)
NYTimes Finally Admits that the Nakba was a Holocaust
Following yesterday's statement by Israeli Deputy Minister Matan Vilnai in which he threatened the Palestinians with a "shoah" (Holocaust, in Hebrew), the New York Times has finally come to its senses! You see, the New York Times translated the word "shoah" (Holocaust) into "catastrophe" despite the fact that the word "catastrophe" already exists in Hebrew (and it is not "shoah", it is "catastrophe"). Using this logic, the Nakba (in Arabic "catastrophe") marking Israel's systematic ethnic cleansing of Palestine must therefore translate into a "shoah" in Hebrew! So Israel really did commit genocide against the Palestinians. Thanks New York Times for being the first major media outlet to make the link!
Tarboush tip for cartoon: Nimr
Shoah Watch: It begins in Jabalya
One day after promising to wage a Holocaust against the people of Gaza, Israel and its terrorist ‘Defense’ establishment has begun to make good on its promise. Saturday, March 1st, 2008: It is 2pm local time here, and Israeli attacks have resulted in the murder of 32 Palestinians since the day began, including a 2 day old baby, and over 100 injured.
The massacre is currently concentrated in the northern Gaza Strip, particularly Jabalya. So far, six civilian homes have been hit directly with targeted Israeli missiles. The entire area has had electricity and water supplies completely cut off. The occupation army is firing nonstop at civilian areas, so that those in their homes cannot escape to safety. 50% of Gaza’s ambulances are inoperable because of a lack of fuel, and the remaining 50% are finding it almost impossible to reach the dead and wounded under the army’s fire.
So to recap: Israel-Israel-promises the people of Gaza that it will subject them to a Holocaust. Within 24 hours, it has murdered 32 men, women and children, by far the vast majority of whom were civilians in their homes. It fires at the ambulances attempting to save the wounded, cuts off water and electricity from the targeted areas, and refuses to allow civilians to escape to safety.
The massacre is ongoing. God help them.
UPDATE: It's now just past 5pm. The death toll is now at 38. Injured are over 120. East Jabalya was hit with about 7 helicopter missiles in a 5 minute span about 45 minutes ago. An F-16 airstrike just hit the center of Jabalya.
UPDATE: It has just passed 9:20pm local time. The number of dead has now reached 56. I'll leave you to ponder that fact for yourselves.
Friday, February 29, 2008
Shoah Watch: Israel threatens Gaza with a Holocaust
As Israel threatens Gaza with 'a bigger Holocaust', here are some images of the apparently smaller sized one going on right now.
Family members react after seeing the charred, destroyed body of one of the Darduna boys, who were murdered while playing soccer in a field on the outskirts of Jabalya.
Another one of the Darduna boys after the Israeli airforce decided that the children of Gaza have no right to play soccer.
Nasser Al-Bura'i holds his 6 month old son, Mohammad, after the infant was killed in another Israeli airstrike.
Nasser holds Mohammad as the baby's funeral procession goes through the streets of Gaza.
A mother attempts to comfort her son after he was injured in another airstrike. 70% of those killed and injured in the last 3 days have been chidlren.
An elderly man is helped out of the wreckage of a building hit by an Israeli F-16 fighter jet missile. The building housed the headquarters of the Palestinian Workers Union.
The bodies of three Palestinian fighters after they were killed by one of over 30 airstrikes conducted by the Israeli Occupation Forces all over the Gaza Strip in the last three days.
Friday, February 01, 2008
Tony Judt on Evil
Tony Judt, the NYU academic, wrote a thought-provoking essay on Europe's struggle to conceptualize evil in the post-war era, and the role of the Holocaust and Anti-Semitism in the public sphere.
He argues that by presenting the Nazis' extermination of the Jews as a "singular crime" and the ultimate case of evil manifest, it has distorted discourse about evil -- from the confused and "self-serving abuse" of the "axis of evil" rhetoric, to the wrongful characterization of strong criticism of Israel as anti-Semitism.
As agreeable as I am towards Judt's arguments, I would have hoped for more evidence. Most of it was anecdotal, especially when he makes the point that people question the unique remembrance of the Holocaust. For example, some Eastern Europeans feel as though their mass suffering has been downplayed. Sometimes polemics are okay without evidence especially if they are just to stimulate debate or if they resonate with enough readers.
I tend to have doubt about the use of the word "evil." I'm not sure if it is a useful term since it is so total and grandiose, which is why it is so often used in religious discourse. But I would say that if people do use it to refer to events and personalities past, it certainly can apply to those present.
