MERIP Media Resource
List, July 13, 2006
AVAILABLE
FOR INTERVIEWS on
the following topics:
- Israeli military
operations in Gaza
ROBERT
BLECHER
Robert Blecher is a fellow
at the Center for Human Rights at the University of Iowa and
an editor of Middle East Report. His current project is a
history of partition in Palestine and Israel. He regularly
works as a consultant with a variety of international organizations
in the Middle East, including International Crisis Group and
the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. He commented
today: "When Israel rebuffed Egypt's peace initiatives
in the early 1970s, Anwar al-Sadat launched the October war
in order to force his diplomatic agenda to the fore. The seizure
of the Israeli soldier by Hamas, Gilad Shalit, can be seen
in a similar light: stonewalled since winning the Palestinian
elections, Hamas launched limited military action meant to
achieve a specific political goal and force Israel to negotiate. The
Israeli response in Gaza created the conditions for Hizballah
to intervene on behalf of besieged Palestinians. But it is
not at all clear whether this gambit can succeed in the face
of Israel's overwhelming military superiority."
OMAR
KARMI
Omar Karmi is former managing editor of the Palestine
Report . He is now Jerusalem correspondent for the Jordan
Times and an editor of bitterlemons.org. He writes regularly
for various newspapers and magazines, including Emirates
Today (Dubai), Fact Magazine (Switzerland)
and Global Knowledge Magazine (Norway). His recent
article for Middle East Report Online , " Gaza
in the Vise ," reports from Gaza.
Background
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Omar Karmi, "Gaza in the Vise," Middle East
Report Online , July 11, 2006. http://www.merip.org/mero/mero071106.html
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