I prefer nuanced terminology since even "evil" dictators are probably angels to some people, i.e. their children or supporters, or may suffer from severe neurological or psychological problems.
Sunday, September 23, 2007
Here Comes The President...To Columbia University Tomorrow
The big day is upon us.
This event has gotten the kind of public fanfare, media coverage, sidewalk chatter, waiting line gossip, and impassioned outrage one would expect of a celebrity wedding.
I am of course talking about Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov and Bingu wa Mutharika's highly anticipated speeches at Columbia University tomorrow.
Actually, even though the Presidents of Turkmenistan and The Republic of Malawi will be gracing the lecture halls of one of the nation's most presitigious institutions of higher learning, media blitz is likely to be focused on another President with a name Americans will have trouble pronouncing: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, President of the Islamic State of Iran.
Despite the news vans, cadre of national and international reporters, protesters expected to hit the streets and cobble-stoned walking paths of Morningside Heights tomorrow, you can expect one person not to step foot on 114th and Broadway, the Mayor of City of New York. "New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg," according to a Reuters story carried by Haartz, " said Friday that the city's Columbia University was free to invite Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to speak, but "personally, I wouldn't go to listen to him - I don't care about what he says."
But public expressions of anti-Ahmadinejad-ness (the funniest dash-created word in the English language to say. Go ahead-try it!) are not confined to the realm of politics.
The headline on the front cover of the New York daily newspaper publication The Daily News lividly threatened Mr. Ahmadinejad, "If you even think of setting one foot in Ground Zero, you can...Go To Hell," and going as far to assert that "All of Manhattan south of Canal St. must be forbidden to him by the NYPD."
I love the reckless conflation that seeks to confound any of the necessary distinctions between Al Qaeda hijackers and the state of Iran. Are they really going to try to relate the two?
Then again, the majority of Americans still seemed to believe the specious connection between the B'ath-run secular state of Iraq and Afghanistan-based, American-trained, Saudi Muslims.
Surprisingly, Columbia stands resolute against public pressure and harassment to cancel the event. In a twist of irony, the Ivy League, embroiled in a Khaleeji summer hot debate over Barnard faculty member Nadia Abu El-Hajj's tenure bid, one under rigorous contestion for the scholar's writing of a book critical of Israel's archeological to exist, defended it's decision to allow the President of Iran to speak citing the school's commitment to promoting "free speech."
SIPA's (Columbia University's graduate School of International and Public Affairs) Dean, , the ones responsible for sponsoring the sold-out event.
The mission of the University is to educate citizens, train professionals, and foster research of the highest quality. This mission can only be served by providing students and faculty with untrammeled access to a diversity of views and opinions in an environment where every statement can be challenged
and debated freely.
The following is a statement posted on Columbia's webiste explaining the reason for endorsing the SIPA-sponsored event:
Statement Regarding Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s Talk at Columbia University’s World Leaders Forum
On Monday, September 24th, 2007 Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will speak and participate in a question and answer session with university faculty and students at Columbia University’s World Leaders Forum. His appearance is sponsored by Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs, which is initiating a year-long series of lectures and events on thirty years of the Islamic Republic of Iran. The SIPA lecture series will include academic experts as well as former officials and critics of the Islamic Republic.
This opportunity for faculty and students to engage the President of Iran came about after Ambassador Mohammad Khazaee at the Iranian Mission to the United Nations initiated contact with Columbia through a member of the faculty, Richard Bulliet, who is a specialist on Iran. The event will be open only to university students, faculty and staff with Columbia University identification and invited guests.
President Bollinger emphasized that such World Leaders Forum events must allow ample time for students and faculty to pose questions that challenge the views expressed by the speakers. John H. Coatsworth, Dean of the School of International and Public Affairs, confirmed that the Iranian president had agreed to this format. Dean Coatsworth will moderate the question and answer period following Ahmadinejad’s speech.
President Bollinger will introduce the event by challenging President Ahmadinejad on a number of his controversial statements and his government’s policies, including his denial of the Holocaust and his call for the destruction of the State of Israel. The US government has accused Ahmadinejad’s government of supporting terrorism and developing nuclear weapons capacity. Human rights groups have charged Iran with suppressing dissent and women’s rights. Columbia students and faculty will themselves
have an opportunity to question Iran’s leader on these and other issues.
Dean Coatsworth stated that “Opportunities to hear, challenge, and learn from controversial speakers of different views are central to the education and training of students for citizenship in a shrinking and still dangerous world. This is especially true for SIPA students, many of whose careers will require them to confront human rights and security issues throughout the globe.”
Look for photos of protestors, and if I'm lucky, of the blushing President to hit KABOBfest before US Weekly or Star Magazine get a chance to send the digitals to their printers!
[Tarboush Tip: Nadeem]
Tuesday, August 07, 2007
Israel Abolishes Apartheid!!!
Yeaaah, that’s as likely as Fayyad actually getting the opportunity to “make it up to” a certain big bootied Latina blogger. (Aim lower habeeby - start with Programmer Craig and work your way up the food chain).
Or, better yet, serve a bit of that spicy KABOB to Israeli Transportation Minister Shaul Mofaz – who announced today that 'security' personnel at Ben Gurion International Airport will no longer mark the luggage belonging to non-Jews with colored tags – “in order to spare these passengers embarrassment,” says Ha’aretz (censored).
WOOHOO! THERE IS A G-D AFTER ALL!!!
Instead, Mofaz explained, the luggage of non-Jewish passengers will be stamped with the same color sticker as the Jewish passengers, only with a different number. In the past, the color of the sticker on the passenger's luggage would indicate to airport security personnel the level of security check they must administer.Hmmm. People marked with numbers so that a blood-thirsty and power-hungry military state can differentiate between an ethnic group deemed ‘superior’ and another deemed ‘subhuman’… … sounds awfully FUCKING familiar!!
Though the colored stickers have been discontinued since the beginning of August, the luggage belonging to Arab passengers still undergoes a more thorough security check than that of Jews. The Arabs' luggage is sent to an X-ray scanner with higher resolution.It’s actually a really cool process. Not only do we get our skid-marked pantaloons flung out all over the place for everyone to see, we also get to strip down to our knickers and have random men cup our balls! (You can relate, can’t ya Roy?)
Oh – and let’s not forget about the part where we get separated from our families, locked in private rooms, and interrogated for hours on end with the same old redundant questions – like, “Hey, I’m from Philly too! What high school did ya go to?”
According to Transportation Ministry spokesman Avner Ovadia, "the institution of uniformly colored stickers for all passengers aims to prevent a sense of discrimination among various sectors."POP QUIZ HOT SHOT – What in bloody hell does that mean?
a) If a Palestinian is being discriminated against, but is too stupid to realize it – then, technically, “discrimination” doesn’t exist.I dunno. Maybe I’m being too much of a pessimist. After all, it took Israel an entire “public committee” (headed by Jim Crowzinsky of course) to come up with this sincere stroke of genius.
- OR -
b) As long as “various [non-Palestinian] sectors” don’t notice our discriminatory policies – then, technically, "discrimination" doesn’t exist.
Too bad many Arabs don’t see it that way…
[A]n Arab resident of Nazareth [Hosni abu-Sherlock] who frequently flies out of Ben Gurion airport said he had no trouble at all identifying the marked luggage. "This is the exact same system, with a slight change in stickers. In the past, an Arab passenger would receive a red sticker, and now the Arab passenger receives a sticker with the number 5 on it," the man explained.And that, my friends, is reason 1,948 why I love Israel… and all its Zionut friends.
Wednesday, July 11, 2007
Irony, please meet my friend the holocaust exhibit
Amisrael has been sponsoring a traveling holocaust exhibit in Guatemala which just arrived in Quetzaltenango two days ago. The exhibit begins with Hitler and a short analysis on Nazi propaganda and discourse, murderous images of the concentration camps, the unspeakable horrors of the genocide, and finally concludes with the creation and importance of the state of Israel...
...with no mention of the indigenous population said state is now attempting to eliminate.
But I suppose it makes perfect sense. Such talk might hit a little too close to home here in Guatemala, a state currently recovering from a 36-year genocidal war against an indigenous population the U.S.- and Israeli-backed government attempted to eliminate.
The holocaust exhibit's last panel states that such an exhibit needs to exist because,
"historical memory demands that we eliminate any type of intolerance in existence... so that atrocities like these are never repeated in human society, at any scale."
I suppose that as long as Palestinians are not considered to be humans of the human kind, and until Israel's atrocities toward, and intolerance of, Palestine's indigenous population is mentioned on this last panel, we can be certain that our friends Irony and Holocaust Exhibits shall never be introduced.
Amisrael's latest production comes only months after the Plaza Israel it erected last year in Quetzaltenango was vandalized one night. On the night of Valentines Day, animal organs were left near the plaza's imposing star, and the perpetrators tagged up the place with red spray paint, saying the following:
"Murderers, Occupiers, Child-killers"
"Infidels, Occupiers"
"Blood on your hands"
The next morning, the police received a phone call reporting the incident, apparently from the type of person whose first thought is always the conspiratory "blood libel" in situations like these. This Sherlock told the police that someone had left a fetus at the foot of the star. Turns out, it was animal's heart, a piece of lung and some trachea...
No Matzoh balls were reported at the scene.
This crime will never be solved. This is Guatemala. Still, I keep asking around for thoughts although no one really knows who did it. So far, mine is the best theory -- a strapping male successfully wooing a young anarchist's heart on Valentines Day...
:o) :o) :o)
I mean, they left a heart there and everything.
Other theories mostly linger around the default racism against Jews, per Amisrael's own explanation. When I point out to folks that maybe it was a political act against the Israeli government (it was Plaza Israel, after all and not Plaza Jew), I keep being met with blank stares that seem to ask, "Aren't they the same thing?"
"Nooooooo… Israel and Jews are not automatically the same thing and that's the problem with having nation-states in the first place, especially when they're based on race and ethnicity!!! Everything the government does gets blamed on innocent people of that race even if they have nothing to do with anything, y estos cabrones politicos solo se representan a ellos mismos y sus mendigos amigos, pero la gente es la que sufre and by the way, since when has the term "occupier" been a racial epithet? Has Israel really gotten Jewish people that far into this mess?"
I'll begin to explain this and once in a while hit them in a sensitive spot by outlining Israel's connections to the 36-year Civil War and how Israel was the genocidal Guatemalan government's #1 arms dealer after Carter stopped sending weapons over in the late 70s, and how Israelis were hired for counter-insurgency advice on how to kill their people.*
And then they're like, "Aw, hell nah... what?!"
And I'm like, "Yes, have a seat. Let's chat. Believe it or not, it's not just the gringos who suck ass."
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*FURTHER READING (although I know for some of you the length of this post was already too much reading):
Aruri, Naseer (Jan 23, 2007) "Israel's friends in high places" Morning Star, People's Press Printing Society Ltd
Beit-Hallahmi, Benjamin "The Israeli Connection: Who Israel Arms and Why"
Bahbah, Bishara and Linda Butler (1986) "Israel and Latin America: The Military Connection"
Cockburn, Andrew and Leslie Cockburn (1992)"Dangerous Liaison: The Inside Story of the U.S.-Israeli Covert Relationship"
Fernández, Damian J. (1988) "Central America and the Middle East: The Internationalization of the Crises"
Howard, Esther (1983). "Israel: The Sorcerer's Apprentice" MERIP Reports, No. 112, The Arms Race in the Middle East. (Feb., 1983), pp. 16-25+30.
Hunter, Jane (1987) "Israeli Foreign Policy: South Africa and Central America"
Jamail, Milton and Gutierrez, Margo (1986) "Israel in Central America: Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador, Costa Rica" MERIP Middle East Report, No. 140, Terrorism and Intervention. (May - Jun., 1986), pp. 26-30+44-45+47.
Jamail, Milton and Margo Gutierrez "It's No Secret: Israel's Military Involvement in Central America"
Klieman, Aaron S. (1985) "Israel's Global Reach: Arms Sales as Diplomacy"
Lofving, Staffan (2004) "Paramilitaries of Empire: Guatemala, Colombia, and Israel" Social Analysis Vol 48 Issue 1.
Rubenberg, Cheryl A. (1986 and sounds like a self-hating Jew to me!!!). "Israel and Guatemala: Arms, Advice and Counterinsurgency" MERIP Middle East Report, No. 140, Terrorism and Intervention. (May - Jun., 1986), pp. 16-22+43-44
Sharif, Regina (1977) "Latin America and the Arab-Israeli Conflict" Journal of Palestine Studies, Vol. 7, No. 1. (Autumn, 1977), pp. 98-122.
Wirpsa, Leslie (April 7, 1995) "Murder and complicity in Guatemala; U.S., Israel allegedly continue furtive roles in military, politics" National Catholic Reporter
Woodward, Ralph Lee (2005) "A Short History of Guatemala" pp. 150.
